June 26 Writing Prompt
As we are now in the weekend, it is time to have a little more fun and a little less learning. But… You know me by now, and there is always some type of lesson here. So let’s get into...
Piecing Together Your Writing Future
As we are now in the weekend, it is time to have a little more fun and a little less learning. But… You know me by now, and there is always some type of lesson here. So let’s get into...
Ahhh Friday, the final day of work before the weekend (unless you work weekends) and a chance to unwind for a long and tedious week. Unless you’re a writer. In which case, you have a lot of work ahead of...
I don’t really like you. In fact, I am fairly confident that if I gave it a moment’s thought at all, I would hate you. There are no redeeming qualities. Always coming around asking for help. Making sure everyone around...
I can’t believe it is Wednesday already. Mid week and the next to last Wednesday in the month. A week left before we hit July and start summer vacations, celebrations and whatever extroverts do outside. But, I digress. We have...
Today’s writing prompt is going to be a little different. The hidden lesson today is to remember to have fun. Writing is a hobby or a career and either one should be entertaining, fun and even exciting. Sure, boredom and...
Today I want to cover a little part of writing that every writer, author or aspiring scribe should learn. How many actually do, though? About none of us. It is called the elevator pitch, and it is something you should...
Today’s writing prompt is a two-part lesson. In one aspect it is great practice in rewriting and “copying” from the masters. The second part is a lesson in creativity that we can all relearn from time to time. So how...
Today is the start of a good weekend. It has a lot of potential, many words can be written. Of course, that includes Father’s Day in North America and the official start of summer. What better time of year to...
This Friday we are once again looking at the end of a week, and continuing from yesterday’s prompt, the end of our stories. This prompt is something I like to do when I near the end of a long book...
As we start to get near the end of this week, I am reminded of nearing the end of a story. One of the things you must do as an author is tie up all the loose ends. If you...
This week we are looking at oddities of adding to our stories. Yesterday, for example, we added sci-fi and fantasy elements to our other-genre stories. Today, I want to push things a little bit further. If you are seriously into...
Another day and we are working this week on fantasy and sci-fi aspects of all writing. If you are unaware, fantasy and science fiction elements aren’t limited to those genres. Also, unless your novel or script is primarily comprised of...
Over the last couple of weeks we have covered writing breaks and how to get back into the swing of things. We also covered a new editing technique for self-editing. This week, we will look at another continuing trend, anthropomorphization....
Another Sunday writing prompt and like yesterday, we are shooting for brevity. A quick, simple prompt designed to get you in the writing mode, ready to go and able to knock out your Sunday progress of your WiP. So, here...
A weekend writing prompt without a huge written lesson or hidden meaning? Can it be? It can. And it is. This may be the shortest DWP yet. Just have fun with it, enjoy, and then get back to your projects...
Finally Friday! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Although, to be quite fair, the actual days of the week mean little to me anymore. One of the joys of working from home is that you can make your own schedule. Currently, my schedule...
Today’s writing prompt is simple. The goal is to get you to think about your own work in a new light and by doing so, you can see any holes, shortcomings or other issues when you reread it for editing....
Good writing is all about adaption and change. Sure we all have a favorite genre or two to write in, but that will only take you so far. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not saying you need to...
Back in the swing of things, now. Yesterday’s writing prompt got us writing again after a hiatus. Let’s continue the trend then. For today’s writing prompt we are going to go old school once again. Staying in form and character...
Welcome to another exciting week here on the DWP side of the blog. Today, I want to get back to creativity a bit and return to fiction writing. For those that are interested, or missed it, last week we covered...
For the final daily writing prompt this week on copywriting, we will take a look (and practice) one more basic strategy. In case you are taking this week in reverse-chronological order, we have covered quite a bit. We started by...
Today, we will continue our week long dive into the shallow end of copywriting. In case you missed it, we covered a couple of the basic copywriting formulas (AIDA and PAS) and defined what copywriting is. For the newsletter subscribers,...
As we continue this week of copywriting introductions, let us continue with writing formulas. I want to point out one thing, and hopefully this little thing will stick in your mind a bit. Copywriting is a job, and as a...
More copywriting? More copywriting. Today’s main blog post helped define the term copywriting and is a crash course into the introduction of the craft. This week on the daily writing prompts, we have looked at ads and the AIDA approach....
Let’s continue our progress with copywriting! If you missed the first day, we covered spotting the customer journey through an advertisement or blog post. Usually in an attempt to get them to take an action. AIDA is one of the...
One thing we haven’t done a whole lot of here on the blog, is talk about copywriting. I figured I would dedicate this week to the craft and hopefully help some of you decide if this is a career you...
Oh no! The end of the weekend! Ahhhh! One last push to get things done. One more day without the pressure of a time clock. Once again we find outrselve looking for a need to be creative. That is what...
Hooray! It is the weekend! We had a tough week here on the writing prompt side of the blog. It was a lot of personal work on your own project without much extra creativity. Let’s change that. For the weekend,...
For the end of this week, we have touched on various aspects of details and identifying weaker spots of your writng as well as properly taking story notes. Today, we will venture a little further down the pike and look...
Details, details, details. That is what we are on about today. When you hear talk about details, you probably react like most aspiring authors. You want to equate details with adjectives. This isn’t always the best course of action, though....
The middle of the week is here! It’s hump day! Did you see how observant I was just there? If that isn’t a great segue, I don’t know what is. That’s right, today’s writing prompt is all about observations. I...
In yesterday’s writing prompt we covered the best way to utilize an idea notebook. Today I want to take it a step further and show you the best methods for note taking on a current project. Instead of the idea...
As we begin our work week, it is important to understand that there are priorities in life. Surprisingly, I will tell you that unless you are writing for a living your novel or screenplay may not be the most important...
Here we are again, staring into the abyss that is Monday looming. Hopefully you spent your Saturday writing a lot of words in your WiP. Today, you have the chance to get even more done. If you feel you need...
Weekend fun-day! No, wait, that doesn’t work. Well, whatever, it’s is the weekend and it is time to have fun! Most of the week previous we have covered ways to stay busy and productive, even if we can’t work directly...
As we round out the week and look forward to tomorrow’s start of the weekend, we also round up a mini-theme week. All week long (and quite unplanned, to be honest), we covered ways to stay productive. Let’s keep that...
The weekend is almost here, folks. Hopefully you are gearing up for a long weekend of working on your projects. After the house work is done and the lawn is mowed, you can sit back, relax and write a lot...
As we close out the middle of the week and start looking forward to the weekend, our writing prompts continue. Most of the week, we have worked on getting things done. Doing work and making progress on our WiP. Today,...
In the week of getting your ass to work, I think it is going well. With the warmer days and months coming up, you are bound to go on holidays and vacations. Take day trips to the beach and enjoy...
The first official work day in May this year, and we have work to do. Your writing isn’t going to complete itself and those ideas in your head will stay there unless you do something. So, today’s writing prompt is...
As we continue the new month, we will continue with simple weekend writing prompts. No big huge hidden lesson this time, again. We will save that for tomorrow. For now, how about we have a nice cozy little Sunday warm...
Welcome to May! Since it begins on a weekend this year, we will do a bit more practice writing with the prompts. I am still pondering a new theme week, but there is much more I need to write about...
We end the month at the end of the week, it’s like a sign or something. Since May is fast approaching and this week has been one of little prompts with tiny lessons, let us continue the trend. Besides, I...
Hello again! It is a beautiful day here and I hope when you look out your window it is something you enjoy seeing out there, too. For me, it is all about sunshine, ocean breezes and salty air. If you...
Welcome to the middle of the week! I don’t know about the rest of you, but the last week of the month is generally very busy for me. I do a lot of client work still and it usually falls...
Writers read. It’s just a fact. Some read a lot more than others, but at some point you wanted to tell a story because you read a great one in a book somewhere. Screenwriters read scripts. Their passion came from...
As a new week dawns, so shall our new daily writing prompts. No theme this week, but if you missed it we did do a week on writer’s voice and another themed week on story ideas. This week will be...
As we wrap up the themed Ideas Week, we take one last look at arguably the hardest part of writing. That’s right. Today we will learn how to discard a bad idea. As a writer, I know how easy it...
No idea is a unique idea. Or so they say, I am not sure. What I am sure about though, is that you can find a story similar to yours, an idea like yours or even a whole series that...
Let’s keep moving forward in our Ideas Week writing prompts. We have already started a new idea, learned if it is a good idea and figured out if that idea was good enough for a full length novel. Today we...
So far in Ideas Week, we have looked at starting with a raw idea. We have also learned how to identify, early on, if that idea is a good one. Today, we are going to take it one step further....
It is Ideas Week here on the blog and yesterday we talked about the raw idea. This is the term I use for an unedited, initial idea that you think will make a great story. Today, we will work with...
Welcome to Sunday! After the theme week we ran on writer’s voice, I decided to do it again. This week we will look at making stories. But not just any stories. This week we will find out what makes an...
Greetings, fellow humans! And hello to the rest of you. As it is the weekend, I plan to write a lot of words. Some of them for fun, some for pay and others just because. I’m not sure what you...
Heading into the weekend and I can’t tell you how excited I am about that. There will be a slew of words written and hopefully some of them by me. One thing I have noticed going on a lot lately...
And here we enter the second half of the month. I don’t know about you, but this month has been nothing but rain and yuk where I am. The “being forced inside by the weather” excuse is a great one...
Another day, another chance to write more words! Are you excited? I’m excited. Writing words is something you should love to do. Even on days when you don’t want to write, the idea of it should still excite you. As...
Today’s writing prompt is brought to you by the letters A and P and by the number 14. Of course, this isn’t Sesame Street and we aren’t going to have puppets pop up and teach you life lessons using those...
Another week dawns and we have work to do! I was going to do another theme week, but we still have people catching up on last week’s lessons on writer’s voice. So, instead we will do another small lesson and...
I will admit this one almost got by me. Almost 10 pm local time and I completely spaced the WP today. But here I am! I remembered and we are still in today, so let’s get to it. Yesterday we...
Last week we covered the writer’s voice theme. This weekend, we will take a little break and just have some average and normal writing prompts (whatever those are). I did like the theme aspect, though. With the standard Thursday blog...
As we wrap up this week on writer’s voice, there is one last lesson I want to impart upon you. Like I am some wordsmith wielding a handcrafted steel quill, touching your shoulders as you kneel before me. Also, please...
Voice is the topic of the week, and as of today, the Thursday main blog covers the definitions, examples and understanding a little more in depth. For the writing prompt, though, we will go a different direction and practice more...
As we continue our dive into the writer’s voice week of lessons, we turn back to understanding. In today’s prompt we will work more with identification and manipulation. Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? When you can learn to identify the various...
Yesterday we set out to define and identify writer’s voice. Today we continue on with our week long lessons about voice and how to harness it’s powers to make our readers love us (or at least our books). I am...
A new week is upon us, and you and I have some things to discuss. All 7 blog posts this week will be focused around a central aspect. That means all 5 writing prompts will have a little lesson about...
It is Easter Sunday today. I have a brisket in the smoker for me and the puppers. Also, it is time to get some writing done. What? You thought I would give you the day off? Not a chance? (mom...
It is the first weekend in April. Easter, for those of you that do things like celebrate. And for the writers it is a chance to get some words done without many interruptions. To that point, and since we just...
We will conclude our naming things week with the inside of your book. Those little pause pages that everyone thinks are so important. Of course, I am talking about your chapters. Should you name your chapters? To be honest, it...
The greatest writing prompt of them all, ever. It is right here. No special lesson today. This writing prompt is so good it needs nothing else. April 01 Work on your damn book/screenplay/script and don’t worry about anything else. That’s...
The last day of the year! Oh, it’s only March? Still? Are you sure? Okay, well what ever it is, it is almost over. And today we will continue to name things. Shall we look at characters today? I think...
Almost the end of yet another month! I don’t know about you, buy March has crawled by and seemingly lasted for at least a full year or two. I am glad to see the back end of it. With that...
Good morning fellow kids! The big theme this week is about names. Your name, the book’s name, your characters names, we will cover it all. But how can we make naming things into a writing prompt? Well, you leave that...
Greetings, kids! Today’s writing prompt is more on track and should be a good one. You can always let me know what you think in the comment section, if you disagree! For March 28th, I want to cover a new...
Today’s writing prompt is all about keeping your readers in your story. As you may be aware (and if not, pay close attention today), there are many things that can remove a reader from your story. We, as writer’s, spend...
Today is a little different. It may be the weather. Not sure. What I do know, though, is that the writing prompt today is going to be a little challenging for most of you. A challenge, you say? I do....
This week we have been all over the map. Yesterday was sad, so, so sad. Today we will once again look at another writing term that deserves some attention. This term, though isn’t about you as a writer, it is...
It’s hump day! And while I am still trying to figure out the correct connotation for that phrase, let us move on to a more writing-focused term. The term I want to cover today is emotion. And yes, we have...
Yesterday has come and gone and here we are, starring into the abyss of the next one. Have you ever felt groggy? Even after waking up, doing your morning routine, maybe going for a walk or having a second cup...
I’ve debated back and forth about what to cover as the mini hidden lessons in this week’s writing prompts. I still haven’t decided. But that’s okay. Until I do, we will just have another fun little prompt and I will...
Another end of the weekend and another chance to have some fun. And have I got a great prompt for you today. The lesson is about correlation. By definition, correlation is the apparent relationship or connection between two things. How...
In our quest for daily writing prompts for a year, we come to March 20th. This entire week we have covered point of view (in the various forms that it represents). But this weekend, we will return to a more...
For today’s writing prompt we will take one last look at POV. This is one you may not expect, though. The Point of View we are going to examine is yours, the writer. As the producer of the work, you...
Good evening, scribes. It is late tonight, so I won’t waste much time getting to the point for today’s writing prompt. We’ve covered a lot this week. Everything from using deus ex machina to justifying our bad guys, and all...
For today’s writing prompt I want to cover a single word. That word is the basis for many things in life, including writing. One small word that has multiple facets. It can be a catalyst, something to push you, give...
What a long and crazy week this has been. I am glad it’s ove… what? It’s only Tuesday? That doesn’t bode well. Well, we take what we are given and we make the best of it, right? So, here we...
Over the weekend, we covered a couple of aspects of point of view. One had you start to think like another person, and the other showed you how important POV can be to your story. I was going to continue...
Happy Sunday, y’all! I hope your weekend went well and that you are gearing up for a productive week. Today’s writing prompt is a little more of the same from yesterday. There we learned how to write from someone else’s...
For today’s writing prompt, I want to go a little more traditional. Since it is the weekend and we should be having fun. What we will deal with, though is point of view. Not so much in actual writing, though....
As another week draws to a close, we continue our look at breaking writing rules. We have one final “rule” to look at today and it is a big one. I am sure you have heard the phrase “show don’t...
Another day in the week and another writing rule to examine and break. What could be better? The meat and bones analogy. Almost all writers will hear (or use) the analogy of building a human with writing. I, myself, use...
Today will be a short lesson and prompt, I’m afraid. It seems I have come down with a touch of the brown bottle flu. I am still here to give you a daily writing prompt, though, so you have little...
We covered a bit about writing “rules” and I want to go back over that some more with you today. One of my favorite rules to break is from Stephen King. As a fellow horror and suspense author, I listen...
On the regular blog we talked about chapter length. We also covered rule breaking here on the DWP side of the blog. Today, I want to take a look at the two, combined, and see what we can come up...
Let’s not think about tomorrow being a workday. Instead, I have a fun little writing prompt for you to work on. But before we get into it, I want to cover something. I want to point out a common saying....
Another week come and gone and here we are facing yet another weekend. The good news is they keep coming. The bad news is they keep coming. Weekends are an important time for many writers. You may be off from...
As another week comes to a close, we continue talking about endings. We have covered the shock ending for both scenes/chapters and entire stories. And we covered harnessing emotions as well as why adding facts to our fiction makes it...
Aloha and welcome! I remember the first time I stepped off the plane in Hawaii. I didn’t want to be there and everyone was so happy. Every employee at the airport said the same thing: Aloha and welcome! We had...
We’ve talked all week about endings and how to shock your reader the right way. Today, I want to shift gears just a bit and focus on another aspect of your readers. Namely, their emotions. If your book is written...
Endings! That is where we are this week. At least, you know, for now. Yesterday we worked on adding surprise to the end of a chapter/scene instead of relying on giving the readers questions. Shock and Awe is a good...
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