http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com Writing prompts for speculative fiction writers of all ages. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:31:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en . . Go to Dragon Writing Prompts at Blogger All the old posts are there. Hope to see you there, too :-) You can also subscribe and get prompts through a news reader or delivered by mail Subscribe in your favorite news reader Email subscription http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/30/dragon-writing-prompts-has-moved/ Spend 15 minutes generating as many beginnings as you can. In 1 to 5 sentences — the fewer the better! — suggest that something is off and the character’s life is about to have a monkey wrench thrown into it. In other words, grab the reader right from the beginning. The ... http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/29/in-the-beginning/ Fast talking woman . What’s a warm up? http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/28/fast-talking-woman/ http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/27/when-i-start-a-book/ Tarot is so wrapped in mysticism that it comes across like a magical code to access another realm. It often seems if you don’t lay the cards in the exact right positions, you might as well be laying out Pokemon cards in random ways and just making the whole thing ... http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/26/tarot-for-writers/ Who’s the joke on . What’s a warm up? http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/25/whos-the-joke-on-2/ Do you have a protagonist/antagonist pair that you thought had the potential for a good story but they wandered about aimlessly? Perhaps a pair from one of your NaNoWriMo endeavors? Bring the two of them on stage with a moderator and let them hash out their differences. Have each tell their ... http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/24/the-great-debate/ Electric funeral . What’s a warm up? http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/23/electric-funeral/ “She was much too chipper for a woman with a room full of dead bodies beyond the locked door behind her.” Are the bodies legitimately there? Perhaps she’s a collector of …? Try on a fantasy setting. A future setting. A city store front. A lonely outpost. War time. A peaceful ... http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/22/beyond-that-smile/ Good girls gone bad . What’s a warm up? http://dragonwritingprompts.blogsome.com/2010/06/21/good-girls-gone-bad/