These are openings for stories which writers can use to get writing – it started as a twitter meme. 1) He was too old for this, the years weighed heavily on his still firm frame, white hair flowed down his back and the beard was straggily. 2) The garden had a patio area hidden amongst […]
Music can be a great source of inspiration to writers, why not have a look at your music collection. List the names of ten albums or the bands themselves. Use this list to write from. Write the album name as a title adn begin to write, don’t worry about what the album actually is about […]
These are my story starters which can be used as openings for stories – it started as a twitter meme. These ones are slightly too long for tweets but I thought I’d share them anyway. 1) Ambient lighting filled the bar, it looked rustic and old but was a well oiled sleek money making machine […]
A lovely exercise to get the creative juices flowing is to get a money box and turn it into a story box. Set it up on a shelf or table with strips of paper and pens, then when ever someone visits your house get them to write a sentence down and to post it into […]
I’m sharing this picture so that other writers may use it as writing inspiration. Look at the picture for a while, what is the story behind it? Is it magical? Just lights for decoration? What happens under their glow? More pictures can be found at Salaric Photography.
IF you are stuck for a writing idea grab the nearest book to you and play a little writing game. Open it at random and write down the words that start each line on that page. Now you have a list of words like this: go but to Peter be sweaty he ran belch of […]
Here is a wonderful free tool for writers – it is a writing challenge generator by Seventh Sanctum. Just follow the link and it takes you to a page where you can decide on what them you want for the challenge. You can then decide on how complex or long you want it. This sort […]
Sometime writing can seem souless and pointless and it is at this point that you need to have someone to write for. I have found writing for somebody to be a good way to break out of this trap – I even used to make little booklets with hand drawn characters for my little girl […]
This is a picture of plants growing high up on a building – writers are welcome to use it as writing inspiration 🙂
I love writing challenges – it started with NaNoWriMo of National Novel Writing Month were you write 50, 000 words in a month. Nano has a huge community with a forum were help can always be found or an exercise to get you going, and local groups so you get to meet other local writers. […]