Writing Prompt – Under The Weather

Today’s Story Spark/Writing Prompt is an example of how you can use events from your real life (I was really under the weather, as you can hear).

There are lots of events we’d rather not live through in our lives. Why not exorcise the demons, by inflicting them on our characters.

Things going to easily for your character, as they scale the rockface to rescue the kitten? Make them do it while battling a nasty head cold! Boss cut back your hours? Throw the same challenge at your protagonist and let them act out your wildest revenge fantasies or let them be the best, most resourceful version that you hope you will be. Inspire yourself!

Keep writing!

A New Year’s Eve Challenge

Do this before midnight…

Decide.

That’s it.

Decide that you are a writer.

(Decide: from the Latin deciderer- ‘to cut off’.)

When you decide to do something your brain stops worrying about “if” and starts working on “how”. And that’s how things get done.

Let’s cut off all the prevarication, the shilly -shallying, the ‘maybe I can wriggle out of the hard work by pretending I’m not really that bothered about being a writer’, the ‘maybe someone else will write the book my audience needs, and I’m ok with that’. Leave all that in the year that is ending.

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Schedule A Holiday Date with your Inner Writer

Just a quick note today to wish you happy holiday season (I can’t pick one. Celebrate them all!)

And to encourage to you pick one way to stay connected to your writing this month, so that you don’t go into the New Year with a creative hangover.

Some suggestions:

  • ​Join the free 5-Day Challenge ​(five tiny tasks to see you through to the new year. We start on Dec 27, this year.)
  • Read: How To Make The Most of ​People-Watching Season​
  • Learn: take the ​Holiday Story Workshop​ (or request/give it as a gift)
  • Listen: to this​ January podcast episode​ in which I lament not staying connected to my writing over the holidays (and learn from my mistakes!)
  • Make a plan to give yourself the gift of some small intervals of time, this season, where you will leave the hustle and bustle behind and just be with your imaginary friends (no pressure to add new words. Just commune with your story worlds!). Let us know your commitment in the comments, here.

A Writer’s Life

What to write, how to write it, and where to talk about it…

What’s life really like as a writer? Well, the answer is as varied as the number of writers you ask, but for me, this is how things are going: Listen in, you might be inspired!

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