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Creative Writing Ideas: Creating Your Own Writing Style

3 August 2009

This creative writing exercise is very old and often used to help writers gain a firm grasp on their own style and even voice, while it also helps writer’s decipher what works in fiction, and poetry and what does not. And all this is achieved by studying closely the works of other writers or rather [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #11

31 July 2009

Once again it is time for writing a story from just a sentence. The idea behind this type of creative writing prompts is that you are given a random sentence from which you should then write a whole story. This is another great way to get over that writer’s block, which is so often only [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #12

27 July 2009

Since it is Monday it is probably best to ease ourselves into another working week and what better way to do that than by a lovely and simple random words creative writing prompts exercise. The goal here is to produce a piece of writing from the given list of words below. All of the words [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #10

22 July 2009

Enough with the words and phrases, give us a whole sentence to work with, right? OK, fine, today it is time for the story starter sentence. With this creative writing prompt, the idea is that you are given a complete sentence which is supposed to inspire you to write a whole piece of writing around. [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #11

17 July 2009

It’s the end of the week and time for some weekend fun and possibly some getting caught-up with our writing exercises. Today we have random words creative writing prompts and the idea behind these is that you are given a set of ten words which you must utilize to write a story, poem, prose poem [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #9

13 July 2009

It’s the start of another week and what better way to commemorate that than by having a story starter sentence writing prompt to get things moving. The idea behind this type of creative writing exercises is that you are given a simple, or not so simple, sentence that you must use to write a story [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #10

8 July 2009

Today we again have a creative writing prompt in the form of random words, only this time instead of just a few words we have many. Instead five we have ten. This should make for longer stories and poems and thus stories of a broader scope. The idea behind this simple and effective creative writing [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #8

30 June 2009

Today we have another quickie, but goody. The story starter sentence creative writing prompt or story trigger. The idea behind this great creative writing exercise is that you are given a random sentence which you must write a story, poem, flash, or what ever around. You can use this sentence as the first sentence of [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #9

24 June 2009

Today it is once again time for some random words meant to jog your imagination and get you inspired enough to write. The idea behind this type of creative writing exercise is that you are given a set of words which act as story triggers in that they are supposed to inspire a story or [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #7

22 June 2009

Today we again have a creative writing prompt in the form of a story starter sentence for you to hone your writing skills with. The main idea behind creative writing prompts in general is that they are supposed to trigger your imagination and flood you with inspiration to write a story or poem. One of [...]

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