42 is the Right Answer, Day 17
The idea is to give your creative subconscious a nudge – there’s a story in your head somewhere, you just need help in getting it down on paper. Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 17
Category: Creative writing
42 is the Right Answer, Day 16
Today’s Writing Prompt is: Change Write 350 words of flash fiction, or a 20-line poem inspired by this word. This is both a homonym (two different words with the same sound) and a homograph (two words with different meanings but the same spelling). So here we go: Loose change, change of circumstances, The Change, changing sides, change of scenery, sea change, sudden change, change of direction, change of heart, change of mind, change colour, change shape changing one’s tune, chop and change, make changes, change sides, change for the worse, change for the better, small change, change around, winds of … Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 16
42 is the Right Answer, Day 15
We’re going to your personal library for today’s creative writing prompt. Choose a book title at random and take that as your starting point for a new piece of work. You don’t have to base your writing on whatever the original book was about, just use the title as a stepping off point. To save you the bother of looking at your own books, here are some titles from my collection: Good Behaviour The Lonely Sea and Sky A Sense of Reality Burial Rites Memento Mori Breathing Lessons Wild Fire Second Fiddle Choose one (or several and mash them together) … Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 15
42 is the Right Answer, Day 14
Today, by way of your Day 14 creative writing prompt, you’re going to be an Agony Aunt. Dear Auntie, I am finding isolation very trying and it seems to be sapping my creativity. Although I have time to write, I find myself occupied with other trivial pastimes instead. I am spending too much time in the kitchen and have discovered an otherwise hidden talent for baking with yeast, which is not good for my waistline. The kitchen is the best room in the house for the Internet, so I often sit there to write, but I’m finding the distractions too … Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 14
42 is the Right Answer, Day 13
You might like to investigate writing a pantoum, a poetic form which allows for rhyme, rhythm and repetition. A pantoum often has 16 lines (it can have more), written in quatrains – four-line stanzas. Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 13
42 is the Right Answer, Day 12
Your prompt today is Write a 500 word Journal Entry I suggest (if you haven’t already) you get into the habit of writing something in a journal while we’re busy being isolated/locked down/working from home/distanced from our usual social circle. It may prove interesting to look back on. Some famous keepers of journals include Anne Frank, Leonardo de Vinci, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Sir Isaac Newton, Andy Wahol and Kurt Cobain, although I’m not suggesting you keep a journal for future publication, only for your own amusement. I have kept a journal one and off for most of my adult … Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 12
42 is the Right Answer, Day 11
Your April Fool’s Day Creative Writing Prompt: Clowning Around Obviously I’m going to want humour today, a funny story or poem – or better still, a sketch. This can be fact or fiction, but it must have humour at its … Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 11
42 is the Right Answer, Day 10
I’m looking for something longer today, a 1,800 to 2,000-word short story. This must be fiction, even if you are basing the story on something that happened to you in the past. Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 10
42 is the Right Answer, Day 9
Your task today is to free write (meaning just get down on paper or computer screen whatever comes to mind) as you think about… Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 9
42 is the Right Answer, Day 8
Your Day 8 Creative Writing Prompt: Respect Who has it? Who gives it? Who cares? Just for a change, I’m asking for an opinion piece today. Imagine you are writing for one of the ‘quality’, smart-arse magazines or newspapers. They want your unique take on what respect means to you and yours, in just 500 words. This is personal, so write in the first person (‘I’ and ‘me’, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’). Rant if you must, it might make you feel better in these trying times. To save you looking it up, the Oxford Dictionary definition of respect is: Noun … Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 8
