Writing Utensils
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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.
The Holy Grail of Names by blackbirdspn
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Tired of trying to come up with unique, interesting and meaningful names? Look no further for you have found the Holy Grail of Names!! There are enough basic names out here, this book is filled with a verity of names for any occasion free for you to use in any rp or book you're partaking in or just to get your creative juices flowing.
Writing Prompts (Over One Hundred) by PaytonJanae
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Have you ever daydreamed? Spent hours, minutes, seconds. . . In dream land? Where you create your own stories and fantasies and romances? Because I daydream all the time, the only difference is I write them down. So here you go, read some of my "daydreams". Basically short stories without endings. *Only rules are that if you write my story, you have to give credit it for the inspiration to me, and tell me you wrote it! Other than that, have fun writing! Thanks :).* Somewhat unedited. *Book started on May•6•2016* "NOOOOOOO. You legit made me cry -_- @SociallyAwkwardNerd5" "MAJOR PLOT TWIST TOWARD THE END. Bien trabajo, Payton! This one sent spooky shivers down my spine @Jess_Kinner" "This prompt is haunting and would make a good story! Your prompts are the best I've read yet. @KamelahWade" "Ugh sometimes it sucks that these are writing prompts because they are so good I just want to continue reading them! @NaLulikeJolly" "i am in love with this prompt <3 @apocalypso-" "AGHH your short magic stories are so well written. Teach me your ways ;-: @_Cosmic-Coffee_ " "This is amazing! Please do more like it!!! @Stormwolfwriters" "omg!!! I loved that, can someone please write this asap @drcmione" "Aww, that's so cute!! I was planning on writing a story like this, and with this prompt, I have an idea of where I wish to go with it. Thanks! Wonderful writing! 😀 @SupermundaneSpecter" "This would actually be a good start for a movie. @IGoByManyNamez" "Omg that's dark @StarOfLightning" "This is so sad @kpop_hoe" "UM, DID I SAY YOU COULD BREAK MY HEART? 😭 @NaLulikeJolly" "I really like this one, so I might use it!!! Thanks for having such a brilliant mind!! @omfgphil" "this one is amazing @AnnoyinglyVal"
Designing Your Character & Other Handy Things by maplefoot
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Characters are hard to create. So consider this book a giant cheat sheet of all your writing needs. This book not only helps writers create their characters, but is a menagerie of descriptions for your stories: Smells. Sounds Instead of Said Describing Clothing Collective Nouns Adverbs Edible Plants Different Colours of basic colours & Lots more. This book also does requests if your stuck on something in your story. Cover Art by Charlie Bowater.