- Begin a new project. Don’t work on the old stuff today!
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- Use the following words: clockwork, basket, yipping, among, spoon.
- Write about a bridge.
- Write about dubious wisdom.
- The code doesn’t work and the clock is ticking.
- Write about a town called Sin.
- The date on the check was right but the total wasn’t.
- An easily escapable situation your MC can’t seem to escape.
- “If you don’t want drama, stop buying tickets to the show.”
- A toasted cheese sandwich for lunch plus the perfect side item… (?).
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- Use the following words: turns, wearing, variations, framed, reveal.
- Bob: “I hate pithy.”
- sydney: “Thirteenth paring.”
- toxicfur: Your point-of-view character has lost all ability to communicate.
- bo: “How tired I am of words,” she said.
- aethucyn I survive entirely on ______ and the ________ of others.
- sabeth: Write about something that is saved up and never used.
- Sue: use “kissed a frog”
- ana: Write about a talking bird
- firesnake: Include an internet meme. (LOLcats, double rainbow, all your base, whatever.)
- The distant train whistle sounds through the bare woods.
- A pleasant debate takes a personal turn for the MC.
- “Why don’t you take your tree down until January 12?”
- Write the story behind a character’s tattoo or scar.
- Your story begins as the MC leaves a salon or barbershop with a drastic look.
- Get unstuck: have your MC become either predator or prey.
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- Use the following words: mostly, fewer, necessary, drag, puffed.
- Write about a moment of choosing to accept one’s destiny.
- “Good night, my little were-kangaroos of joy.” (Apologies to Warren Ellis, who tweeted this phrase).
- Add a small town politician into your mix of characters.
- Write a revenge story (without including any backstory).
- He brought her a roast beef sandwich and a Harry Potter Blu-Ray.
- Use red and blue as inspiration or theme for a story or poem.
- “How about a nice hot cup of shut the ___ up?”
- The girl next door used to be a CIA agent in Kiev.
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- Use the following words: saddest, rolling, table, burnt, handful
- Write about a teapot in a tempest.
- Fill in the blanks: “_______ is the opposite of ________”
- “I don’t know what it is but it’s not the old lady’s ghost up there.”
- A celebrity goes to the grocery store to buy bananas and bread.
- The entry port froze solid as he slipped inside the station.
- “It could be worse. I could be Sting.”
- A character searching for ways to remove blood stains from carpeting.
- Two men in dress shirts meeting for coffee at the bookstore.
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- Use the following words: deviate, failing, maple, could, critters.
- Write about something that happened a significant number of years ago.
- Use the phrase, “You’re just jealous of my superpower.”
- “Hold it right there. I ain’t finished.”