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		<title>[Prompt] May 18 &#8211; The Loner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 04:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This prompt is inspired by &#8216;plot patterns&#8217; from James Scott Bell&#8217;s Plot &#38; Structure. Your prompt today revolves around a protagonist who holds him/herself apart from the rest of their society. Perhaps they are an anti-hero, perhaps a loner, perhaps an introvert in a family of extraverts. Make something happen to tempt/force this person out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Prompt] May 17 &#8211; The Chase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s prompts are all inspired by &#8216;plot patterns&#8217; from James Scott Bell&#8217;s Write Great Fiction &#8211; Plot &#38; Structure. Write a story in which your protagonist is being chased by someone or something. If you choose to show what/who the hero is running from, make sure that pursuer has a vested interest in catching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Prompt] May 16 &#8211; Love Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the nine plot patterns highlighted in James Scott Bell&#8217;s Plot &#38; Structure is: The love story. (A billion romance readers can&#8217;t be wrong!) You don&#8217;t have to write a traditional romance to be writing a love story. There&#8217;s a love story embedded in almost every story you read or watch. From Homer&#8217;s Odyssey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Host a Writing Sprint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://storyaday.org/?p=1910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having trouble getting started with your writing today? Why not host a writing sprint? WHAT IS A WRITING SPRINT? A writing sprint is a focussed block of writing time. Ideally you announce it to the world and invite others to join. It&#8217;s usually pretty spontaneous. A writer announces that they&#8217;re doing a writing sprint at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Prompt] May 15 &#8211; Fairy Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 04:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you like the Disnified Happily Ever After versions or the grim Grimm originals, fairy stories are a great source of inspiration for a writer. You can rewrite the tales with a modern twist, or a funny one, or you can simply take the morality-play form and use it for your own story. I come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re A Writer, It&#8217;s What You Do &#8211; An Interview with Author James Scott Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we have an exclusive interview at StoryADay.org with James Scott Bell, the #1 bestselling author of the writing book Plot &#38; Structure, and thrillers like Deceived, Try Dying, Watch Your Back, One More Lie and many more. He stopped by StoryADay.org to talk about the importance of writing routines and practice &#8212; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Prompt] May 14 &#8211; Fish Out Of Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 04:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last week&#8217;s character focus, this week&#8217;s prompts are going to focus on different plot archetypes. First up: the fish out of water story. This ties in nicely with the focus on character, since the fish out of water story lays a great emphasis on the characters &#8211; either the alien character, or the ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Prompt] May 13 &#8211; What Your Character Wants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 04:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. -Kurt Vonnegut A concrete way to ensure that you are writing a story &#8212; not a scene or a character sketch &#8212; is to make sure your character wants something. Give your hero a want or a need, then move them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Prompt] May 12 &#8211; Other Than Human</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 04:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WRITE ABOUT A NON-HUMAN CHARACTER Can you write a non-human character without making it react like a human? How would a table/tree/robot/alien think? How would it speak? How would it react compared to the reactions of someone born and raised in the West in the 21st Century? Can you write a truly non-human character? Go!]]></description>
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		<title>[Prompt] May 11 &#8211; Delayed Appearance</title>
		<link>http://storyaday.org/prompt-may-11-delayed-appearance/</link>
		<comments>http://storyaday.org/prompt-may-11-delayed-appearance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 04:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie"TheAdmin"Duffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DELAY THE APPEARANCE OF THE MAIN CHARACTER Sometimes it&#8217;s a problem to create enough suspense in a short story to keep the reader engaged. An interesting way to do this is to delay the appearance of your main character until quite far into the story. This follows on from yesterday&#8217;s prompt where you kept your [...]]]></description>
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