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Tell The Story Of A Painting

The Prompt

Write the story of a picture

Tips

*You can pick a favorite picture, or use one of these examples

You can change the time-period, to make it easier to write. Pay less attention to the setting, and more

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Inspired By Real Events

There’s nothing quite like real life for providing weird and wonderful story ideas.

The prompt

Write a story ripped from the headlines

You can use your favorite new source or go to the front page of Wikipedia to grab a …

Twitter-Length Fiction

Today’s story will not be as quick as you think it is, but it’s still a great way to rescue your writing streak.

The prompt

Write a Twitter story

Twitter fiction must fit into only 140 characters.
You do not …

Rewrite A Story From Week One

This is the first of your Rescue Week prompts!

Prompts

Rewrite your First Person story from Week One

Try writing a story from a different in a different point of view. You could use third person limited, in which you …

The Sidekick in the Tale

Day 14

For the past two days we’ve played with protagonists and antagonists/villains. But these are not the only characters who appear in a story.

The Prompt

Write a story that includes a sidekick

Tips

secondary characters play a …

Your Villain As A Mirror

Today were going to do something similar to —- but different from —- yesterday’s prompt.

Today is the turn of the antagonist or the villain.

The Prompt

Write a story in which the antagonist or villain shows the reader …

Your Flawed Protagonist

Today we’re moving on to another element of story: your protagonist

The Prompt

Write a story with the flawed protagonist

Tips

This is kind of a cheat because every protagonist should have a flaw, but today we’re going to focus

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Paint A Vivid Setting

And now for something completely different!

The Prompt

Write a story in which the setting is key

Tips

Choose a setting for your story based on a real place that you know intimately. You can change details, of course, but …

Write A Hansel & Gretel Structured Story

Today we’re looking at the third of my ‘Life Changing Moment’ writing prompts (find the first one here, the second one here)

The Prompt

tell a story using the Hansel & Gretel story structure

This story structure is …

The Ugly Duckling Story Structure

Continuing our look at story structure, today I have a structure based on the story of the ugly duckling.

The prompt

Write a story based on the Ugly Duckling structure

The story of the ugly duckling is one when you …