Here is my weekly round-up of prompts from my daily Tumblr blog. For inventive ways to use writing prompts, click here. Now go write tons with them. #11 A garden is hard to leave. #12 The worst vacation you've ever had. #13 The offer that was so good it couldn’t be refused, and the terrible things […]
You're sitting at your desk, staring at your computer. Maybe the chapter of your current project is up on the screen. Perhaps you don't have the freaking slightest of clues what to write next. Your brain is empty. It's like there's a brick wall between it and what comes next. You simply can't figure […]
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I've started a daily writing prompt blog on Tumblr. However, one of my wonderful readers pointed out that it was impossible to get those posts emailed from Tumblr. So I had a brainstorm: why not do a weekly round-up post of the prompts? And so, here […]
Please welcome guest poster Julie Duffy today. Julie and I connected on Twitter and I'm glad we did! She is a writer and also the creator of A Story A Day–the extreme challenge to write a story every day in May. (And guess what–you can start any time. If you get going now, think how […]
I'm reading two books about writing at the moment, and together they are making my head explode. In a good way. It's exploding with ideas. The first one is called Wonderbook, and it is by Jeff Vandermeer. I'm only at the very beginning of this baby, having just gotten hold of it last week. This […]
I've been writing a lot recently. (On my own projects, I mean. It's one of the ironies of my life that I'm always able to write for clients, no matter what.) And, as always, the more I write, the more I'm able to write. Pour it all out on the page and more keeps coming. […]
We are writers. And writers write. No matter what, we write. No matter if the world seems like it is going crazy or if we're going nuts within, our job is to write. To pour it all out on the page. To be chroniclers and bear witness. And yet. Sometimes this writing, this flinging words […]
I'm a huge fan of free writing ( writing to prompts, when you set a timer and write, not stare off into space, not think deep thoughts, write, just letting your hand move across the page), and I recommend it as a practice all the time. I even have a page on my blog devoted […]
If you're a regular visitor to this blog, you've probably noticed a new tab here. It is called Punch for Prompt, and it's basically a place where you can punch a purple bar and get yourself a prompt. And then another. And then another. A nearly endless supply of them, to be exact. You can […]
It's been awhile since I've given you a prompt in my ongoing Promptitude series, and earlier this weekend I had a brainstorm. (That said brainstorm was on Saturday morning and i'ts now Sunday evening and I'm finally getting around to posting gives you some idea of how busy this weekend has been.) So here's the […]
