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
Tag: flash fiction
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 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 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 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 6
Day Six Creative Writing Prompt: They had an understanding… Who did? When? Why? Who else knew? Was there corruption or immoral behaviour going on? Where? There doesn’t have to be a bad thing happening, but still… Was this a relationship between a child and grandparent, coach and footballer, dog and trainer, husband and wife, priest and housekeeper, artist and muse, butterfly and Buddleia? Your call. If this prompt triggers a piece of memoir, try adding historical detail to set the scene, without labouring the point. For example, you could mention an iconic hairstyle, piece of popular music, or mode of … Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 6
42 is the Right Answer, Day 5
Hold that thought. Because some time soon, I’ll also be dabbling with other Homonyms and Homophones. Oh yes… Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 5
42 is the Right Answer, Day 4
Let your imagination run free … Ah, go on! Something’s already sprung to mind, hasn’t it? Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 4
42 is the Right Answer, Day 3
…even memoir can work with this treatment, and a story or poem always seems very immediate and urgent if written this way. Although having said that, I could be lying, right? Continue reading 42 is the Right Answer, Day 3
