Find an article in your local newspaper and take on one of the subjects of the piece as your main character and write about how they dealt with the situation,
Write about getting lost on a road trip. How do you get back or do you get back? Do you stop along the way? Write about the arguments that the people in the car have.
When you got home today you discovered a huge wrapped present waiting on your doorstep for you. No letter, no return address, just a label on it that says its for you. Write about opening it.
People usually aren’t what they seem and you can’t judge a book by its cover. Write a story that presents a character at face value and then completely changes the reader’s perception by the end of their development.
Grab the closest book to you. Open a page completely at random and put your finger down. Use that sentence to inspire a story. Disregard content and the character in the book and make them your own.
Lynda Barry (Thx, Gwenda)
Think of your ideal reader, the person you most want to enjoy your writing. Is it someone like you, someone completely different? What’s your goal? Write a short story describing your ideal reader, or maybe the life your ideal reader wishes they had.
Think about something you’ve always wanted to tell somebody but couldn’t. In a story or a poem reveal your secret to that person.
Author Kurt Vonnegut provides a list of eight tips to create a successful short story. Follow these tips and create your own short story. Too hard? Pick one or two of the tips that you like and start there. Vonnegut qualifies the list by adding that Flannery O’Connor broke all these rules except the first, and that great writers tend to do that.
Blackout Poem - Dear Blocked Writer
A slew of blackout poems coming your way, starting with a Dear Abby-inspired set.
here i am, starting.
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