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Writing Room: Confessions Prompt

rp_writeanything-300x19911-300x1991-300x1991-300x199-300x1991-300x199.jpgTuesday 9th February 2015: Confessions.

Your character is shown into a room. There is a circular table in the middle the room with six chairs around it. Eventually, five other people are shown into the room. These five people along with your character are told to take a seat. They are each told that they are connected and they need to confess what they have done to the people around them. Carry on the story….

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Writing Room: Helping Out

rp_writeanything-300x19911-300x1991-300x1991-300x199-300x1991-300x199.jpgTuesday 1st December 2015:

Today’s prompt:

Your character works for a secret agency and has a secret identity to match. As a favour, they agree to pretend to be someone’s love interest to help them out at a family gathering and it all gets a little out of hand. What happens? Does the identity of your character get revealed?

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My Writing Ramblings: The Second Week Block

rp_Laura-Book-300x2251-300x225.jpgI’m nearly through the second week of NaNoWriMo 2015. It’s inevitable in a challenge like this that at some point, I was going to lose a little bit of motivation to carry on and eventually my will to live. It happens every year and usually around the halfway mark.

This is why I love the NaNo community. Everyone is so supportive and other people will be having the same thoughts as me (or similar thoughts; mine include locking my laptop in my car so I don’t have to see it and then retreating to my duvet, hiding and not coming out for a few days.)

It’s also usually around now that I begin to question why the hell I put myself through this every year. It’s not as though I am being forced to do this. I could just quit and not get myself stressed.

However, I do this because I love to write, I love the challenge. I love it because some of my best friends also take part and write ins are fun. I do it because I couldn’t imagine my November without it.

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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: A Picture Paints…

rp_friday-300x16411111111111111-300x164-300x1641-300x164-300x1641-300x16411-300x164-300x164-300x1641-300x164.pngFriday 6th November 2015: A Picture Paints…. 

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:

IMG_0933Use the picture for a story. What does the picture inspire? Maybe your character is meeting someone?

Maybe whenever they take a step forward, the horizon seems to stay at the same distance and everything depends on them getting to the other end?

Where is this? Has your character travelled far to be here?

Have they just appeared here out of nowhere and people surrounding them think they are magic or are they scared of them?

Has your character travelled back in time?

What you choose is up to you. Just have fun.

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Writing Room: Changing the Tense

rp_writeanything-300x19911-300x1991-300x1991-300x199.jpgTuesday 20th October 2015.

Today’s Prompt: 

Today is all about changing the tense. Take a page out of your favourite fiction novel. Rewrite the first few paragraphs changing the tense as you go. If it’s past, change it to present and vice versa.

How was it? How has it changed the story. If you want to, try it with a section of a work in progress and see if it helps in any way?

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