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Creative Writing Ideas: NaNoWriMo 2009 Kicks Off

2 November 2009

Today we’ll take a little break from writing prompts because I have some very important news for you. I should have written and published this post before, I quite agree, but it is better late than never, right? Anyway, I am of course, as the title already gave away, talking about the National Novel Writing [...]

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Creative Writing Tips: How to Write a Novel

19 October 2009

This is probably a question many aspiring novelists ask, especially at times of severe writers block. I know I asked it. A few months ago I did lots and lots of searching for the surefire magic formula that would tell me how to get going, how to push through my block, start writing, finish a [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #13

7 August 2009

Being given a set of random words from which to write a complete story is another great way to get rid of that writer’s block and get some great stories onto the page. Being faced with a blank piece of paper or a blank virtual document on a computer screen can send anyone to go [...]

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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: 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: 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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