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. Merry Christmas! <3 Kyle
Quotes
“Story is to human beings what the pearl is to the oyster.” -Joseph Gold
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” -Ernest Hemingway
“Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, ‘Please will you do my job for me.'” -C.S. Lewis
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” -John Steinbeck
Prompts (This week’s scifi and fantasy holiday prompts from here)
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You find a music box that, when played, brings a sugarplum faerie to life. She’s not friendly.
When a blizzard strands several people in an abandoned factory in Northern California, they find the factory’s workers — elves — never really left.
The crew of earth’s first deep-space ship celebrate Christmas together, until they receive a distress call from another ship apparently on its way to earth.
It was the night before Christmas, and suddenly all the creatures were stirring.
After bringing your newborn baby home from the hospital, you get a visit from three men who claim to have traveled a long way to see your child. Oh, and they have gifts.
In a chest you’ve inherited from your mother, you find a copy of a family tree you’ve never seen before that seems to indicate you’re a direct descendant of Ebenezer Scrooge.
Slowly, a man comes to the realization that his world and everything he knows is just the inside of a snow globe.
and more!
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Happy Holidays!
