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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: 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 #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 #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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