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Fiction Friday
Which three things would your character like to try?
Fiction Friday: 28th february 2014.
List three activities that you could have your character doing. It could be anything from sky diving to a road trip from one end of the country to the other. Once you have your three things, pick one. If you are working on something at the moment, use your main character and write from the point of view of your character whilst they try this activity. If you’ve not got a character, open the book nearest to you and pick a name from there.
Write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going. Once you’re done, don’t edit. Just post.
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I'm Laura. I started Novel Kicks back in 2009 as I wanted a place to discuss books and writing - two loves of my life. As someone who has anxiety, these two things give me, and I am sure countless others, a much needed escape.
There is a monthly book club, writing exercises, prompts, reviews, author interviews, competitions and guest posts. I cover many genres and I hope there is something for everyone.
I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.
There is a monthly book club, writing exercises, prompts, reviews, author interviews, competitions and guest posts. I cover many genres and I hope there is something for everyone.
I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.
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I can’t believe I’ve not taken part in this before now!
Here goes. Character is Lizzie from my WIP The Man of My Dreams. My mind can’t think of anything she’d like to try now, so I’m going to go for something really boring – she wants to try a restaurant in London – The Breakfast Club.
I’m meeting the girls there, and so excited, but now, because of the meeting running over, I’m going to be late. I look at my watch, it’s already 18.40, and we were supposed to meet at 18.30. Hopefully they won’t kill me, but it’s the third time we’ve met up in a row that I’ve been late.
Work is starting to get to me. I guess everything is at the moment with everything going on at home. Nathan still hasn’t found a job, so always seems to be on edge. I feel like I’m walking on egg shells every time I’m in the same room as him. I’ so glad to be going out tonight – even if it means we’ll probably have an argument about me spending money unnecessarily. Well sod him, I have to have a life too.
It’s another 5 minutes before I get here. The place is noisy and heaving – it’s obviously a Friday night in Shoreditch. There’s no one at the door, so I walk straight through, looking to find Em and Sal myself. I walk the perimeter of the restaurant one and a half times, before I see them at a booth by the window. Booth if I can call it that, the chairs are benches, and the tables are little more than picnic benches. I kiss the girls and they pour me a glass of wine. As I take my coat off, I look round at the restaurant, when I walked it, I was too busy looking for Em and Sal to see the restaurant. It’s quirky – very Shoreditch. There’s plants everywhere, a bike, tiny tables with uncomfortable looking chairs, and posters and pictures everywhere. I like it. I just hope the food is good, I’m starving!
And back to Helen. This is the first thing I’ve written for AGES. Like months, seriously. If I think about it too much, I’ll get too scared to post it, so I’m not going to read it back, I’m just going to post it… Eek!
This is great. I want to know what happens next. I kept meaning to post yesterday too.