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"Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers."

“Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.”

- Piers Anthony

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT ✐SHOW, NOT TELLERWrite a story from the...

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT✐

SHOW, NOT TELLER

Write a story from the point of view of a wizard as they create a new spell. The catch? Although the spell achieves the desired effect, it also comes with a… handful of side effects. Double catch? The wizard has no way to know the side effects until it’s too late.

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"Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the..."

“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn’t write!”

- Margarita Gakis

✶ DAILY CHARACTER QUESTION ✶I Was Born For ThisWrite a scene...

✶DAILY CHARACTER QUESTION ✶

I Was Born For This

Write a scene where your Antagonist has to battle (either physically or mentally) someone who is far stronger than them.

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"If you let conditions stop you from working, they’ll always stop you."

“If you let conditions stop you from working, they’ll always stop you.”

- James T. Farrell

I constantly hear that characters come alive when you're writing, and that they are the ones who end up taking the lead of the story and most of the times you don't realize that they're taking you where THEY want. But... that doesn't happen to me? And I'm

Hello there, writerly friend~ ♥︎

I know where you are coming from. Right now, before the story even begins— I can feel this certain pull when I think about my characters. it’s a strange sense of certainty, like the light of a torch inside of a dark tunnel. I don’t know where i am going, but I trust that the characters will take me there… and they always do.

The thing is, I didn’t start like this.

Back when I first started writing, I used to roll my eyes at the writers who claimed that they had n...

"Sometimes it’s helpful to remember that every writer sits down to a blank page and struggles..."

“Sometimes it’s helpful to remember that every writer sits down to a blank page and struggles with their writing. And even the best writers have suffered their share of rejection.”

- Jade Tyler

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT ✐FIVE MORE MINUTES, MOMWrite a story...

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT✐

FIVE MORE MINUTES, MOM

Write a story from the point of view of a character who wakes up covered in dirt. The catch? This character is inside an open grave. Double catch? This character supposedly ‘died’ several weeks back, and now someone is digging them out of their so-called ‘grave.’

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"Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice."

“Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.”

- Phil Cousineau

"Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the...

"Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

This is a pretty interesting video!If you have 19 minutes to spare I say you should give it a spin. It’s a very insightful look into the idea of the ‘genius’ and I can say that it made me look at things from a new point of view...