Writing Prompt of the day/week/moment…

 

You’re cleaning out your garage and, hidden away in a back corner, you find an old shoebox. The box is heavier than it should be. When you open it up, you find cash—$40,000, to be exact. Where did the cash come from, who hid it there and why?
 
This one came from Writer’s Digest. I’m considering [...]

Getting inside your character’s head

Now, I’m not claiming to be an expert by any stretch of the imagination; I’m mainly using this blog to catalog ideas I like that I think might help my writing and sharing them in case anyone cares.;-) I’m totally stealing this idea from a thread on the Compuserve Writer’s Forum Research and Craft folder. [...]

I’m working on it.

Actually, right now I’m procrastinating, but I did post a question at the Compuserve Writer’s Forum, so that counts as work, right?

So, I’m going through Valerie and Daniel’s story, tentatively titled “Old Dogs” (learning new tricks, get it?) and adding a bit here, working my way toward those new scenes I need to add. I [...]

Dream a little dream…

Now this writing exercise I like. I’ve always been fascinated by dreams and I think it’ll be fun to get inside the heads of my main characters. I already know who two of my victims will be and possibly the third. Now to decide on the fourth.
The exercise is as follows:
Dream exercise: A commonly used [...]

Something to do

Okay, here’s a website that has writing prompts, or exercises. I’ll play and put the results here. Let’s see what happens…
The prompt/exercise reads, “A character in your fiction (or someone in real life including yourself ) is in a situation where they need to be forgiven– or are asked to forgive someone else. Does the foregiveness [...]