Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we are working on character development. Each Sunday, we start on a new prompt theme for the week. Read our opening post for this week’s prompts here. Today’s prompt: Fiction Writers: Come up with a list of places your character has lived. Write about how each place changed them. What friends did […]
Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, let’s work on character development. There seem to be a million different opinions on how to develop a character, a million different character development worksheets available (just type in “character development worksheet” on your favorite search engine and see for yourself) and a million different opinions on how to create […]
Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on writing setting. Today, we will focus on how you can use setting to create or increase conflict. If you know your character’s backstory, you can put them in places that cause them distress to see how they might react, or you can set a scene in a […]
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Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on writing setting. Today, I want you to show how a character’s internal world affects how they perceive their external environment. Today’s prompt: Write the set-up for two scenes: In the first scene, a character walks outside one day feeling a certain way. In the second scene, that same […]
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Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on setting. If you need to catch up, read the full instructions on this week’s prompts. Today’s prompt: Write a scene in which your character feels the following mood while in the setting listed below: Setting: An Amusement Park Mood: Humble You can post your daily writing exercises […]
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Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on setting. I want you to describe that setting from that character’s (or your) point-of-view while that character is experiencing a certain mood and while using more sensory detail than simply sight. You don’t have to use all five senses but include at least a […]