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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 Words to a Story #27

30 December 2009

Before we lose ourselves in the New Year celebrations we do have time for one more creative writing exercise, now don’t we? Today it’s an easy random words creative writing exercise and it should be a breeze to get through it. The goal is to string together the ten words that I list for you [...]

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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: Story Starter Sentence #25

21 December 2009

What better way to start off yet another week with a story starter sentence creative writing prompt? Given the low temperatures outside, at least where I am living, it is best to just stay in and devote some time to writing with perhaps a little reading to brush up on how other people are doing [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #26

18 December 2009

To finish the week in the right way and especially to finish it strong we have one last creative writing exercise to do. This time it is the random words creative writing prompt which is especially useful if you are writing poetry, since it perhaps lends itself a little better to that form of creative [...]

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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: Story Starter Sentence #24

9 December 2009

Today we have a lovely writing prompt in the form of a story starter sentence. Now I know that you must all be very familiar with these by now, but just in case you’re not, the idea behind these type of creative writing prompts is that I give you a sentence that you must then [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #25

7 December 2009

Well, it’s the start of another wonderful winter week and even though there are many presents to buy, trees to decorate and snow to shovel we can always find some time to do some creative writing exercises. Writing regularly and not just when we feel inspired to is what separates those who are serious about [...]

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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: Story Starter Sentence #23

30 November 2009

As you are most likely aware, it is the end of November and the start of the new week. Some of you are probably also aware that it is the end of this year’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and I do hope that everyone reading this who participated also won, or at least made [...]

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