Your Prompts and Tips
Some free resources to help you write better and achieve the success you deserve
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Prompts:
1. Flip the common symbolism of rain on its head. Instead of having it symbolize sorrow, write a few pages about a character who radiates joy on a stormy day.
2. Most people go to the beach during the summer, but going to the beach when it’s cold is a completely different experience. Write a few pages in which a character decides to take a wintertime trip to the beach.
3. Write a few pages in which an aspect of a character’s life correlates with increasing warm weather. For example, as temperatures rise, so does the number in the character’s bank account. How hot will it get?
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Tips:
1. Whether it’s between a mother and daughter, two long lost friends, or an old man and his pet iguana, relationships are a dynamic part of any story. As you write (and read), keep in mind how all the different relationships in any given story drive the plot forward and raise the stakes.
2. Nothing is worse than reluctantly dragging a pen across paper. To improve your output, you have to focus on those things that motivate you to sit down and write. So, how can you feel energized to write? In your Will.Power Notes, make a list of action steps you can take to get ready for your next writing session.
3. Whether a story ends on a cliffhanger or with a tidy resolution, it’s worthwhile to think about what life is like for the characters after. It reveals how much we understand them. Do you think some of them would resume life as normal? Would others approach daily happenings drastically differently?
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SCRATCHPAD:
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PRIVATE JOURNAL:
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TRACKING:
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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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