Your character is on his or her way home from work. A torrential rain is flooding roads and cars getting trapped everywhere. The character’s children are home alone. What does he or she do to get to the children? If you enjoyed this post, look around, or sign up below ↓ to receive future posts via…
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Motivation—Just When You Need It
Ideas are exciting. Bringing ideas to fruition, however, can be daunting. Writing is as much keeping motivated as it is a creative process. For most self-published authors, writing is also an act of love. Seldom does the work pay the bills or breed rewards of oodles of praise or reviews. So how does one keep…
Writing Prompt: …the meteor
A meteor streaks across the sky and then brightens the horizon behind a stand of trees. What does your character find when s/he investigates? If you enjoyed this post, look around, or sign up below ↓ to receive future posts via email.
Writing Prompt: The Last Minute Cancel
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…
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.
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…
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?
Thursday Writing Prompt: The Hiker
A hiker deep in the woods comes across a skeleton dressed in his/her exact (and uncommon) outfit. How is it possible?
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