Write a story and make sure to use all of the following seven words somewhere in it:
GRAVE
WATER
WIRE
READINGS
ECHO
GARDEN
INVENT
Posts tagged ‘ideas’
January 5, 2012
Derbyshire
Tomorrow morning, we’re going to Derbyshire for a long weekend with old friends. There will be lots of opportunity to make notes about a new landscape (see the photo), the interior of a building I’ve never stayed in before (a large place with many bedrooms), and about the ways we spend our time with four small children to hang out with. The notes I make will only be short, a sentence here or there, a short piece of descrition, fragments. Think about ways you can make notes on a new, or on an old experience. Perhaps the notes will be helpful in a later piece of writing.
March 10, 2011
Gotham and Barbara Kingsolver
Gotham Writer’s Workshop – who teach great courses for writers – have emailed in their newsletter three short answers from Barbara Kingsolver to common writing questions.
Q. What is your best method for overcoming writers block?
A. Raise children. You’ll be so hungry for writing time, given the constraints, that you’ll leap onto your keyboard like a racehorse out of the gate, every time.
Q. What is your favorite or most helpful writing prompt?
A: What am I really trying to say here?
Q. What is the most valuable advice you received as a young writer?
A: “Your first sentence should make a promise that the rest of the story will keep.” – Francine Prose
Go to www.kingsolver.com for more from this wonderful writer.
