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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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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #7

10 July 2009

Ok, so I know that it is Friday, but that is no reason not to do some writing exercises now is it? if anything, Friday is the perfect day to do some creative exercises, since tomorrow is Saturday and most of you probably don’t have to get up early and go to work. Doing creative [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #8

30 June 2009

Today we have another quickie, but goody. The story starter sentence creative writing prompt or story trigger. The idea behind this great creative writing exercise is that you are given a random sentence which you must write a story, poem, flash, or what ever around. You can use this sentence as the first sentence of [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #6

29 June 2009

Well, it’s been a long weekend so I hope you are ready to do some serious creative writing exercises today as well as for the rest of the week. To ease you into it all, I have a nice little random phrases creative writing prompts exercise for you today. The idea behind this exercise is [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #7

22 June 2009

Today we again have a creative writing prompt in the form of a story starter sentence for you to hone your writing skills with. The main idea behind creative writing prompts in general is that they are supposed to trigger your imagination and flood you with inspiration to write a story or poem. One of [...]

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