Writers Book of Matches: 1,001 Prompts to Ignite Your Fiction

by Fresh Boiled Peanuts

Designed to help writers find inspiration anytime, anywhere, The Writer's Book of Matches is both muse and exercise partner for beginning and professional writers. This dynamic title: Is jam-packed with 1,001 creative prompts - more than any other book on the market Provides a spectrum of prompts, including situational, dialogue oriented, and point-of-view changing exercises Shares dozens of sidebars containing humorous and inspiring quotes from famous authors about the writing life, idea creation, and writer's block With appendices that show writers how to adapt the prompts in new and exciting ways, this book of writing matches will ignite writers' creative fires for years to come.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Reference

252 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Renee]

This book is perfect to pull out when I want to write, but don't have a topic.

[Kim B.]

The best writing idea book I've encountered in possibly my whole life, if only because it was exactly what I was looking for at the time.

[Art]

Lots of good ideas for writing.

['Nathan Burgoine]

I use this book when I'm well and truly stuck. For the most part, the prompts get me pondering, get some words on the page, and then I'll go back to the project in question that had be stymied with a renewed sense of "I can do this."

The flip side? I've also had three prompts from this book turn into pieces that I ended up getting published as short fiction in anthologies. So even though I didn't go into using this book from the point of view of it creating complete stories I could then market, it happened by accident when I saw some calls for submission that ended up suiting perfectly stories I'd already written from the prompts.

[Tommy]

This book delivers exactly what it says - prompts. Ideas, sentences, scenarios, quotes, etc to launch the imagination for a story.

I have to say, they are very original prompts, ranging from comical to devastating. I've yet to chase any of them into the rabbit hole, but look forward to launching a handful of stories based on the premises in the book, just for the pure exercise of doing so.

Even if you're not a writer, the prompts are fresh enough to be a great conversation starter.

[Emily]

This is the perfect companion for any writer or aspiring writer. It's full of helping hands, to get creativity flowing. Some prompts are very short and some are more complex, requiring involvement of perhaps 3 elements in your writing piece (of course it's up to you how you use the prompt). I've used this many, many times and come out with short stories I'm very pleased with.

[Aaron Steinmetz]

If you are a writer, you need this book. If you think you are a writer, you need this book. If you aren't a writer but wish you were, what's wrong with you? Go get a real job and quit these self-destructive tendencies.

[Kate]

Great writing exercises.

[Abigail Singer]

I'm always searching for a good prompt or two to get me started in writing. This nifty little book has 1001 prompts to chose from and I use it in my weekly writer's group.

[Amy Saunders]

An excellent book to get the ideas flowing.

[Bree]

i love this. it is a must have. i use it every day and i cant get enough of it.
when i first got it, i marked all my favorites in differnt colors of highlighter
lol

[Dana Jerman]

Mostly for adults, but good for getting kids to write as well.

[Amanda Williamson]

More like the writer's book of kindling.

[Melissa Kline]

This book is a mixed-bag of fun writing prompts. I bring it to every writing group! Very useful and helpful!

[Laura Guilbault]

A lot of good writing prompts in here, good for daily exercises.