Your character wants to cancel on an obligation. Maybe it’s work or helping someone move or helping sneak kittens safely out of enemy territory. Whatever the obligation—what lie does he or she make up to get out of it? If you enjoyed this post, look around, or sign up below ↓ to receive future posts via…
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Writing Prompt: XYZ…the wardrobe malfunction
During an important meeting or presentation (or a date), your character realizes s/he is having a …wardrobe malfunction. What happened and how does s/he handle it? If you enjoyed this post, look around, or sign up below ↓ to receive future posts via email.
Writing Prompt: The Paintings
Patrons in a museum are suddenly cast into the paintings. Where do they go? What happens? If you enjoyed this post, look around, or sign up below ↓ to receive future posts via email.
Shapeshifter movies that aren’t about werewolves
Werewolves are shapeshifters, but not all shapeshifters are werewolves. Shapeshifters is a larger category with other types of transforming creatures within it. (See chart). To show that I am an equal opportunity shifter lover, I am taking this opportunityto bring you a list of shapeshifter movies that are not werewolves as a part of the…
Thursday Writing Prompt: Dialogue Rewrite
Take a piece of dialogue that you’ve written. Rewrite it with one of the characters being from the deep south (US) and the other from Minnesota. What if one character is not a native English speaker? Besides punctuation, what word choices would you change? If you enjoyed this post, look around, or sign up below…
What scares you?
Fear is a powerful motivator …and inhibitor. But one person’s nightmare is another’s thrill ride. I’m not a fan of rats. But, I have friends who have pet rats. How do our fears—and their more extreme counterparts, phobias—define us and the characters we write about? How do we make some fears universal—or at least show how…
Writing Prompt: The Dark Room
A man awakes in a pitch black room with no memory of how he got there. How big is the room? What is the room made of? How does he determine it? How did he get there?
Thursday Writing Prompt: Thank You for Not Smoking
Your character has just quit smoking. How does s/he deal with the nic-fits? What possible scenarios come from the irritability?
Werewolf Wednesday: Do you know this werewolf?
So, each Wednesday, I like to celebrate the werewolf (or wolf, depending on my mood). Heading into Halloween, I’m posting images of some of my favorite werewolves as their human characters. Know this one?
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