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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: Random Words to a Story #11

17 July 2009

It’s the end of the week and time for some weekend fun and possibly some getting caught-up with our writing exercises. Today we have random words creative writing prompts and the idea behind these is that you are given a set of ten words which you must utilize to write a story, poem, prose poem [...]

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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: Random Words to a Story #10

8 July 2009

Today we again have a creative writing prompt in the form of random words, only this time instead of just a few words we have many. Instead five we have ten. This should make for longer stories and poems and thus stories of a broader scope. The idea behind this simple and effective creative writing [...]

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Creative Writing Exercises: Create Your Own Character

1 July 2009

Time for a creative writing exercise today, since we really have not had one of these for a long time. Today’s exercise finds it’s way into practically all creative writing textbooks, which only means that it is a great exercise and can really help you write more believable characters. Essentially this writing exercise deals with [...]

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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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