The Daily Writing Prompt is an idea nudge for writers. My goal is not always to get you started on a new story, but to also offer up small nudges that you might be able to incorporate into your current work. It is for any writer that is grasping around for how to make a scene progress or a writer who has found they are stuck and need just a small teaser idea for the muses to start musing from.
August 21st, 2008
I have been taking an online writing course, so I figured I would share information on it with my readers. The course I am taking is Holly Lisle’s How To Think Sideways. So far I am just starting to enter into week five of the course, and I am still very excited about the things that I am learning from it. I’m hearing thunder, so I am not posting more at the moment about it, but will get back to the course later on. Right now I need to shut the computer down before the storm gets here.
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August 15th, 2008
Chaos caused this blog, unfortunately, to be one of many that I have been lax in keeping updated. I think I have things, if not less chaotic, at least more organized now, so I am making the commitment once again to try and get out here once a day with a writing prompt. Thank you all for your patience.
Since I am here now, how about tossing a little chaos out as a prompt for today? Do something unexpected and chaotic in your story. Give your hero a reason to pause or make something totally unexpected cause them to not be able to go and do what they were about to go do for a little while. Don’t go tossing in a Dues Ex Machina, just rattle things with a little sprinkling of natural every day chaos. I’ll leave it up to you to think up what that might mean in the context of your story.
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May 21st, 2008
I’ve been having trouble getting this blog updated, starting with having lost the password to get logged in for posting ::wince::, then just being too busy to get my backside out here to sort out the password and get to posting once again.
I’ve got that all sorted out now, obviously, so I am getting back to posting here. Sincerest apologies for having vanished like that, it just happens sometimes and not much I can do but apologize when it does. Sorry.
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March 20th, 2008
Today’s prompt is to write a short story about a cabin. I have chosen that as the writing prompt for today because it was on March 20, 1852 that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published.
You should not try to recreate Uncle Tom’s Cabin, just write any kind of short story that features a cabin. It might be a trapper’s cabin, a cabin that someone has bought and is restoring, or an old abandoned cabin left over by the first colonists of another world.
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March 19th, 2008
Tomorrow is the first day of Spring, so how about adding spring into your story in some way? Maybe a springtime flower is discovered frozen in the ice where your Antarctica team is working (or in the ice on Europa in your Sci Fi novel). Does the heroine find a “welcome spring!” greeting card in a old book? Maybe your lead character is just thinking about the spring and wishing it was springtime?
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I would like to say that the muses work for free around here, but unfortunately there are some things that the Equal Rights for Muses Society (ERMS) has informed me of. They issued a rather lengthy document on fancy parchment written out by the muse scribes of their lawyers, but it basically said that the muses can not afford my prolificness. They say if I am going to write so much and make them work so hard, then they want me to provide support for their poor children. (Do you have any idea how many kids a wild jackalope muse has? ::faints::) I can't afford to support all of those little Jackalopes, so, I have chosen to place advertising on my sites. I try to keep it unobtrusive and I try to make sure it is about things that you want to find out about when I post the things into the journal/blog/newsletter entries, but, bottom line is, the muses have my hands tied. They won't let me write if they are not paid. I don't know who's idea it was to tell them about unions, but the suckers got good lawyers now. And that is why I have advertising on my websites and blogs.
Okay, so in reality, it is a simple mathematical equation of me needing to live and being unable to get work outside the home. You see, while the Daily Writing Prompt is a labor of love by a writer that can never get enough of writing, it is also by a writer that is a full-time family caregiver. Being a family caregiver is the highest stress unpaid job in the world, and for that reason there are advertisements on this site. There may even be advertisements in some of the postings, it is a necessary step to allow me to continue bringing you the daily prompts and the other writer related things I have for free and lets me buy food and clothing and pay bills and pay for my webhosting and other necessary things. Thank you for your understanding.
