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Write about a secret. Prompt #113

Write about a secret. Either a secret you hold, or write from a fictional point of view.

You can take your personal experience and write it as fiction.

If you want, change the gender, age, details of the main character.

Marlene C

November 19, 2014

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Maya Angelou sez . . .

Maya Angelou said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Okay, friends. . . you heard The Lady . . . Write!

From Marlene: Don’t keep your story bottled up inside you. Write it out.

Don’t know what to write about? Check out the prompts on The Write Spot Blog. Choose one. Set your timer for 15 or 20 minutes and Just Write! You can also find writing prompts here.

Marlene C

November 18, 2014

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Evening. Prompt #111

Today’s prompt: Evening.

Hmmmm. . . I wonder what you will come up with for this freewrite? I look forward to your writing about “evening.”

Marlene C

October 1, 2014

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What do you want? Prompt #110

What do you want?

Set your timer and write for 15 or 20 minutes. See what comes up for you.

If this prompt is too “open” or vague for you, how about this:

What do you want to do today? If you could do anything you want. . . what would you like to do today?

You can answer for yourself, or as your fictional character would answer. This might be a fun way to get to know your fictional character(s) a little deeper.

Above all, have fun with this prompt!

Laffing Sal

Marlene C

September 29, 2014

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Scene Two: Other character’s POV. Prompt #109

Using the same scene you wrote about for Prompt #108, write from the other person’s point of view. All inner thought, motivation and drama come from the secondary character’s point of view.

Or take any two characters: First write from one point of view, then write from the other person’s point of view.

Marlene C

September 24, 2014

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Scene One: Your point of view. Prompt #108

Today’s writing prompt is inspired from “Falling Down the Rabbit Hole” by Emily Hanlon, December 2007 issue of Writer’s Digest magazine.

Using an incident from your life, or your fictional character’s life, write a scene from your point of view (or, your fictional character’s point of view). Use dialogue. Inner thought is what defines point of view. The other character in this scene speaks and acts, but the reader doesn’t know the secondary character’s thoughts. All the inner thoughts belong to the point-of-view character.

Basically, you are writing about an argument or a fight, or a heated debate between two people . . . yourself or your fictional character, and a secondary character, using dialogue.

Marlene C

September 22, 2014

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Create a pantoum. Prompt #107

So far, on The Write Spot Blog, the prompts have been nice and easy. How about challenging yourself with a pantoum?

Pantoum is the Western word for the Malayan pantun, a poetic form that first appeared in the fifteenth century, in Malayan literature. It existed orally before then.

The Western version of the pantoum is a poem of indefinite length made up of stanzas whose four lines are repeated in a pattern: lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are repeated as lines 1 and 3 of the next stanza.

___________________________________________________________ line 1

___________________________________________________________ line 2

___________________________________________________________ line 3

___________________________________________________________ line 4

___________________________________________________________ line 5 – same as line 2

___________________________________________________________ line 6

___________________________________________________________ line 7 – same as line 4

___________________________________________________________ line 8

___________________________________________________________ line 9 – same as line 6

___________________________________________________________ line 10 – same as line 3

___________________________________________________________ line 11 – same as line 8

___________________________________________________________ line 12 – same as line 1

The final stanza has a twist: The second and fourth lines are the same as the third and first lines of the first stanza. The first line of the poem is the same as the last. This way, every line is used twice.

Click on comments below to see samples of pantoums.

Marlene C

September 17, 2014

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Writing can offer solace and salvation.

From the October 2014 issue of Writer Magazine, “Writers on Writing,” Roxane Gay:

“Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.”

Marlene’s Musings: Sometimes we want to read something good, just like we want comfort food. We need you, Writers, to do your best to create those words that soothe and settle us.