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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #37

8 June 2011

Time for this week’s creative writing exercise! Today it is in the form of a story starter sentence and, despite appearances, this exercise is also very well suited to poets. All you must do is simply take the meaning of the sentence and apply it to your creation. Before we get started, though, I would [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #37

1 June 2011

Today it’s time for the random words creative writing prompts. This exercise is really simple and really effective and lends itself equally well to all types of writers-from poets to fiction writers and everyone in between. All you have to do is let the words below inspire you to write. Before I give you the [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #31

25 May 2011

Another week has gone by and it is time for a fresh creative writing prompt. Today it is time for the random phrases writing prompt. These are fun and slightly easier than the words prompts, in my opinion. They also lend themselves equally well to poets as well as writers. But before I get to [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #36

11 May 2011

All right, here’s a new creative writing exercise for you to try your hand at. Today we have the story starter sentence creative writing prompt. Writers, you should use the sentence in your story somewhere, while poets can just take the meaning, the emotion or the feeling from it and work it into their poem. [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #36

4 May 2011

Today I have a creative writing prompt in the form of random words for you. This one is simple and sweet. Just use the words listed below in a poem, short story or piece of flash fiction. And remember, when doing this exercise, set aside a time and just write. Thirty minutes should be sufficient, [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #30

27 April 2011

Are you ready for this week’s creative writing prompt? Today you can try your hand at the fun random phrases on. You know the one, I give you a set of phrases that alone don’t mean much, but could, when strung together, form a great short story or poem. But before we get to this [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #35

13 April 2011

All right, another week has passed and it is once again time for a good old creative writing prompt to help you start writing. Today I have the story starter sentence for you, which works equally well for poets as well as for writers of all kinds. But before I give you the sentence though, [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #35

6 April 2011

Hope you had a wonderful week, full of writing successes big and small. To get you writing for another week I have another writing prompt for you today and it is the random words kind. You know, the one that lends itself very well to both poems as well as prose. Before I give you [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #29

30 March 2011

Another Wednesday, so time for another creative writing prompt. Today I have the fun, but also challenging, random phrases creative writing prompt. The main idea here is that I give you a set of randomly selected phrases and you must somehow weave these into your story, poem, or piece of flash fiction. But before I [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Story Starter Sentence #34

16 March 2011

Seems like the site was offline for a bit during the last couple of days and I apologize for that. But today it is time to get back into the swing of things with another creative writing prompt in the form of a story starter sentence. Before I give you the sentence though, I would [...]

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