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✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT ✐ESPEJOWrite a story from the point of...

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT✐

ESPEJO

Write a story from the point of view of a character who looks absolutely average. The catch? This character is terrified of their reflection. Double catch? The person they see in their reflection looks nothing like them.

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"People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction."

“People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.”

- Paul Theroux

striderfatigue:*Puts brief case down on the table and takes off glasses very seriously* “So about...

striderfatigue:

*Puts brief case down on the table and takes off glasses very seriously* “So about that AU we discussed that one time.”

"After my husband died, I could not write much— I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted..."

“After my husband died, I could not write much— I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes— not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.”

- Joyce Carol Oates

✶ DAILY CHARACTER QUESTION ✶You Call This… ‘Power...

✶DAILY CHARACTER QUESTION ✶

You Call This… ‘Power Armor’?

Write a scene where your Antagonist obtains a very powerful, and dangerous, piece of technology.

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"Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel,..."

“Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.”

- Harlan Coben

So, in my big project, I've got a group of 12 kids, and I've felt like they're a realistically diverse group, but um, I was going back through my character plans, and... none of them are straight. Am I straining the bounds of realism too much? I don't real

Hello there, dear anon~

You seem to be in a pretty similar situation as that other Anon who came by here last weekend— but I think there’s a bigger point that needs to be addressed— and it deals with the nasty, nasty, word you have in your question.

Realism.

Realism.

Realism is a problematic thing. The concept of ‘realism’ is not objective, it varies from place to place, from person to person, and it changes with time. Yes, there are statistics out there— but how far down the rabbit hole do you w...

"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."

“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”

- Cyril Connolly

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT ✐GLORIOUS DAWNWrite a story from the...

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT✐

GLORIOUS DAWN

Write a story from the point of view of a character as they witness a sunrise. The catch? This character is a colonist in a new planet that promises to be the ‘New Earth.’

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"I’m writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write..."

“I’m writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn’t pay any attention at all. Sometimes it’s me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it’s not me at all.”

- Lou Reed