Writing Room: Another Galaxy Writing Prompt
Wednesday 26th August 2015: Another Galaxy.
Today’s prompt: Your setting is another galaxy where there is a small cluster of planets ruled by a council made up of one person from each.
Some of the planets have a human population and others are not. Your character is part of the council’s secret intelligence agency and you get information that could spell disaster.
Write a minimum of 1,000 words but names, the amount of planets etc is up to you. Have fun. Continue reading
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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Mirrors
Friday 21st August 2015: Mirrors
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your character is cleaning a room. The relationship they have to that room is up to you whether it’s their room or a relative or friend or enemy. When cleaning the mirror, you find something hidden behind it. Begin with the sentence, ‘it fell to the floor.’ Carry on the story.
by Writing Prompt: Parents
Tuesday 11th August 2015: Parents.
Today’s prompt: When going through a parent’s things, you find a letter to you from them. The circumstances surrounding this are up to you. Could the parent still be alive and the letter unearths something prematurely? Who knows. Try and write a minimum of five hundred words.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: CSI Writing Prompt
Friday 7th August 2015: CSI
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your character, male or female is a crime scene investigator and they have just got to a botched crime scene. What happens next?
by Writing Room – Secrets Writing Prompt
Tuesday 4th August – Secrets
Today’s Prompt: Use the following line as your first sentence and then try to write for a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 1,500 words. You should have at least three characters in your story but what they are doing is up to you.
‘We had all kept the secret but now there was no going back.’
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Childhood Occupation
Friday 31st July 2015.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Think of the occupation you wanted to do when you were a child. Now give your character that occupation. What if your character woke up one morning and found out he could talk to animals or was due to go up into space or was a fireman? Have fun.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Write it in a Letter
Friday 24th July 2015.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Tell a love story in a letter. It could be a current love, a long lost love or a relationship between elderly relatives or friends. It could be a series of letters. It’s up to you.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Solving Problems
Friday 17th July 2015.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s Prompt: Whilst on a second honeymoon, a devoted family man solves a ten year cold case.
by Writing Room: Swapping Bodies
Tuesday 14th July 2015: Swapping Bodies
Today’s prompt: One day, your character wakes up in someone else’s body. Who is it they’ve woken up as? Where have they woken up? How would their life change? Write across one day and about the experience your character has in this new body? Do they try and go to see the people in their old lives and how do they react? Do they manage to get back to their own body?
Try to write between 500 and 1700 words.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Four People
Friday 26th June 2015.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s Prompt: Pick four people (it could be anyone.) Your character is having them around for dinner. What would the conversation be about? Do they all get on? Write this entirely in dialogue.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Clown in Training
Friday 19th June 2015.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: After loosing a bet, a clown in training robs a series of banks. All goes to plan until the third bank. Continue the story.
by Writing Room: Take a Letter
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post an exercise. Once you’ve written your piece, feel free to post it in the comments box below for discussion. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today’s exercise: Take a Letter…
Pick a character from a current work in progress or if you’re not working on anything at the moment, pick a character from a favourite book. Get them to write a letter. It could be to their nemesis or it could be a letter themselves to be opened in the future or it could be to their past selves. What would they say? What does it reveal about your character or the plot of your story. Could you use it in either what you’re currently writing or use it to begin a new story?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Randomness
Friday 29th May 2015:
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Randomness. Place all of these random things into a story where your main character is a man named Mike. The items you need to put into your story are: A set of scales, eyes, a magnet, a house, a tent, insects, a compass, a magic wand and happiness (or lack off.)
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Short Story
Friday 1st May 2015: Short Story
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Write a story based around the following prompt: ‘Able to hear others’ thoughts, a TV presenter goes on a blind date.’ What happens? Try to aim for at least five hundred words.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Myths
Friday 24th April 2015: Myths
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Write a story that has elements of mythology in it. From what time period is up to you.
by Writing Room: Varying View Points
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post an exercise. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below for discussion. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today’s exercise: Varying View Points.
Today, it is a short story (minimum of 600 words.) The scene is a doctor’s surgery. It is 10 o clock in the morning. The decor of the room is cream and there are leaflets and posters up on the wall.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Reversing
Friday 27th March 2015: Reversing
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: What would happen if you woke up one day to find that you were ageing in reverse? You weren’t getting older, you were getting younger. What would you do first? What would happen? How would it end? Can you stop it and would you want to?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Switching
Friday 20th March 2015: Switching
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Think about something that has happened to you. It could be something strange, unusual or funny that happened to you as a child, or a teenager or something that happened last week. Once you have something, write about it from the perspective of someone else. You could also think of a situation someone you know has been in and put yourself in their shoes.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Back in Time
Friday 13th March 2015: Back in Time.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt:
You are accidentally transported back to the year of your birth. How you are dressed and how you look makes you stand out. Write about your arrival. What happens? How do people react? Then someone finds your smart phone and it’s new, magical technology that no one has seen before. What happens then?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: 500 Words
Friday 6th March 2015: 500 words.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: The story, characters and theme are your choice but today, your challenge is that the whole story needs to be 500 words or less.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Fly on The Wall
Friday 27th February 2015: Fly on the Wall.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall for a conversation you want to hear? Well, you are. Who do you hear? What do you hear?
by A Moment With Jacqueline Harvey
My writing day varies depending on where I am in the world. When I’m at home in Sydney I usually work in my study. It looks out onto two sunny courtyards and across to the upper storey of a beautiful Queen Anne style home. Some days if I’m editing I might walk up to one of the local coffee shops and work there – I like to be around the hum of people depending on what stage of the writing process I’m at.
I start my day with a skinny latte but try to limit myself to one coffee, so after that I’ll have one or two cups of tea.
I’m usually at my desk by 8am and often work until 6pm. I’ve only been writing full-time for two years and one thing I’ve found problematic is my lack of movement! I have to make sure that I get up and walk every half hour or so. To that end I investigated a brilliant standing desk arrangement last year. It has a large flexible arm to hold the computer screen and keyboard so you can adjust it to a sitting position and then push it up so you can stand. The negative impact of sitting for long periods is frightening, apart from the inevitable weight gain, so I hope the standing desk will work for me.
by Writing Room: Party
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. It could be a first line, a suggested exercise to work on plot or characters or it could be about writing about a situation. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today’s prompt: Your character is about to enter a party where they don’t know anyone. Using only dialogue, they meet two new people – one of which they like a lot and one they instantly dislike. Where this party is, the age and gender of your character is up to you. Write between 500 – 750 words.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Unlucky For Some?
Friday 13th February 2015: Unlucky for some?
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt:
It’s Friday 13th. It is seen as unlucky for some. Is it unlucky for your character? Is your character superstitious? Write about something that happens to them today and how they deal with it. Are they usually lucky but then experience bad luck or do they get a reversal of fortune on Friday 13th where they suddenly become lucky?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Celebrity Dinner
Friday 30th January 2015: Celebrity Dinner
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt:
Pick four of your favourite celebrities and invite them to dinner. Write about the evening. What happens? Do they all like one another? Does it end well or in disaster?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Reunion
Friday 23rd January 2015: Reunion
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You’ve been invited to your school reunion. It will be the first time you’ve seen this group of friends since you left and things didn’t end the way you planned. Write about the reunion.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Resolutions
Friday 2nd January 2015: Resolutions
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: New Year Resolutions. Have your character make a new year resolution list. Include things that ordinarily they would avoid. Then pick one or two and write about it. How does it go? What happens? Do they make a anti resolution list instead?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Christmas Lunch
Friday 5th December 2014: Christmas Lunch.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You have a mix of people coming to dinner. Whether some if all of them know one another is up to you but write about the meal. What happens?
by Writing Room – Game Show
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today’s prompt: You are forced to be a part of a game show where peole watch for fun. To survive, you have to win and that comes with tough decisions. What happens to you if you win? What happens if you loose? Is everything as it seems?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Unreal Becomes Real
Friday 21st November 2014: unreal becomes real.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Recall a story that you’ve been told that at the time you didn’t believe. Now write about it as though it was true and set it in modern times.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Memory Loss
Friday 14th November 2014: Memory Loss.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You wake up in a strange hotel room. You appear to be alone but the room is messy and there were signs of a party. You don’t remember anything. You spot a digital camera on the bedside table. On it is a photo of you with a mystery person. This is the first clue as to what happened the previous evening. You begin to try to work out the chain of events….
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Treasure Hunt
Fiction Friday
Friday 7th November 2014: Treasure Hunt.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: An envelope gets put through your door. There is no indication as to who it is from. The only thing inside is one small piece of paper. Written on it are the words, ‘You should go where you swing high to see the world from a different perspective.’
You are invited onto a mysterious treasure hunt. What happens next after you find this clue?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Ghost Stories
Friday 31st October 2014: Ghost Stories.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s Prompt: It’s Halloween and it’s your chance to write a ghost story. It can be set in any era and anywhere. Is there a haunted house? Do you see a ghost? It can be anything you like.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Going Back
Friday 24th October 2014: Going Back.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Have you ever wished you could go back to a time and change it but going back knowing what you know now? After you fall over and bang your head, you find that you’ve gone back in time to an important point in your life – a crossroads for you and you have the chance to alter the outcome. Where do you go back to and what happens? It can be based on fact or you can completely make up the situation (if you are working on a character, where would they go back to?)
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Oh Crystal Ball
Friday 17th October 2014:
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt..
You have to go on a quest to find an ancient crystal ball that has the powers to save the world. This artefact has the power to show the future. Is there anything else it can do?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Mysterious Competition
Friday 10th October 2014: Mysterious competition.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You’ve had a notification that you’ve won a competition. The prize is £10,000. The only thing you have to do to claim it is to be at the address listed at a certain time. When you arrive, there are five other people waiting; people you’ve never met before. What happens?
(Write up to 1,200 words.)
by Writing Room: It’s Not The End.
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today’s prompt: This is not the end….
I have read many novels where I have got to the end and I have felt sad that it’s over. I have grown so fond of the characters that I want to know what happens to them beyond the end. Until recently, I had wondered what would become of Bridget and Mark, what happens to Harry between school and the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, how would Jem and Ralph get on after Ralph’s Party ended.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Waiting Room
Friday 3rd October 2014: Waiting Room.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your setting is a train station waiting room. Whether it’s part of a busy station or a quiet small town station is up to you. Your story should centre around three of the people waiting in the room. Why are they there? Have they met before or are they total strangers? Why are they all waiting for a train? Where are they going? The appearance of your characters is up to you as well as gender, age and occupation.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Building Suspense
Friday 26th September 2104: Suspense.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Carry on from this sentence (max word count, 1,000.) Build the suspense the further you get into the story.
‘I don’t know what will happen if you flick that switch. I have never tired to find out what it does.’
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: A Document
Friday 19th September 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You find a document about your life. As you begin to read about the current day, things from the page start to happen in real life. Continue on the story. What happens next?
by Writing Room: Photo Prompt
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today’s prompt: Pathway.
Photos can be great for inspiration. What does this photo make you think about? Does it inspire a story? Using this photo, make a list of all the words and themes it makes you think of and then write a story between 500-1000 words.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Parents
Friday 12th September 2014:
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: ‘The last time I saw my mother was fifteen years ago.’ That is your first sentence. Who your character is and where you go is up to you.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Back to School
Friday 5th September 2014: Back to School.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Back to School. Most children are going back to school this week. The character you’re writing about is a man called Bob and he wakes up to find that instead of being 44, he’s back to being 14 years old (but aware of his life as an adult.) What happens? How does he react and does this change?
by Writing Room: Hi.
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today, we are introducing ourselves to our characters.
As writers, we spend a lot of time with the people we create in our imagination but how well do we know them? How much you know your characters will depend on what kind of writer you are and what planning you do before you begin. Today’s exercise is about asking your characters questions about themselves and getting to know them better.
Ask three of your main characters the five questions below. You can choose to either share your answers in the comments box below or simply tell us whether this exercise helped you and why.
Ask your characters the following:
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – Late, Late, Late.
Friday 29th August 2014: Late, Late, Late.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your character is running late for a meeting. Why are they late? What consequences are there for the character because they are late? What happens? Do they make the meeting? Have you ever been late for an important meeting? If so, use it as inspiration.
by Fiction Friday: Nursery Rhymes
Friday 22nd August 2014: Nursery rhymes.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Pick a nursery rhyme (it can be any one you want,) and write a story using it as inspiration for a story. The maximum word count is 1,000 words.) You can choose whether you tell it from first person or third person point of view and it’s your choice as to which character within the rhyme you use.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – It’s Not All In Your Imagination.
Friday 14th August 2014 – It’s not all in your imagination.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your character can be male or female and any age over 18. They have always had an active imagination. What if they woke up one morning to find that their imagination was coming to life? Whatever they thought of appeared in front of them. It’s great at first but if course, like with everything, there are consequences. What happens?
by Writing Room: Colours
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today, we’re looking at using colours.
Write a short story. Begin your first sentence with a colour. Then continue to use a colour (different one each time,) at the beginning of each paragraph. Try to use as little description as possible. Try to use dialogue as much as you can.
Write up to 1,000 words.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Reunion
Friday 8th August 2014: Reunion.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You haven’t seen your family for a while. You are all forced to reunite for some reason. Why haven’t you seen them for a while? What happened? Who is in your family and what is the dynamic?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – Doing Things Differently
Friday 1st August 2014 – Doing Things Differently.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt – What would you do if you could go back and change something from the past? Would you do things differently? Take a character you’re currently working on or, if you’ve not got one, choose a character from a favourite novel. Re-write part of their story but this time, change a decision they made and get them to do something differently. What happens?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – Undercover
Fiction Friday
Friday 25th July 2014 – Undercover.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You are a police officer. You’ve not been one for long and you’ve been partnered with someone new (who you don’t know well.) Your first assignment means that you both have to go undercover and be convincing in your role in order to catch a criminal. Where, why and you is up to you.
by Fiction Friday – 250 words
Friday 18th July 2014 – 250 words.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: 250 words. Using the prompt ‘They couldn’t figure out what to say to each other,’ write a story that is no more than 250 words. What are these two people going to do? What are they going to say to next?
by Fiction Friday – A Letter
Friday 11th July 2014 – A Letter.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt:
You find a letter. It could be from anyone – from an old friend, from a younger self. It could be a letter written to your grandmother years before. It’s up to you. Make your piece up to 500 words if you can. In it, there must be some kind of revelation or secret revealed.
by Writing Room – Showing, Not Telling
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today, we’re looking at showing, not telling.
I came to the party. Kelly was there. I said hello. She looked at me.
Rewrite these sentences to show the following: the character is happy to see Kelly, is anxious, fancies Kelly and finally, not expecting to see Kelly.
by Fiction Friday – Lottery Fever
Fiction Friday
Friday 4th July 2014 – Lottery Fever.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Invent a character who has just won the jackpot on the lottery. What happens next? What does he/she do when he/she finds out? How does he/she handle the win? Who do they tell and how does it affect their life?
by Fiction Friday – Time Travel
Friday 27th July 2014
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt – Time Travel. Pick one of the three suggestions below then write a fictional story beginning with the line ‘as I walked toward the door.’
Is your character a person of that era? Has your character got there using time travel?
The day Elizabeth I found out she was going to be Queen.
1914 – the beginning of the First World War.
The day you were born.
by Fiction Friday – A Fly On The Wall
Friday 20th June 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: A fly on the wall. Many of us have said that we wish we could have been a fly on the wall on a conversation we want to hear. Write about a time where you did get to overhear a conversation. What was said?
by Writing Room – Research
Writing Room is our online writing group.
We post a prompt. Once you’ve written your piece, post it in the comments box below. Anyone is welcome to take part and it’s an opportunity to post work plus give and gain feedback.
Today’s prompt is all about researching. Many writers find this a valuable thing when it comes to beginning their novel or story. There is no rule as to how much you need to do before starting your own work but it is valuable to at least know a little about what you’re writing about and getting a balance between fact and imagination in relation to your work.
by Fiction Friday – Lucky?
Friday 13th June 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Lucky. Friday 13th is unlucky for some. Write about a character who has always had bad luck except for Friday 13th when they seem to have a large reversal of luck. What happens? Is it all too much at once?
by Fiction Friday – Trapped
Friday 6th June 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Trapped. There is a power cut and as a result, your character is stuck in a bank vestibule with a stranger. What happens? How long are you there?
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