Updated every day of Nano. You may need to scroll down to see today’s prompt.
I had a last minute NaNo inspiration that will help me. I tend to skip over description. So for each day of NaNo month I’ll send out a prompt to focus your attention on something you might not ordinarily notice in whatever scene you’re working on. The intent is not to generate great prose but to force you to expand your vision of what’s going on around and inside your characters.
Write at least one paragraph for the day’s prompt:
Today’s prompt:
7. In the next conversation, describe something the character is doing as they speak each line of dialogue.
Previous prompts:
- Describe your point of view (POV) character’s current emotional state and how it affects him or her from head to toe.
- Describe the shoes of the next character that walks into the scene and what they remind the POV character of.
- Describe the weather (or environment if weather isn’t relevant to your story) in the scene you’re writing right now. Involve all 5 senses.
- Relate something in your current scene to a toy from your POV character’s childhood.
- The current situation to your POV character is [fill in an animal]. Extend the metaphor. What in the situation are the teeth? Why is something like the breath? How does it relate to the sound the character makes? (And whatever else you can come up with. Use all five senses!)
- It starts raining (or stops raining). Describe the emotions *and* memories this evokes in your POV character.










