Today we have a guest prompt from aspiring-to-be-published writer and StoryADay participant, Cat Lumb. Thanks, Cat! The Prompt Your character wants to find the source of a strange noise they can hear. Tell the story of how they find out what that sound is… Cat Lumb started her blog in 2011 as means to be [...]
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[Writing Prompt] Copycat Story
Today’s prompt is adapted from one of the most popular segments of the Warm Up Writing Course that I run here as an online course (and a home-study version). The Prompt Write A Copycat Story, based on one of your favorite short stories by another writer Tips Take a story by a writer you really, really admire [...]
[Write On Wednesday] At The Gym
Your writing prompt is: Write A Story Based Around A Set Of Characters From A Gym (Class)
[Writing Prompt] Write A Compelling Opening
Want to bore your readers and ensure they never get past your first paragraph? Write your opening as it were stage directions: describe a character or a room or the light or the hills… YAWN! It’s a familiar trap and we do it for a good reason — we’re trying to create an atmosphere or [...]
[Writing Prompt] Word List
A silly and simple word-list prompt today: The Prompt Write a story that includes the words Enflame, nugget, jingle, spelling and flight. Make it short, make it long, but make it happen! Go! And when you have written your story comment on this post and let us know how it went.
[Writing Prompt] Ageism
Today we’re going to take a look at a character from the perspective of age. The Prompt Write About A Character In A Different Age Group By “different age group” I mean either someone who is not the same age as you or someone of an age that you don’t normally write about. Also, you [...]
[Writing Prompt] Cross Dressing
Today (and by the way, Day 25?! You’re still turning up and giving this a shot on Day 25? You amaze me!)…ahem. As I was saying. Today we’re going to try a little cross-dressing, just for fun. The Prompt Write A Story From The Perspective of the Opposite Gender …and if you’re in the habit [...]
[Writing Prompt] Fanfic
Yet more stealing! After stealing from actors on Friday and songrwiters yesterday, today I’m just going to advocate just plain old ripping off your favourite authors today. The Prompt Write a Fanfic Story That’s it. Steal from your favorite writers, screenwriters, people in your writing group, me, whoever. Tips Don’t break any ‘rules’ of the [...]
[Writing Prompt] Dialogue Attributions
We’ve been focusing on dialogue – from realistic to stylized. Today we’re going to work on the thorny issue of dialogue attribution. Should you say “he said” or “he whispered seductively”? How about neither? The Prompt Write a story that is dialogue-heavy but features no dialogue attributions at all. You know what this looks like, [...]
[Writing Prompt] – Time
Write a story that hinges in some way on time: the passage of, warping of, misperception of, freezing of, measurement of, gadgets for tracking, etc.
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