This week’s Accept the Challenge focuses on a new cafe owner. It’s opening day, the first customer steps inside and orders the two items in the photo above. What happens next? Do they like the food and drink or do they have a complaint? Have fun and happy writing.
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Accept the Challenge-Location, Location, Location
Ready for this week’s challenge? This one is a combination of a character, a photo and a line of dialogue. Here’s the challenge. Your main POV character is a real estate agent. They’ve just agreed to sale this abandoned property. Somewhere in the story they have to say the line, location, location, location. Hope you…
Accept the Challenge-3 Lines of Dialogue
A new challenge that I hope you’ll enjoy… Here are three lines of dialogue. “That will have to do.” “I told you this would happen.” “It’s going to rain tomorrow.” The challenge is to weave all three into your story. One could be at the beginning, one in the middle and one the final words…
Accept The Challenge-Opposites
Did you know that today is Opposites Day? This week’s challenge is to write a story based on opposites. Maybe it’s a couple who are complete opposites? Perhaps it’s someone who decides to celebrate it by doing the opposite of what everyone else does and says? I think this one could be lots of fun…
Accept The Challenge-Snapshot
Are you ready to accept this week’s challenge? Our scenario for this week is your character purchases an old camera…yes, the type where you had to buy film and have it developed. Your character finds a bargain camera at a flea market. When they bring it home, they realize there’s an old film in there….
Accept the Challenge
Remember the old writing prompts on This Writer’s Life? I know many of you used them and even some people submitted the stories they created to publishers and got published! I didn’t post any last year but for 2024 I’m bringing them back with a slight tweak. They have a new name Accept the Challenge….
12 Days of Christmas-Day Five-A Long Story, Short
Have you ever thought about writing short stories? It’s a great way to supplement your fiction writing, the perfect way to ease yourself into writing, and the ideal warm up practice for all things writing. Day 5 of my 12 Days of Christmas special features my plotting your short story and novella workshop and it’s…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-It Looks Easy
Continuing with our image and line of a story theme for the prompts. This is the image- The line this week is an inner thought of your character which is… He makes it look so easy. Have fun and happy writing.
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Image and a Line
October! Every month I try and come up with something different and decided we’d combine an image along with a line from the story. This first week, it’s this photo and let’s use an opening line which is dialogue between two characters. “I’ve never made anything besides toast, but I know I can do this….
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Genre Number Two
Continuing with our change the genre prompts of September. Here’s the image again and this week, let’s make it a Sci-Fi story. Have fun and happy writing.