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The Book of Cliches by TheGrecianIsles
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Cinderella is a complete cliche. Just saying.
Scene Prompts - What Should Your Character Do Next? by paulapdx
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These are NOT your typical writing prompts. I find most writing prompts too general or specific to be helpful. The ones in this book are just generic enough to spark your imagination and everyone's response will be completely different. Depending on your story idea, plot, characters and writing style, the response to the following prompts will look vastly different from another writer's. How does this work? Well, when you hit a roadblock in a particular scene, play with one of the prompts and see how your character responds, what comes out of their mouth. Then, let the other characters respond to that line. Here's an example. For the following prompt, I can have a character respond one of many ways (and I literally just came up with these as I'm writing this book summary). SAMPLE PROMPT - Ask someone to leave Now, what's the next line out of your character's mouth? Is it: -- You know what, get the hell out! -- Look, I'm tired. Can we talk about this tomorrow? I'll have Peter drive you home. -- Will you please just leave! I can't do this. I can't talk to you anymore! -- Either he goes or I go. Which will it be? See how all these are very different ways for a character to essentially ask (or try to force) another character to leave? The key is to work with the response that works best for your situation. You should have a sense of what the scene is about and your character's goals, but that's all you really need! I love these prompts. You can insert them any time you hit a wall. They always seem to get my creative juices going. Sometimes I find that I've gone on to write an entire scene and I didn't even end up keeping the lines that the prompts generated! It was enough just to get me unstuck and get my characters interacting again. I hope these prompts can help others too. If folks vote and comment to let me know that they've helped, I'll post 10 prompts per chapter for the next 10 weeks. Cheers! We'll start with a chapter and a bonus one too.
How To: Write Mystery/Thriller by howto_
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Cliffhangers? Plot twists? Complex characters? Back stories? Bad guys? Chilling scenes? Mystery and Thriller, home to some of the most interesting, intriguing books you will ever read. There are turns round every corner, suprises at every bend and most of the time you are left with literal goosebumps. But writing Mystery/Thriller is much harder than just reading- are you up to the challenge? See this book as survival training for the very tough battle you are about to face when writing MYSTERY/THRILLER!
How To: Make An Original Character by howto_
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Highest Ranking: #1 in Non-Fiction [27.9.16] How many Kylies are there on this site? Do all of them have to have messy buns? Why does everyone love Starbucks so much? Why does every heroine have to have some sad back story? Why does everyone have to look like a model? Is there some really small gene pool that I don't know about which means everyone looks the same? Where's the fun in having a boring character?! Here's how to make a character that will surprise everyone.
How to Become a Better Writer: A Wattpad Guide by tsc0809
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Some basic writing tips to help you become a more effective storyteller.
How to Write Science Fiction by ScienceFiction
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not." - Isaac Asimov This piece is intended as a bit of a Help guide, a point of reference and hopefully something people will enjoy, as ultimately all of you will have different experiences reading and writing science fiction, and writing in general. If nothing else, I hope it inspires you to try your hand at writing Science Fiction if you haven't already.
Story Titles/Chapter Names by writinglove4ever
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Story and Chapter titles for all kind of genres. Some titles/chapter names are even with Covers that I made. You can use the titles/chapter names with the covers if you want. But let me know so I can read it. If you want me to make a cover for anything, comment and I will respond. Comment, and vote!! Thank you..!! First publish: 19/12/2016 Last publish: 16/04/2018 NOT taking cover requests anymore, sorry <3
Writing Prompts by GravityMay
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Welcome! Two writing prompts a day.