Posts tagged ‘character’

January 23, 2012

Image Prompt

Use this image to get you thinking about character.  Why is this floor so messy?

Who has left it like this?  Why is the window not closed properly?

What do you, as the writer, imagine is happening outside the frame?

May 16, 2011

Writing Prompt

Yahoo has an article on unusual phobias today.  Have a look and then either imagine a character who suffers from one of these phobias, or – being more inventive – make up a new phobia like at the end of the article, and have your character suffer from that instead.

May 8, 2011

Writing prompt

This mother’s day, imagine a character who is meeting their mother for the first time.  Write the dialogue between the two, thinking as much about what is not said as the words they actually exchange.