Category: Writing Tips

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

“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.

and more!

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

…more, more, more!

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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

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

and more!

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!)

…more, more, more!

Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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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

Quotes

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!

and more!

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

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.

and more!

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

…more, more, more!

Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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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

Quotes

“For a creative writer, possession of the “truth” is less important than emotional sincerity.” -George Orwell

“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 dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.” -Anton Chekhov

“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.” -Thornton Wilder

Prompts

Pick any one of the groups below and use all of the words in a/an story, poem, novel, instruction manual, likely inedible ingredients list, note to a friend, advertisement, or any other written form that could include some combination of all the above or be something else altogether. Good luck!

1). Ballerina, library, toupée.

2). Professor, garage sale, knife

3). Electrician, bathroom, tulip

4). Girl next door, museum, paint

5). Boy next door, coffee shop, goldfish

6). Politician, gym, coconut oil

7). Thorton Wilder, pool, cell phone

8). Assassin, Build A Bear, book

9). Student, Concert, Yo-Yo

10). Dog, mall, crayons

and more!

Translating emotions into body language (including nifty example charts)

Big Thesaurus and Story Plot Generator

Writing the perfect scene

Plotting without fears

…more, more, more!

Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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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

Quotes

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” -Henry Ward Beecher

“Another luxury for an idle imagination is the writer’s own feeling about the work. There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress and its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.” -Annie Dillard

“A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent.” -Andy Munthe

Prompts

Write about the last time you felt dispensable

Write about the last time you felt indispensable.

Your character goes out on a dinner date and becomes attracted to the waiter/waitress.

Make a list of five things you’re afraid of happening to you. Then write a story in which one of them happens to your character

and more!

101 tips from the world’s most famous authors

Almost remember that word you were thinking of but can’t quite pull it out of the fog in your mind? Here’s the solution for you.

…more, more, more!

Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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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

Quotes

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.” -Logan Pearsall Smith

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.” -Vita Sackville-West

“The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer

Prompts

You build up walls but they don’t hide you

She comes over and I am in your arms.

It started out as a small lie but then it spiraled out of control.

You’ve lost your wallet again. You’ve checked all the usual places and asked all of the usual suspects. Where is it this time?

and more!

How to Build a Fictional World

A fun way to learn how to use a semicolon

21 literary characters you’ll meet on spring break

…more, more, more!

Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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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

Quotes

“Your work is to discover your work, and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” -Buddha

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” -Bill Cosby

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” -Jack London

“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don’t feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you’re wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.” -Paul Gallico

Prompts

[Today’s prompts from 642 Things to Write About By: the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, a really fun writing prompt book. It’s definitely worth checking out!]

Write about two characters who have known each other for a long time, and give one of them a secret.

A hopelessly messy person and an obsessively neat person become roommates.

Write the lyrics of a rap song. They must include a cop, a bad drug bust, and a dog.

Fix the plot of the worst movie you have ever seen.

and more!

Stephen King’s Top 20 rules for writers

Fuzzmail: “Fuzzmail records the act of writing and lets you send it as an email. Dynamic changes, typos, pauses, and write-overs are captured and communicated…a more emotionally expressive alternative to email, so that an emailed love letter does not have to look the same as a business letter.”

Develop a fictional world through mapping

…more, more, more!

Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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Write on!