I always say the best stories make you ‘feel’ something and that they pull on your emotional strings. Here’s an image of three women. This prompt is to write a story so you can practice your emotional writing skills. What emotion are you going to pack into this story? Anger, sadness, happiness or even all…
Tag: writing short stories
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Let’s Change Again
Continuing with our theme for September. Here’s the image again, and this time, let’s make the story a literary one. This might be the perfect exercise for anyone who wants to stray outside their comfort zone…yes, that’s probably all of us genre writers! Have fun and happy writing.
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Wrong Day for Dinner
This week’s prompt is all about a character who is invited to a dinner party but goes to the guest’s house on the wrong night. Do they arrive the day before the scheduled dinner or the day after? Perhaps it’s even the wrong week or month. Do they find it funny or embarrassing? Does…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Dinner
It’s the last Wednesday of the month and the last of the photo prompts. Here’s this week’s one. Who is throwing the dinner party? What’s the occasion? Who’s invited…who isn’t and why? Maybe something exciting or sinister is revealed. If you’re journaling think about an imaginary dinner party. Who would you invite and why?…
Wednesday Writing and Journaling Prompts-Strange Objects
For this week’s short story prompt, another photo one. Your character opens the front door to see these three figures sitting outside. How did they get there, who put them there and why? For those of you opting to journal, has anything strange like this happened to you? Objects mysteriously showing up and had no idea where…
Wednesday Writing/Journal Prompts-Songs
For this prompt, think about a song. What’s it about or what do you think it’s about? Use this as the basis for your short story. If you’re journaling, pick a song that you love and journal about why you enjoy listening to it so much? What type of emotion does it stir? Is…
Wednesday Writing/Journaling Prompts-Get Happy
Happiness is the theme of this week’s prompt. For the short story writer, your character is happy about something. What is it? Are they finally happy after years of being sad and depressed? Have they reached a goal or achieved something special? For those of you who are journaling. Think back to an event…
Change the Plot
I had a last minute guest blogger cancellation so not as to go a Thursday without a post, I thought I’d share with you one of the exercises from my Writing Prompts book. This is from the chapter called Change the Plot Here’s the scenario and all you have to change the outcome- Your character is…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Characters Part Two
Here we are at the second part of the month long character writing prompt. This character now joins the story that you started writing last week. Who are they and what’s their connection to last week’s female character? Are they related? Even about to meet for the very first time? Have fun and…
Hi Susan, I’m Out of Ideas, Help!
It’s time for another Hi Susan, and this question came from Penny… I’ve been writing and writing and I never thought I’d run out of plot ideas but I have. Does that mean I’m not supposed to be a writer? My answer to Penny, you are supposed to be a writer. All of us…