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100 Days of Poetry Prompts

by Eva, in category Ideas, Poetry

Here are 100 prompts for promptly-written impromptu poetry. Use these prompts for daily practice, for warm-ups, for intellectual party games, or to pen last-minute valentines. Commit to the whole 100 days; flex your dactyls and indulge in spondaic spontaneity. Life is short, art is long long short. Poetry Prompts A Shakespearean sonnet about music theory.… Read More

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Things to Write About Today

by Eva, in category Ideas
Ideas to Start Writing

Write about tidying up a mess. Write about things you learned as a child, then forgot. Write a shopping list for a character’s relative. Write, in detail, about the edge of an organic object.

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52 Romance Story Ideas with Built-in Conflict

by Eva, in category Ideas
Romance Story Ideas - 52 Love Plots with Built-In Conflict

Here are enough romance story ideas to write a story a week for a year. I hope you find your spark! Romance Worksheets If you need help developing your romance story ideas, I have a bundle of 11 worksheets you can use.Β Β Click here to download. Write a story about… Two time-travelling scholars who compete to… Read More

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30 Ideas for Your Opening Scene

by Eva, in category Ideas

Opening scenes are often written first and edited so many times, that after a while it’s easy to overlook the fact that they may no longer be the best choice, and that there may be more effective ways to begin your story. How well does your opening scene…Β  Grab the reader’s attention? Introduce the main… Read More

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30 Scene Ideas for Worldbuilding

by Eva, in category Ideas, Worldbuilding

Getting lost in the story world is every writer’s (and reader’s) favourite past-time, isn’t it? These 30 scene ideas are just a small sample, but they’re sure to send you on some exciting worldbuilding tangents. Don’t miss the previous posts: 30 Scene Ideas for Character Development and 30 Scene Ideas for Plot Development, and subscribe… Read More

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πŸ“• Current progress on my gothic/DA novel, π•­π–‘π–†π–ˆπ– 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗: SLOW.
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If you’d like some help preparing, you can find a link to these Preptober prompts in my NaNo story highlights.
I think I’m going to be rebelling for the 2nd year in a row and working on my gothic/dark academia novel, π•­π–‘π–†π–ˆπ– 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗. πŸ–€
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✨ "People who find resonant heroic themes of cha ✨ "People who find resonant heroic themes of challenges and questing in their own lives, in their goals, creative outpourings, in their day- and night-dreamsβ€” are being led to a single psychic fact. That is, that the creative and spiritual lives of individuals influence the outer world as much as the mythic world influences the individual." - Clarissa Pinkola EstΓ©s
βœπŸ»β˜•οΈ I've finished proofreading my looong article, and it's now available for students of the One Page Novel course. You can find it under, 'Advanced Lessons'. I hope it gives you some enticing new ideas to work with! πŸ–€πŸ“šπŸ€―
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I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from my gothic novel and I was blown away by the results! 🀯
This is so close to how I pictured the β€œOld Library” in my novel world. You can read a rough draft of the opening scene in my π•­π–‘π–†π–ˆπ– 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗 highlights.
If you’re a writer, there’s an abundance of inspiration to be found in the results of your own AI prompts, and also in scrolling (or searching) through others’ imaginations! πŸ’Ž
( πŸ‘‰πŸ» swipe to see the unedited quartet that Midjourney returned)
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