Writing Prompts for bloggers and novelists.

Writing Prompts for bloggers and novelists. 09/02/2010

Do you have a favorite prompt or one you made on your own jump starts your creative juices and stimulates your writing muse?

Everyone has a story in them. Even if you have never written anything longer than the inscription on personalized basketballs you would have an interesting story to tell and could weave into creative fiction with some help form a book like, No Plot, No Problem.

Oneword.com. is used by many writers.
From their home page:
Oneword.com wrote:simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following screen.
you have sixty seconds to write about it.
click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cursor in place.
don’t think. just write.

What prompts me to write:
I don't turn to words for prompts.
Remembering August 2010 was the first time since primary school that I have written fiction so I am no expert in how to write fiction, this is just what works for me.

I use life experience as the prompt for all writing.

If I am not getting at least a dozen ideas a day it would mean I am not out there, experiencing life enough.

If I feel stale and lack ideas at any stage, that's exactly what I do, put on the joggers or grab the car keys and get out there, I listen to people talk wherever I go, I'm interested in people's stories, interested in life, past and present history. Then once I choose a starting point from life, workout how I will change it from fact if writing fiction, I have all the prompt I need.

For my reference nonfiction prompts I just go for a walk or drive and write about what I see and experience.

All my blogging and booklet nonfiction is life experience.

My fiction writing ideas come easily because I am a late starter, I had been 'gunna-do-it', for 50 years so I already have 50 years of ideas stored away unwitting down, in my brain. It was getting a little crowded in there, about 5 novels waiting to come out, lol, I don't feel I need any site prompts, for the fiction I am going to draw on what has been an interesting and unusual life and just change and mix up the times places and people and learn how to make the characters larger than life so it's impossible to identify the actual life event that prompts me.

Whenever I read, what to write about chapters, in how to write books, most suggest writing about things you feel passionately about, and I guess I have a lot of opinions and passions about life, sensitive and emotional feelings and that is what I threw into my short story .
Unless that story drops a clanger when others read it, and the response so far has been good from most sources, that will be the way I write my novel, ‘Secret’, at the end of this year, drawing from life on an emotional and physical level but the characters themselves, fictitious.