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Four writing prompts: Abandonment

Good stories center on the clashing of characters��� goals and motivations. Sometimes a character���s goals and motivations arise from the seeking of acceptance. Here are four writing prompts for stories that center on conflicts over abandonment.

Man vs. man
Two people with trusts issues because they���ve been abandoned by others suddenly find themselves in a situation where they must learn to have faith in one another. How do they overcome their internal resistance to trust and the other���s efforts to prevent a connection?

Man vs. society
What happens when a person who leaves his hometown and strikes it rich comes back willing to spend money? Will some people question why he abandoned them in the first place and be distrustful of his motives? Or will his money squelch any suspicions? And why did he return anyway?

Man vs. God(s)
A teenager or young adult whose parents died in a senseless accident now feels that God has abandoned her. How is she able to regain her faith? Or does the abandonment lead to a personal enlightenment about what being human means?

Man vs. himself
A son has not talked to his father in years (or a daughter-mother) after the parent left the son���s mother many years ago. The father, his years rapidly cathcing up with him, reaches out to his son. Can the son, after years of anger and bitterness, find the ability to forgive his father?

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Writing prompt: Open story with foreshadowing

Suffering from writer���s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: Foreshadowing is another tried-and-true way of opening a story and can be very useful if you���ve already brainstormed or outlined the story���s premise and characters. For example, if the book is about how far one has to go to defend themselves and others they love, you might write, ���I���d never really thought about how I would kill someone though I���d certainly given plenty of thought to who I might knock off.���

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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose���not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. - Anne Sullivan Macy

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It's never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. - Ray Bradbury

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It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. - Madeleine L'Engle

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde

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Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. - Pyotr Tchaikovsky

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.