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
“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
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.
more!
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
…more, more, more!
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