Your Prompts and Tips
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Prompts:
1. Write a few pages set at a local café where a character overhears a conversation that they can’t pretend they didn’t just hear.
2. Write a few pages about a character with an extreme phobia. It can be one we know, like the fear of heights (acrophobia) or leaving the house (agoraphobia), or one you make up (like someone who is literally afraid of their own shadow).
3. Every year during early fall, half a million monarch butterflies migrate south. Write a few pages about a character who elects to embark on a long journey of their own.
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Tips:
1. Know the rules before you break them! Or as Dorothy Parker once said, "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to tell them to quit now, while they’re happy.
2. The best writing creates a sensory experience: it employs most or all of the senses, including sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. This allows us to fully envision ourselves in a story. Put in an effort to evoke more senses that just sight in your story.
3. A great writer knows when to rest. After all, nothing gets those creative juices more than living your life and exposing yourself to new experiences.Brainstorm different activities you can use your Sundays for that might liven up your storytelling.
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TO DO LIST:
Add tasks to your sortable list, then revel in checking them off.
SCRATCHPAD:
Cache your gems as they fall in this always accessible place.
PRIVATE JOURNAL:
Reflect on your process — good, bad and ugly — in your dated diary.
TRACKING:
Measure your progress with key writing metrics, automatically,
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