How To Write a Book

Writers Block Cure

30+ ideas to cure your writers block!

1. What would happen if your younger self met your current self?

2. You're heading up an evil crime organisation. What do you call yourself and why?

3. Think of a villain from history. Imagine you're both teenagers in school detention together.

4. You find a letter from your grandfather that was never sent. Why not?

5. Look at the last message you sent. What would have happened if you'd accidentally sent it to the second-to-last person in your message history?

6. What is the least convenient personal habit for a detective? Write about that detective.

7. You're on a jury and you distrust one of your fellow jurors. Why?

8. Imagine you can travel back in time to give yourself one piece of advice. What would it be?

9. Take your favourite plot from a book. Re-write the opening as if it's set in a different time period.

10. Think of a child in your life. Write a page designed to make him/her fall on the floor with laughter.

11. Which two of your friends get on the least well? What if they were the only ones who could crack a code and they had to work together?

12. Imagine you're a criminal. Write a letter to your partner asking for forgiveness.

13. You're about to embark on a dangerous mission. Write a letter to your loved ones for them to open if you don't make it.

14. Take the names of the songs on your favourite albums. What if they were chapter headings?

15. Think of a wish. Now imagine the granting of the wish has unexpected consequences.

16. Recall the best present you ever received. Imagine it being given to somebody with different interests. How does he/she react on opening the present?

17. There are three of you: a good one, a balanced one and an evil one. How do the three of you interact?

18. Look at the front page of a national paper Could there be a conspiracy behind the main headline?

19. Imagine you could do the last week again. What would you do differently?

20. Imagine that the earth has been destroyed and your family are one of the first to settle on a new planet. What do you do for a job?

21. If you lived 50 years ago, what job would you be doing?

22. Look at the nearest object to you. What would its life be like if it had a brain?

23. Think of your favourite place by the coast. Describe the scene if the sea level were 100 metres higher.

24. What if your favourite pet could understand every word you say?

25. Think of the person you'd least like to spend time with. Imagine you're drowning and he/she is the only one who can help.

26. Ask your parents how they met. In what way would their first meeting have been different if your dad had had a parrot on his shoulder?

27. Think about the last good decision you made. What would have happened if you'd made the wrong choice?

28. You wake up in the wrong body. Whose body are you in and why?

29. Think about your favourite teacher. If he or she was hiding a secret what would it be?

30. Take your neighbourhood in 100 years' time. Write an opening describing your street.

1. Think of a nursery rhyme. What if it was set in modern day America?

2. Look through your photographs until you find one with a stranger in the background. Write a fictional account of his/her five minutes leading up to the taking of the photograph.

3. Look at the dating section in your local paper. Write a fictional account about the first date between one of the advertisers and a reader.

4. You find a baby kangaroo by the side of the road. How did it get there?

5. There are three of you: a good one, a balanced one and an evil one. How did this come about?