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Day 27 – Start At The End

The Prompt Start a story that begins with the ending, then immediately jumps back in time. e.g. “It all started 12 hours ago.” Think of this as the way someone might shoot a heist movie: a character is being led out in handcuffs and a voiceover says, “It all started 12 weeks ago.” (In a … Continue reading "Day 27 – Start At The End"

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106 – After The Challenge

This week I share some of the prompts from week 4 of StoryADay May 2018, talk about creativity and limits, and encourage you to dive into the community at StoryADay. Also, I talk about drug discovery and wheelbarrows… LINKS Serious Writers’ Accountability Group (SWAGr): https://stada.me/swagr Another new episode of Write Every Day, Not “Some Day”

Day 26 – The Sale

Today’s prompt lets you practice your dialogue and thinking about communicating your characters’ motivations to the reader. The Prompt One character is trying to sell something to another character. . This could be metaphorical: they are trying to sell them an idea. It could be literal: they’re trying to sell them a car.   Leave … Continue reading "Day 26 – The Sale"

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Day 25 – The Moral Dimension

Day 4, Week 4! The Prompt Write a story about someone whose boss is doing something contrary to the main character’s morals. Today I want you to write a story about a character whose boss (or somebody important to them, with power over them) is doing something illegal/unethical. How will your character react?  

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Day 24 – Disappearing Act

This week’s theme is, in part, to encourage you to try out stories that use each of the types of story threads from the MICE quotient. The Prompt Tell a story that features a disappearance This could be an Intrigue/Idea story. At it heart it has a question, or a mystery or a big idea. … Continue reading "Day 24 – Disappearing Act"

Day 23 – Pick A Detail

The Prompt Choose a detail that only your character would notice in this story (This exercise is borrowed from Donald Maass’s The Emotional Craft of Fiction, a book I highly recommend.) Think about your character’s past, so that you know what matters to your character, what background they came from. As an example, I noticed … Continue reading "Day 23 – Pick A Detail"