Novel Kicks Writing Room: Sitting and Listening
Tuesday 25th October 2016: Sitting and Listening.
For today’s prompt, it’s about getting out and about and listening.
When you have a few spare moments, go and take a bus journey or sit in a coffee shop. In fact, any busy area will do.
Try to make notes of what people are talking about. How are they speaking? How do they say things? Try to take as many notes of conversation snippets as you can (but not making obvious you are spying on people.)
Once you’ve done that, make up a story based around some of the dialogue you’ve picked up.
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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Very 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 is not a long story.
Write a short story in a hundred words or less. Subject, characters and setting is your choice but it has to be told in a hundred words or less. If you need some inspiration, there are some prompts below.
Two members of the public are stuck in a lift with a celebrity.
The door at the end of a very dark corridor suddenly opens.
For one hour, you find you can suddenly see and talk to that one person you miss.
by Novel Kicks Writing Room: Observation
Tuesday 18th October 2016: Observation.
Choose any colour. You can pick your favourite but it could be interesting to pick one you don’t like so much?
Now, either walk around your home, outside or take a break around your place of work for up to fifteen minutes. How many times have you seen that colour? Takes notes as you go around if you like.
Once you’re done, write about what you saw in as much detail as you can.
by Novel Kicks Writing Room: Backwards Coming Forward.
Wednesday 5th October 2016: Backwards Coming Forward.
Today’s writing prompt is about writing and starting at the end. Go through your ideas journal and pick a story that sparks inspiration.
Now, begin writing it but start at the end and work your way back. Start with the last line and end with your first line.
Then, once you’ve finished, read it forward.
If you need a little inspiration, try these….
A clown who ends up with his own circus but starts out as a lawyer.
A family who end up living on another planet because they’ve had to abandon their own.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Wedding Lottery
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 involves a wedding lottery.
A system is introduced that means marriage partners are chosen by a lottery.
You don’t meet your spouse to be until the day of the wedding.
Write about one wedding. What happens? What conflict emerges?
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