Posts tagged ‘writing prompt’

April 18, 2012

Photo Prompt

I love these photos from yahoo news.  Use the image to inspire a 500 word story…

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April 12, 2012

Reuse This Line

I was going through a draft of a book I’ve been working on, which I then left lying around on my desk. One line from the draft is visible from underneath the pile of papers now above it:

Go back to bed, Violet.

If I were a different writer, writing a different story, that line could lead to an entirely different story with different characters, plot and motivation. Why don’t you take the line and work it into your own story? See where it takes you…

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April 10, 2012

A Long Short Night

Taking a break from the house, from the blank page, from the city, I took the family to Pavelich Farm bed and breakfast in Kenaston, Saskatchewan last night.  We arrived around 5, after a work day as the BnB was only forty minutes away from home.  We got back at 9.30 this morning – hardly away at all in terms of time at the desk.  But spending a night in a new place, walking on the frosted grass, eating in a bright sunny kitchen and hearing stories about generations of farming has given us all a new way of approaching the day today.  Is there a way you can renew your view? It doesn’t have to be an overnight stay, even walking round the block in the other direction might give you an insight or two…

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