Writing Prompt: Be a Bore
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything, says Voltaire. Is that what you want in your writing?
Writing Prompts
Writing Prompt: Relationship
Do you treat your writing like a job or like a relationship? Take a tip from Jessica Strawser on how you might improve that.
Writing Prompt: What Do You Want?
Do you know what your hero wants? Does she want power, love, money, revenge? Does he want freedom, success, joy, approval?
Writing Prompt: Tears
When was the last time you cried? Set a timer and write about that for 20 minutes.
Writing Prompt: Sellout
Joan Didion says that writers are always selling someone out. Who are you selling out?
Writing Prompt: No Happy Ending?
What if your manuscript avoided the happily ever after?
Writing Prompt: Misbehave
Oscar Wilde wants you to misbehave. You have 20 minutes.
Writing Prompt: Fall into Grace
Grace. “You can’t work or earn your way into it,” says Rick Bass. “It comes to you, unbidden.” But does it, for your protagonist?
Writing Prompt: The Mount
This is the allee at The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Would your character think it’s peaceful? Or terrifyingly empty?
