If you feel in need of motivation to write, or are prone to finding excuses, grab a pencil and paper and press play!
Write With Me
- Writing fairytales
- 5-minute warmup
- Character building
- Fill your page
- Write 1000 words in 30 minutes
- Plan a novel with me
- 1 Hour Story Challenge
- Dark Academia Edition
✒ Here is a stationery list of items you might spot in the videos or on my Instagram.
Archive of Live Write-Along Prompts
- Time
- Write a diary entry
- The Whisper of the Muse by Julia Margaret Cameron
- How long is it since your character felt happy?
- Two characters looking up at the same moon.
- A character is anxious or afraid to talk to their mother.
- A character reveals their backstory in dialogue.
- Think of an inconvenience from your daily life and turn it into an adventure for your character.
- A character tries to guess what another person is thinking but ultimately finds out that they were mistaken.
- “The house was like nothing she’d ever seen before.”
- A reader discovers your work 100 years from now.
- A character is lost ever though they have a map.
- A character does something that you’d like to experience yourself.
- Place a character in an uncharacteristic setting.
- A character doubts their work and then finds solace in it.
- Describe a familiar place in an unfamiliar era.
- Your morning routine from the point of view of someone who has recently suffered a loss.
- A character tries to decipher a message.
- A writer’s argument with their muse escalates fast.
- A character relates an anecdote about another character.
- A character becomes obsessed with details.
- Write a letter to one of your characters
Index of Excerpts
- Lord Chesterfield – letter dated 8 March 1750
- Sir Walter Scott – diary entry dated 15 February 1829
- Excerpt from New Grub Street by George Gissing
- Excerpt from The Happy Life by Seneca
- To the Moon by Charlotte Turner Smith
- Excerpt from The Floral Underworld by E.A. Deverell
- Excerpt from North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Excerpt from On Running After One’s Hat by G.K. Chesterton
- Excerpt from Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
- Excerpt from The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Passionate Reader to His Poet by Richard Le Gallienne
- Excerpt from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
- Excerpt from Write for Your Life by Lawrence Block
- Excerpt from Elements of Fiction Writing: Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
- Excerpt from A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
- Excerpt from The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- Excerpt from Why I Write by George Orwell
- In A Kentish Rose Garden by Mathilde Blind
- Excerpt from The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
- Excerpt from Recollections of a Happy Life by Marianne North
- Excerpt from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
- Excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke