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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #15

9 September 2009

It’s once again time to see what kind of story, flash or any other piece of writing a sentence can bring forth. The ida behind this type of creative writing exercise is that you are given a first sentence and you must then use it grown an entire piece of writing out of. This type [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #11

19 August 2009

Random phrases are a great way to get a story or a poem written, since they already represent a sort of backbone to it, and all you essentially need to do is fill in the blanks. With phrases this is probably most simple since so much is already there. So basically the idea behind this [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #12

12 August 2009

The idea behind the story starter sentence, which comprises this creative writing exercise, is that you are given a single sentence that you must then somehow incorporate into a story. It can be the first sentence, somewhere in the middle, or the mere meaning behind it can become the meaning behind the whole story. Though, [...]

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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: 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 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: 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 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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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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