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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #27

12 March 2010

Well, it’s Friday and time for another creative writing exercise. Today we have random phrases and the idea with these, as you must already know, is that I give you a list of ten randomly chosen phrases, which you must then string together into a story, poem or flash. Pretty easy, really, so I suggest [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #26

10 February 2010

Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #26 Today it is time to use some random phrases as creative writing prompts that will help us write great stories and poems. By now you know how it works, I’m sure. I give you a list of ten randomly chosen phrases and you must then weave [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #25

22 January 2010

To end the week, we have a random phrases creative writing exercise. As you know, these are great for getting that writing practice in, as well as for dispelling writer’s block and getting back to creating. Remember, allow yourself at least thirty minutes for this exercise and only go back to edit it after you [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #24

6 January 2010

I hope that you have all successfully completed the first writing exercises of the week because, guess what, it is time for another. Today we have the random phrases creative writing prompt and the idea here is that I give you a list of ten random phrases and you must connect them into a story [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #25

4 January 2010

I do hope that you all had a wonderful holiday, but it is time to get back to work. And by work I primarily mean writing. To ease into the new year and into the new week, we have a nice story starter writing exercise today and these are just a wonderful tool to stretch [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #23

23 December 2009

I know that it is the Christmas season, but I also hope that by now these writing prompts and exercises have gotten you into a more steady and regular writing habit and that you have also noticed some benefits of such a habit in terms of your writing being more consistent and such. Well to [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #22

14 December 2009

It’s the start of another week, at least the working part of it and I bet you’re excited about that. I, for one, am and very much so! To continue with the good habit of writing regularly we have the random phrases creative writing prompt and the idea here is that you must try and [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #21

2 December 2009

Time for that midweek creative writing prompt and today it is of the random phrases kind. The idea here is that I give you a list of ten randomly chosen phrases that you must work to somehow connect into an entire story, poem or some other piece of creative writing. But it is not really [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #20

23 November 2009

Well it is the beginning of another week and time for a fresh start on doing some creative writing exercise. If you are, like me, participating in the NaNoWriMo challenge then you are probably finding that you do not have quite as much time for other things which includes doing writing exercises. I understand, it [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #19

13 November 2009

As the end of the week treat we have a nice random words creative writing prompts exercise. This type of writing prompts are certainly one of my absolute favorites, mainly because you are already given almost whole sentences which are, by default, better for inspiring entire stories and poems by themselves. Random phrases are also [...]

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