Novel Kicks Writing Room: Different Voices
Today, I thought we could look at distinguishing one character from another.
Making my characters sound different to one another is one of the things I am finding the hardest to do as a first time writer.
I came across this exercise via The Writers Digest and thought that it sounded quite interesting. (Visit their website if you’d like to explore more of their prompts and writing exercises.)
Write a couple of pages of conversation where one character talks in say, four word sentences and the other in ten word sentences.
For example, ‘I can’t do this.’
‘Yes, you can. You are being ridiculous. Just be brave.’
‘It’s just too hard.’
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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Following the Leader
It’s Friday which means it’s time to start writing some fiction.
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: Following the Leader.
Your character wakes up and finds themselves in a strange village.
There are four other people with them and no one seems to have met one another before.
Someone appoints themselves the leader of the group whilst you all try to find a way out of this village.
On first inspection though, there doesn’t seem to be a way out.
by Novel Kicks Writing Room: Word Association
Happy Wednesday all. For today’s writing group, I thought we’d work from a prompt using word association.
This is one of my favourites as you can never tell what it will inspire.
Pick up the book that’s closest to hand. Go to page one hundred.
Make a note of the first and last words on the page.
Now, on a sheet of paper, put each word at the top and divide the page into two columns.
Use the timer for five minutes each side and using each word as a beginning, write down as many words as you can think of.
Once you’ve done that, write a story by using the first two words you took from the book to start with and then incorporating all the other words as you go.
by Novel Kicks Writing Room – Dear Me
I often wonder what my future and past self would tell me if I were to receive a letter from them.
What advice would I give myself? What would my ten-year old self talk about that is different to my older self?
I find this thought fascinating.
That is why I have chosen this exercise today. Write a letter to you, from yourself ten years in the future. Also write a letter from the point of view of your ten-year old self.
Obviously the advice and content would be slightly different but are there recurring themes?
Set the timer for about ten minutes for each one. Try not to edit, just write.
Now repeat the exercise but for one of your characters.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Talk to Animals?
It’s Friday which means it’s time to start writing some fiction.
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 if I could talk to the animals?
You have been stuck inside for a few days now. You are on your own with only your pet for company.
One morning, a voice you don’t recognise brings you out of sleep.
Your pet is on the bed with you but there is no one else there.
That is until you hear the voice again.
You turn toward your pet…
Continue the story.
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