Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: You Find Yourself Back At School
It’s Friday which means it’s time to start writing some fiction.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing flash fiction prompt.
The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can.
Don’t edit, just write. Once you’re done, you’re welcome to share in the comments but there’s no obligation.
Today’s prompt: You Find Yourself Back At School.
After wishing they could go back to school and change the day where things started to go wrong but with the knowledge of life they’ve built in adulthood, your character wakes up and finds themselves in their old childhood bedroom. They are fifteen.
They go to school. Write about a school day in their life that changed everything – they are staring in the christmas show maybe? What do they do differently? Is there something that they misremebered?
Have fun.
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Novel Kicks Book Club: The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Welcome back to the Novel Kicks Book Club.
Who else is excited that it’s finally December? The tree is up, the lights are on. Ot maybe you choose to be a little bit low key for the last month of the year or are simply looking forward to a new year? However you spend December, I hope you’ll join me in our book club.
This month, I had to admit, it was the cover that originally drew me to this title. The book we’re reading is The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale.
The blurb sounds so intriguing and I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the novel.
Anyone can take part in our book club, whether you’ve read this book or if, like me, you’ll be discovering it. You can join us at any point in the month. Like always, I’ve put a question in the comments below to get the discussion going.
See you there!
About The Toymakers –
The Christmas Emporium opens with the first sign of frost . . .
It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of London, there is a place of hope and enchantment.
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Welcome back to the Novel Kicks Writing Room.
For the last Writing Room of November, I have a fun exercise (at least I hope you find it fun.)
The task is to write a story using the prompt sentences below. There’s a twist though. Starting with the first sentence to begin with, set a timer for two minutes. Once that’s done, use the next prompt sentence in your story and set the alarm for another two minutes and so on, continuing the story as you go until you’ve used all the prompt sentences.
For example, these two sentences-
‘I thought I’d cracked the case’ and ‘whatever happens, I can’t let the ducks in.’
I thought I’d finally cracked the case…… write, taking the story wherever you’re inspired to take it whilst setting the timer, once the timer goes off, use ‘whatever happens, I can’t let the ducks in,’ continuing the story yourself for two minutes and so on. Make sense?
So, your prompts are –
‘Oh for goodness sake, I told you to shut the door.’
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Halloween
It’s Friday which means it’s time to start writing some fiction.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing flash fiction prompt.
The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can.
Don’t edit, just write. Once you’re done, you’re welcome to share in the comments but there’s no obligation.
Today’s prompt: Halloween
Your character wakes up on the morning of Halloween and suddenly finds themselves surrounded by their fears.
It could be that they are afraid of clowns? Spiders? Vampires? Fire? A room full of strangers?
Write a piece chronicling a part of their day and how they rid themselves of the problem?
Have fun and Happy Halloween.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Traitor or Faithful?
It’s Friday which means it’s time to start writing some fiction.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing flash fiction prompt.
The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can.
Don’t edit, just write. Once you’re done, you’re welcome to share in the comments but there’s no obligation.
Today’s prompt: Traitor and Faithful.
As Celebrity Traitors has been popular over the last few weeks, I thought it would be fun to put our own spin on it.
Place all of your characters from your current WIP into a castle and place them in a gameshow style situation. Who would be faithful and who not so much?
If you’d prefer to pick a set of characters from another piece of fiction, that’s fine too.
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