Write about a secret. Either a secret you hold, or write from a fictional point of view.
You can take your personal experience and write it as fiction.
If you want, change the gender, age, details of the main character.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
Okay, friends. . . you heard The Lady . . . Write!
From Marlene: Don’t keep your story bottled up inside you. Write it out.
Don’t know what to write about? Check out the prompts on The Write Spot Blog. Choose one. Set your timer for 15 or 20 minutes and Just Write! You can also find writing prompts here.
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If you could live one day without consequences, what would you (or your fictional character) do?
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Today’s prompt: Evening.
Hmmmm. . . I wonder what you will come up with for this freewrite? I look forward to your writing about “evening.”
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keep going.
— Christina Baker Kline, interviewed by Alicia Anstead in the October 2014 issue of The Writer Magazine.
Or, as Dory sings in Finding Nemo, “Just keep swimming. . . swimming. . . swimming. . . ”
At some point in your writing life, you may think your writing is no-good, awful, horrible and no one would want to read it.
Join the Ark. Most writers, I think, are in that boat at least once.
Take the advice of Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train, “Breathe, focus, keep your head down and keep going.”
Click here if you want prompts to jumpstart your writing. Click on “Comments” on any of the Write Spot Blog posts to read inspirational writing.
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What do you want?
Set your timer and write for 15 or 20 minutes. See what comes up for you.
If this prompt is too “open” or vague for you, how about this:
What do you want to do today? If you could do anything you want. . . what would you like to do today?
You can answer for yourself, or as your fictional character would answer. This might be a fun way to get to know your fictional character(s) a little deeper.
Above all, have fun with this prompt!
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Using the same scene you wrote about for Prompt #108, write from the other person’s point of view. All inner thought, motivation and drama come from the secondary character’s point of view.
Or take any two characters: First write from one point of view, then write from the other person’s point of view.
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Do you think emails and Facebook posts can be considered as “writing?”I do!
You are writing and communicating. Have fun with your writing . . . wherever that takes you. Your writing is your personal, and sometimes public, journey. Wherever your writing lands . . . Just write!
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Today’s writing prompt is inspired from “Falling Down the Rabbit Hole” by Emily Hanlon, December 2007 issue of Writer’s Digest magazine.
Using an incident from your life, or your fictional character’s life, write a scene from your point of view (or, your fictional character’s point of view). Use dialogue. Inner thought is what defines point of view. The other character in this scene speaks and acts, but the reader doesn’t know the secondary character’s thoughts. All the inner thoughts belong to the point-of-view character.
Basically, you are writing about an argument or a fight, or a heated debate between two people . . . yourself or your fictional character, and a secondary character, using dialogue. -
From the October 2014 issue of Writer Magazine, “Writers on Writing,” Roxane Gay:
“Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.”
Marlene’s Musings: Sometimes we want to read something good, just like we want comfort food. We need you, Writers, to do your best to create those words that soothe and settle us.Use the prompts sprinkled throughout The Write Spot Blog and Just Write!
