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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“Writing fiction is not “self-expression” or “therapy.” Novels are for readers, and writing them means the crafty, patient, selfless construction of effects. I think of my novels as being something like fairground rides: my job is to strap the reader into their car at the start of chapter one, then trundle and whiz them through scenes and surprises, on a carefully planned route, and at a finely engineered pace.” -Sarah Waters

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.” -Raymond Chandler

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” -Sir Francis Bacon

 

Prompts

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[[ These exercises are from Imaginative Writing The Elements of Craft 3rd ed. By Janet Burroway (a textbook I had from one of my fiction writing classes during undergrad).  ]]

Write, quickly, a couple of pages about something banal that you’ve done in the past few days. Then replace at least fifteen nouns with other nouns that are in some way extreme, or inappropriate to the subject at hand. Any usable ideas in there?

Begin with the largest general category you can think of –minerals, food, structures –think big. Then narrow the category step by step, becoming more specific until you have a single detailed image. Try it again with the same large category but narrow in another direction. Can you, without naming a quality, make your image suggest an idea or direct our attitude towards the thing you describe?

Choose three characters from your story-in-progress and put them in a scene where they must decide on a name for something (a pet, a brochure, a dessert, a building…) Write the dialogue and their actions, in play form if you like, because this scene will probably not find its way into your story, but it will help you identify their attitudes and feelings toward each other.

 

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Strengthen your novel with these 30 one-minute tips

Learn about Amanda Hocking and her success as an indie author

In search of a writing group? Find one now!

 

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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.” –Samuel McChord Crothers

“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.” –Samuel Lover

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” –James Michener

“Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.” –Jeb Dickerson

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Prompts

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This weeks prompts from http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts

You wake up shackled to a chair and can’t remember how you got there. Two voices are talking. You recognize one of them.

You wake up one day with an unusual super power that seems pretty worthless—until you are caught in a situation that requires that specific “talent.”

Your closest friend has asked you to give a speech at his/her wedding.

You’ve been waiting in a line for days to get concert tickets to your favorite band’s upcoming show. You’re keeping track of your experience in a journal. What does it say?

Write about a price negotiation for a car from the perspective of the car.

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Writing for Comics

One-sentence stories for you reading or submitting pleasure

Handwriting Rediscovered

Is it time to take that writing-cation? Check out these hotels that are sure to get your creative juices flowing.

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Prompts, Writer Wednesday, Writing Tips

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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by the stars that are disturbingly in motion.” -E. B. White

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” -John Steinbeck

“To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that the dungheaps play a very respectful part in landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.” -Anton Chekhov

 

Prompts

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Prompts courtesy of http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts  (where you can find countless prompts if you need more inspiration)

You’re a pirate on a small pirate ship, that consists of only you, one other pirate and a captain. Recently you ransacked another ship and found a treasure map. After weeks of following it, you’ve finally found the island where “X” marks the spot. Write a scene where you find the buried treasure, only it’s not exactly the treasure you expected to find.

You’re walking to grab lunch when you see a crowd gathered around a building. You look up and see that someone is standing on the ledge, looking to jump. You hear a police office close to you mention that the person is about to commit suicide. He also mentions the person’s name: and it’s someone you know! Write a scene where you attempt to stop the jumper from jumping.

You head into the bathroom at work, walk into a stall and close the door. Moments later, as you leave the stall, you notice two people standing there and there’s one major problem: They are of the opposite sex. On the spot, you make up an excuse as to why you are in their bathroom.

 

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How Creative Flow is Like Sex

That vs. Which: do you know which to use?

While not directly related to writing, sleep makes us better all around (especially with your mind working so hard)

 

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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kylewriting quotes

Quotes

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” -Stephen King

“A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.” -W. Somerset Maugham

It is plagiarism when you take something out of a book and use it as your own. If you take it out of several books then it is research.” -Ralph Foss

 

Prompts

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A story happened here. Tell it.

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How to begin writing a story (if you are stuck)

Tips for creating a compelling plot

How to write a great villain (video)

36 (plus 1) Dramatic situations (“Georges Polti says that all stories boil down to just 36 dramatic situations and takeoffs of those situations. Somebody else out there added #37.“)

 

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Writer Wednesday 20: Writing Ecards

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“An autobiography can distort…but fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.” -V.S. Naipaul

“A writer is someone who finishes.” -Thomas Farber

“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.” -Isaac B. Singer

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Prompts

He’d never noticed a door there before.

She’d have to hitch a ride home.

The garden was overgrown now.

This time her boss had gone too far.

A story about the werewolf/vampire crossbreed.

 

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10 Creative Block Breakers

How the Senses Make Stories Seem Real

Let’s all write killer short stories with help from this article

30 indispensable tips from famous authors

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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.” -Enrique Jardiel Poncela

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” -G.K. Chesterton

When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don’t state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.”
-Lewis Carroll

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.” -Harold Ross

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Prompts

It looks like another predictable day at work/school for your character when, all of a sudden–

Why you like Wednesdays.

You’re not sure which shocked you more: the talking dog or the person who thinks they are a dog.

It is halfway through the evening when you realize that one of your guests brought a severed limb as their dish to the potluck.  You don’t know who did it or whose limb it is.

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Victorian Era Names (a useful page if your writing something during this time period)

Retell your favorite story with one of these eight sentences (as theorized by Kurt Vonnegut)

How to write with style (again, with help from Vonnegut)

A little less relevant to writing, but definitely a fun thing to know! How to write in Elvish

Harold Ross Quote

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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Agatha Christie

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” -Samuel Johnson

“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.” -Raymond Chandler

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.” -Charles Caleb Colton

 

Prompts

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A hero/heroine that nobody likes becomes somebody everyone loves.

Facebook is shut down. How does the world survive?

When all the water dried up.

47 things to do with ___________.

Your hero’s/heroine’s first kiss.

 

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40 Literary Terms You Should Know

48 Quick reads to impress university admissions, tutors, and any friends you might have

How to Read a Book

Tips for writer’s block

 

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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of others.” -William Faulkner

“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel –it is, before all, to make you see. That –and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm –all that you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.” -Joseph Conrad

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector.” -Ernest Hemingway

 

Prompts

The hunter put down his weapon.

It began when he walked into the room, and I wasn’t quite sure when it would end.

I packed my three essentials and hit the road, never to return, with a hope that I wouldn’t find myself needing something else.

It was the night before the month of May and…

Write about your earliest superstition

 

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60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers

25 Things you should know about character

Why you should date a girl who reads…or does this other thing…(suspense! le gasp!)

 

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Writer Wednesday 16: Shakespeare

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

Quotes

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Prompts

Your hero/heroine cannot be with the one they love.

This was a duel where only one would come out alive.

What’s in a name?

Interested in some Shakespeare related prompts? Check out this link to get your Shakespearean juices flowing!

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50 Best Blogs for Creative Writing Students

50 Problem Words and Phrases

450 Reasons why this post is overloaded with Shakespeare

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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! Did you try one of these writing prompts? Let me know! I love to see what other writers are up to. <3 Kyle

It's Wednesday! Let's Write

Quotes

“The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.”  -Norbet Platt

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” ~Gilda Radner

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.” -Stephen King
Prompts

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Write a story based on the title of your favorite song.

You track down an old boyfriend/girlfriend.

An argument at Sunday dinner.

Write the interior monologue you experience when you sit down to write.

 

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How to Edit Your Own Writing

Hook Your Readers With Tension

Distraction free writing…like on a typewriter (sorry facebook and other aspects of the internet that take up precious writing time!). Pro-tips: 1. Log in to help keep track of your documents 2. You can set the text and background colors to be anything you want!

Periodic table of story telling

 

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