Prompts!
It’s been a while since I posted any writing exercises. To be fair, I’ve been just as remiss in actually writing any writing exercises. Hurm.
So here’s a few I just came up with for the writing group. Feel free to use them! And let me know what you come up with!
- Begin your story as something horrible is crawling toward your protagonist!
- Put a twist on one of the clichés listed here. You can just change a word (I dunno, write about a Lifetrap, or the Bad Old Days) or put whatever other kind of twist you want.
- Feature a character who loves something you hate.
- Set your story in a cramped place, like a train, airplane, or locked room.
And speaking of exercises, I’m thinking of trying my hand at posting super-short Twitter fiction each day. I just posted my first clumsy attempt. Feel free to follow me and watch me stumble and fail!
And of course it would not be a true Burns story without a glaring typo. Or two.
