Exercises for writing should stimulate your imagination in an enjoyable way. Yet, we’ve all heard the stories about writers locking themselves away for months as they wrestle with writer’s block, eyes bleeding into an empty bottle of whisky and fingers worn to the bone, surrounded by thousands of pages of torn papers, or, should I […]
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STORY STARTER IDEAS
USING STORY ENDINGS FOR STORY STARTER IDEAS. You don’t have to start at the beginning of a story. Some writers enjoy the rewinding mystery of following a story from its ending back to the beginning. There are many ways to do this and no limits or rules to influence how you get there either. Try […]
Narrative Writing Prompts
Narrative writing prompts are prompts that trigger creative ideas and help you form new ideas. Developing the ability to trigger new ideas for stories is essential for writers. The quickest way to learn this skill is by doing it – so think about the sentence below: He didn’t tell anyone where he was going. It […]
What Are Writing Prompts?
Writing prompts are words and phrases that serve to trigger your imagination and help you form new ideas. For example: The body was still warm. I bet an image of a body appeared in your mind. Did you wonder about the body? Maybe you began to concoct a story around the image? Well, that’s how […]
WRITING EXERCISES
Each of the following writing exercises describes a dramatic situation and each one is designed to appeal to our visual senses. The images we see in our mind will depend on our own personal experiences, including experiences we have of similar situations in books or films. WE ARE UNIQUE We are all unique and our […]