The summer doldrums are here—and I’ve been fresh out of ideas. For anything. I haven’t posted on this blog, besides putting these newsletters up, in a couple of weeks. I was going great guns on Medium, posting a lot, and then I suddenly stopped. I couldn’t think of anything to say in either place. And […]
Many moons ago, I used to offer a ton of writing prompts. I wrote a tumblr blog called Inventive Writing Prompts (nobody ever said I was good at names, oh and I just checked and it is long gone). I’ve written a writing prompts book (please go look at it because nobody else ever does). […]
I am definitely a with nuts person. You? Your character? Share in comments. And find more prompts here.
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And here you have them: the last set of writing prompts for September. Hope you’ve enjoyed them, and stay tuned for news of the release of a writing journal of prompts soon! –Not in this lifetime. –If ever I should leave you…. –What are the parameters of your main character’s world? Is he an international […]
September is Writing Prompt Month! Actually, I have no idea if that’s true, but it sounds good, doesn’t it? Here are your prompts for the week: –What a fool he was. Yet still she was in love with him. –Rise and Shine! Bright, shiny new day! –Oh God, do I have to? –They argued all […]
I’m in a prompt kind of mood (or at least I was when I wrote this post, before I left for France) because later on this fall I’ll be coming out, with a wonderful co-author, with a writing prompt journal that you will be able to hold in your very own hands! Exciting, no? But […]
Here we go again with our weekly collection of prompts from my daily Tumblr blog. Enjoy and write a lot, will you please? It would make me happy. #357 Use the words umbrella, metal and sunlight in a sentence. Now use that sentence as a prompt. #358 He couldn’t understand a word she said. […]
We are coming up on a year of writing prompts–isn't it amazing what a passing fancy of an idea can produce if you set your mind to it? Plans are afoot to compile the entire year of them into a book–that's a little project for August, before I take off for Europe. But in the […]
