Preperation.

If you know me outside of the Story A Day challenge, you know I’m a planner.  I’m prepared.  I come with everything but the kitchen sink, and often I’ll have a substitute even for that!  (Heck, when my dad had a stroke I was able to pack everything I needed for a week long hospital stay in under 15 minutes, food and drink included! [[dad is okay]])

Not everyone is like me.  I have a very dear friend that refuses to do planning – well, except for this challenge I issued her, but that is different.  Some people are like this friend; you don’t want to know where you’re going, you want the thrill of the unknown!

I like the unknown.  But I like to be efficient.  So I am conducting some prep work tonight for tomorrow.  Oh man, it DOES kick off tomorrow!

Well, I already know what my first story will be.  And maybe even the second.  After that?  Well, it gets a little hazy.  That’s why I’m going to go back through all my old links from when I did prompt generators and revisit those.  I’m also going to start carrying around my Once Upon A Time card game.

Sites I’ll be using that have prompts or useful story information:

• Writing Excuses – a podcast that happens every Monday.  They give prompts after every show.
• Gail Carson Levine’s blog.  She’s an amazing author with lots of really useful information.  She also closes each blog with a list of prompts that work on whatever her blog topic is.
• Major Enterprise – narrative prompts for science fiction
• Flash Fiction Prompts – super short, but to the point
• Writing.com fiction prompts
• Language as a Virus used to be a really big fav of mine, haven’t visited it in a while. I’ll probably use it at least once during May.
• Resources for Creative Writers
• Buzzle. com Creative Writing Prompts
• CreativeWritingPrompts.com
• Possibly the best for last: Adam Maxwell’s Fiction Lounge

And now, I probably need to go outline something……