Social media is a great way to connect not only with your readers, but with agents, editors and fellow writers as well! The popular #AmWriting hashtag is coming up on its fifth anniversary, and it's still going strong as...
This past Monday was World Limerick Day, a poetry appreciation day celebrated every year on the anniversary of Edward Lear's birthday. The limerick is one of the best-known poetic forms due its accessible and humorous nature. Whether the subject...
Creative writing has its ups and downs. Some days, the ideas seem endless and it's next to impossible to get them all down on paper. Other times, however, your mind seems to be completely blank and no matter what...
For the past four years, Justin Samgar has been writing and performing poetry on demand for media, brands and events with his own company, PoetryPusher. These poems and lyrics are used for columns, event reports, special occasions, shows, product...
We all know how it feels to lose an argument. Just awful. That’s why petty disagreements can drag on and on, as neither side is ready to concede and be viewed as the loser. Getting the last word is...
Our Peek Inside… series takes a look inside people's personal journals to celebrate their imagination and inspire others. Send us an email if you have a project that you would like to be featured.
This month, Jennie shares with us...
Tonight we celebrate World Book Night, a UK-based initiative designed to encourage a love of reading in our increasingly digitised age. From book giveaways to "read-ins," there are numerous ways to celebrate World Book Night. Here at Paperblanks we thought...
The Haiku Foundation has named April 17th as a day to celebrate the haiku art form. While we've probably all heard someone struggle to fit an entire poem into seventeen on (almost like a syllable), this type of poetry...
Our Peek Inside… series takes a look inside people's personal journals to celebrate their creativity and inspire others.
This month we talked to Caroline about the evolution of her journalling over the past eight years:
I started journaling when I was...
It's the first day of April, meaning we had all better be extra vigilant about stories that seem too good, or absurd, to be true. In honour of this day of fools (and fooling), we've compiled a list of...