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: Turn to the Right.
Write about the thing you see when you turn immediately to the right. Write down as much detail as you can.
Is it a person or an object? What happens if this object suddenly begins to start moving by itself?
Give this object an actual name.
Tuesday 14th June 2016: Getting Down To Detail.
Today’s exercise: Write about five hundred words about yourself, a friend or someone you don’t like. It can also be about a character in progress. Write about physical appearance, likes, dislikes, hobbies etc.
If you can, once you’re done, try to then leave your writing for twenty-four hours.
Once you’ve returned to it, re-read it. Edit it down. Cut it in half to two hundred and fifty words. Only leave in what is necessary.
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 a situation from real life experience or from somewhere online like a news article or maybe take a section of your favourite story.
Look at the story from a different angle. Write it as though something in the story happened differently. For example, what if it were the white rabbit just sat there reading and minding his own business outside his burrow in Wonderland and Alice walks by. The rabbit then follows her into our world. What if the villain is really the good guy and vice versa?
Tuesday 7th June 2016: You’re the boss.
Today’s prompt: Write about a day in your life if you were running a country. What would you do if you were in charge for a day?
Write from 8am until 23.59pm. Write in the first person.
Include as much as you can about your surroundings, how you feel, who you work with and what you have to deal with.
What kind of leader are you? Continue reading
Wednesday 30th March 2016.
Today’s prompt is about using pictures. Look through the internet (Pinterest and Tumblr are good for images.) Find pictures that inspire or interest you.
Taking each one in turn, note down what you like or don’t like so much about the image. What drew you to it and whether it inspires anything.
Does anything inspire a story? Using the image that you’re drawn to or inspires you the most, begin a short story.