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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #5

16 June 2009

Yesterday we had a story starter sentence as a creative writing prompt and today we have many…so to speak. What I mean is that today’s creative writing exercise is made up of random phrases, which you must integrate into a story somehow. The idea behind this writing exercise is to use the given phrases to [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #8

11 June 2009

Today’s creative writing exercises is made up of a set of random words that you must incorporate into one complete story. Alternatively you might consider writing a short short story, a flash or a piece of micro fiction for each of the given words. Your choice really. The aim of this writing exercise, as it [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #4

8 June 2009

Just a simple random phrases creative writing prompts exercise today, since it is Monday and it is difficult enough to start a brand new working week, without the added hassle. The idea behind this type of creative writing exercise is to write a story, poem, flash fiction or whatever from a set of random phrases [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #7

29 May 2009

Today’s creative writing prompt is again in the form of random words, but with a twist. Instead of writing one long piece from the set of words, like you are used to, you should, in this creative writing exercise, write one very short story from each of the words. By short I mean what some [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #3

26 May 2009

Today it is again time to free write a story, poem or flash fiction piece using a set of predefined, given random phrases as story triggers. This creative writing exercise allows for a lot of creativity and not that much planning as the story just sort of unfolds from the phrases and everything is tied [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #6

18 May 2009

Just a quick little creative writing exercise today, since it is Monday, the sun is out, and I am in the process of migrating this site to a new web host. But I am not advocating that you neglect your writing routines.

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #2

15 May 2009

Time again for some random phrases as creative writing prompts to get you to write that story, poem, flash, scene or whatever else you might be working on or want to be working on or are dreaming on working on. Like I said already, writing a story from a set of given phrases is perhaps [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #5

10 May 2009

Well, a few days ago we had random phrases as creative writing prompts and today we revert back to just random words. It is Sunday, Spring is finally here and perhaps we should all be outside recharging ourselves in the sun and not spending the time cooped up inside writing. But here is an idea…why [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #1

7 May 2009

One of the best creative writing prompts ever and certainly the first type of creative writing exercises that I personally came in contact with were writing prompts in the form of randomly chosen phrases or words from which you must then write a complete story. My first flash fiction piece, well first after a long [...]

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Journal Prompts: Observe and Describe

27 April 2009

Today’s journal writing idea is probably one that you’ve heard before. I know I have, and plenty of times. Hence I don’t even know who to attribute it to, but suffice it to say that Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald were already doing. And it involves getting out of the house, which is also [...]

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