Exercise your creativity. Exorcise your frustrations!Prompts:
Grab A Pen #1:
Use five sentences to describe why you want to write. Be honest and don’t worry about a "right" or "wrong"answer. This experiment will reveal your true motive for a career in writing.
Start a paragraph using the familiar line, "Trouble was his middle name..." Be as creative as you can with the sentence and all it implies.
Grab A Pen #3:
Watch a dramatic scene on television. Follow the characters on-screen and create their own inner dialogue on your paper. What are they thinking?
Grab A Pen #4:
Write five unrelated sentences. On another page, link them together in a story that is no longer than a page.
Grab A Pen #5:
Take a unneeded page of a story you've recently written. Make sure it is something unimportant or a copy of your work. How many times do you use a combination of "to-be?" Watch for has, was, and were. Take a red or blue pen and mark them out. Can you eliminate these words and make your writing more concise?
Example: "They were running ran away from the scene that was troubling them..."
Finished Product: "They ran way from the troubling scene."
Grab A Pen #6:
What is your favorite name for a man? A woman? Create a full name for this person and create a one-page story wrapped around this character. Does the name influence the material you create?
Example: "Alexandra Huffington-Price... Top real estate broker... Lives alone until..."
Grab A Pen #7:
Write a story that ends with the sentence, "You can't go home... You can't ever go home..."
Grab A Pen #8:
Write a page that begins with:
"She hurried to the cafe only to find he had already arrived..."
Grab a Pen #9:
Connect these words in a story: house, car, dreams, money, poor, alone, emotion.
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