This section of the blog will eventually be more organized, but here are some juicy bits for starters.
(NOTE: These links all open in a new browser window so you won’t lose your place.)
GOT WRITER’S BLOCK? TRY THESE . . .
Four Fun ‘Fertile Material’ prompts
10 Tips for Using the Fertile Material Writing Prompts
New Writing Prompt: Sparkling Beasts & Glimmering Gods
Milli’s Zodiac Writing Prompts based on Sun Signs for Writers by our very own Bev Walton-Porter (10K Day Participant):
Aries / Taurus / Gemini / Cancer / Leo
15 Fun Writing Challenges from Sunflower Ranch (50-word challenges, but you could easily use any of these to write a short story)
REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY!
Use the Whiplash of Your Inner Critic to Make It Across the Drawbridge
Here’s an example of doing the above but with a fictional character instead, by our very own Patti Stafford (10K Day participant). Look for the second entry on this page; it’s entitled writer’s lament.
MOTIVATIONAL ARTICLES
Writing Dialogue: Don’t Freak Yourself Out
How I Am Overcoming My Inner Critic and My Fear of Success by Lois Eighmy
A Writer Kissed by Inspiration
GRAB A PROMPT