Say Goodbye to Writer's Block
Almost every writer has a pathological predisposition to procrastination and often believe there is a magical answer to the question ‘where do you get your writing ideas?’.
If you write:
- Twitter fiction
- Microfiction
- Flash Fiction
- Short Short Stories
- Short Stories
- Novelettes
- Novellas
- Novels
- Scripts
then these writing prompts will jump-start your creativity, bust through writer's block and get your word count back on track!
How Are These Creative Writing Prompts Better Than Any Others?
Good question! This is a prompts book. But it's a prompts book with a BIG difference. The prompts in this book aren't the usual, run-of-the-mill, mind numbingly boring prompts you usually get.
Oh, no. Not here. I've sat in workshops where the writing idea they would give you would be 'The Sea'. The SEA?! Not on my watch. When I'm writing short stories (or anything else for that matter) I want something that is actually going to inspire me.
A few examples of the writing prompts in the book:
- If they kept level heads then there was a good chance they might escape this.
- I will kill that little upstart if I get my hands on him.
- I'll trade you everything in my handbag for it.
- What do you mean she's not dead?
- As she came into sight it was clear everything had changed.
Now, think about one of those for a second... What do you mean she's not dead? Who? Your ex-boyfriend? Come back to win back your affections from beyond the grave? The woman you caught a glimpse of and fell in love with before she got on board that plane that crashed? Your cat that you buried at the old Indian Cemetary.
Okay, that last one might have been used already but I'm sure you get the idea.
How To Turn Prompts Into Writing Plots Into Writing... Anything
500 creative writing prompts just didn't seem enough. I wanted to to make it completely foolproof and hammer your writer's block once and for all.
And so, if you are stuck there are two more areas of this book to explore:
#1 - Mr Maxwell's Spectacular Story Suggester
A simple method of taking whichever prompt you choose and writing a plot from it. And once you've got your plot? Just follow the plain-English steps to turn it into a full story.
#2 - Several fantastic authors explain how they turn prompts into plots
And from there into creative writing in whatever form they choose:
- The Modest Mr Maxwell has taken a prompt and written a Flash Fiction story from it then explained exactly how he did it.
- Adrian Graham a prolific microfiction author whose ebooks have been downloaded over 120 thousand times has written some exquisite stories and explained how to create micro-magic from the writing ideas
- Rosalind Wyllie a tremendous playwright whose plays have been performed up and down the country by fine companies of players (including the Royal Shakespeare Company) has penned a short script and taken time from her busy schedule to describe how she weaved her magic.
- Mr C.G. Allan the fantastic Young Adult author has written short story and then explained just how it went from prompt to print.
You'll never be bothered by writer's block again - with these writing ideas your mind will be an overflowing well of wonderful ideas and even better - you'll know what to do with them.
