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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #18

4 November 2009

Well it’s the start of another dreary autumn week, at least where I am, but that’s all the more reason to stay in and write. Especially if you are doing the NaNoWriMo 2009 challenge written about here. To get you in the writing mood we have the random phrases creative writing prompt today. The idea [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #16

12 October 2009

Today it is once again time to tackle a nice little random phrases creative writing prompt. These type of writing prompts are perhaps the easiest, since so much is already given, that they are a great exercises for those suffering from the so called writer’s block. Anyway, the idea with this type of writing exercise [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #15

2 October 2009

Friday, the end of the working week for most and a wonderful opportunity to do some creative writing exercises, today in the form of random phrases creative writing prompts. The idea here is that I give you a list of ten random phrases and you are to use them in writing a story, poem, or [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #14

23 September 2009

Well it’s the middle of the week and what better way to celebrate that than by doing a nice little creative writing exercise to stretch that writing muscle and/or do away with that writer’s block. Today we have the random phrases creative writing prompts, and the idea behind this type of writing exercise is that [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #13

11 September 2009

It’s once again the end of the working week, but that doesn’t mean that you (or us all) shouldn’t do some creative writing exercises. All the more reason to take some time to nurture our writing, especially if the day job has nothing to do with it. Today’s exercise are once again random phrases creative [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #12

2 September 2009

Once again it is time for a creative writing exercise based on random phrases as creative writing prompts, which are meant to ease you into getting a story out of your head and onto the page. Personally I enjoy this type of writing exercise very much, especially because the phrases themselves usually already have tons [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #10

10 August 2009

Random phrases, today’s creative writing prompts, are a great way to get that story or poem off the ground, since they already represent, sort of, a part of the story. Though not enough that it could not still go any which way. I am certain that if you give ten different people the same random [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #9

29 July 2009

Hopefully you have seen some great improvement in your writing since starting doing these creative writing prompts and if you are new you soon will. Guaranteed. Today’s writing exercise is in the form of random phrases creative writing prompts and the purpose of these is to free up your creativity and get that necessary writing [...]

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Picture Prompts: Tied Off

24 July 2009

Time again for another lovely picture writing prompt. Somehow these seem to me to be the least invasive of the different creative writing prompts in the sense that they don’t impose any words to work with, merely an image. The idea here is to look at the picture and imagine the story behind it, the [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #8

20 July 2009

Creative writing prompts in the form of random phrases are very similar to words writing prompts, but with the added bonus of having more than one given word to work with. Much of the pressure of being faced with an empty page is removed that way. The idea behind this type of creative writing prompts [...]

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