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All writers have those days when inspiration just seems to fly out the window–when the blank screen becomes a sadly accurate reflection of the sorry state of your imagination and you start your fourth game of FreeCell in ten minutes. Or you have a day when the current writing project just sits there like an ugly pile of February slush–all memories of the lovely white snow it started out as are gone, and all it’s good for is creeping in that one small hole in your boots and making your life miserable, wet and cold.
Some people call this writer’s block. I call it a temporary pause in the creative process–I call it a lot of other things, too, but I’d have to change the rating on this book if I printed them.
The writing prompts in this book are for those days.
But they’re also for the days when you just want to play with words. They’re for those times when you need to clear your brain of the messiness of your day and warm up before tackling the project that means so much to you. They can serve as prompts for your daily writing journal, too. Trust me, if you break them down into their individual components, you’ll have enough to last a year! Maybe you could share one with your writers’ group one night and enjoy the completely different stories that emerge from the same prompt.
How you use the prompts is up to you, but I encourage you to use them for whatever purpose works for wherever your writing is right now.
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Here are some samples:
1. Get away from the keyboard and write with pencil/pen and paper. This is the way you
first started to create. The connections are still there. If you already write
in longhand, change your paper, use colored pens, or change your location.
2. Think of a story that might go with one of these possible opening sentences:
Mondays never go well.
How can someone get lost twice in one day?
Is that a threat?
I definitely didn’t like the way those lights were flickering?
So young.
3. Use these bare bones of dialogue to create a scene between two people. Add setting,
character, action, emotion to fill in the gaps.
The sun’s almost down.
Won’t be long now.
Why do we have to wait until it’s dark?
Ask him when he gets here.
Are you ready?
No. Are you?
4. Free write around one, some or all of the following: running, wondering, hiding, challenging, threatening
5. Do holiday festivals make you happy, or do they bring back sad memories, or do
they do both? How do you deal with your holiday feelings? How do holidays
affect your character?
Heather E. Wright 