A Writing Prompt a Day Keeps Writer's Block at Bay

Once-daily creative writing prompts. Fills posted in between. Submissions taken.

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Useful Writing Resources

This is an extensive list of resources for every problem you could come across while writing/planning/editing your novel. Use it well;)

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Planning/outlining Your Work

How To Outline ***

Zigzag Method : Creating Plots

How to Plot a Romance Novel 

Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances 

Let’s talk about brainstorming

Writing Something With Meaning ***

Past Or Present Tense? : How To Decide

Writing Your Work

How To Write A Fabulous Chapter #1 ***

How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story 

The Big Book Of Writing Sex ***

6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy 

Romance Writing Tips ***

20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes

7 Ways To Speed Up Your Writing *** 

80+ Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High 

9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid 

Removing the Creeps From Romance

19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue ***

50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk ***

How To Write Action And Fight Scenes

10 Steps To Write Arguments

9 Ways To Write Body Language

Writing Good Kissing Scenes

Writing Murders

Create And Control Tone ***

Tips for Writing Ghost Stories

Incorporating Flashbacks

12 Tips To Avoid Overwriting ***

Characters

Behind the Name

Top Baby Names

Looking for a name that means a certain thing? ***

7 Rules of Picking Names

Most Common Surnames ***

Minor Character Development

Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains

Characters With Enhanced Senses

5 Tips to Help You Introduce Characters

How Do You Describe a Character?

How To Write Child Characters

36 Core Values For Building Character

Questions To Answer When Creating Characters ***

4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions

5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent

Character Archetypes

25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters

Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language 

33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters

Conveying Character Emotion 

How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…  

How to Create Powerful Character Combos

How To Describe A Character’s Voice ***

Describing Clothing And Appearance ***

Career Masterpost ***

Creating Your Character’s Personality ***

Character Flaws ***

Editing

DON’T EDIT>>> REWRITE THE WHOLE THING FIRST

Ultimate Guide To Editing Each Aspect Of Your Work ***

Why You Would Read Your Novel Out Loud ***

Grammar and Punctuation ***

How To Write A Captivating First Sentence

10 Things Your Opening Chapter Should Do: A Check-List for Self-Editing ***

Saving Your Story: Finding Where It Went Wrong

How To Condense Without Losing Anything

The Stages Of Editing

Dialogue/Description Balance

3 Proofreading Tips

The Short Story Form

Chapter & Novel Lengths

Anatomy Of A Novel : Chapters and Parts ***

How To Write Chapter After Chapter Until You Have A Book ***

Where Chapter #2 Should Start

Step By Step Guide To Editing Your Draft

Writing Tool: CTRL-F (How And Why You Should Use It) ***

How To Kill A Character

25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story

5 Ways To Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive ***

Setting

{Setting} How To Describe Setting In Your Stories ***

20 Questions To Enhance Setting

How To Bring Your Setting To Life

Miscellaneous Resources You Can Use In Between

How to Write from a Guy’s POV 

The Emotional Wounds Thesaurus

Text To Speech Reader

Compare Character Heights 

A Visual Dictionary of Tops

Writers Helping Writers

7 Tricks To Imrove Your Writing Overnight

Work Out/ Word Count : Exercise Between Writing ***

Most Important Writing Tips ***

Let’s talk about diversity in novels

Letting Go Of Your Story

Keeping A Healthy Writing Schedule And Avoiding Procrastination ***

How To Create A Good Book Cover

Write or Die

Tip of my Tongue

Character Traits Form

Online Thesaurus

Writing Sketchy/Medical/Law

Coma: Types, Causes, etc

Tips for writing blood loss

Gunshot Wound Care

Examples of Hospital Forms

Common Legal Questions

The Writer’s Forensics Blog

Brain Injury Legal Guide

Types of Surgical Operations

Types of Mental Health Problems

A Day in the Life of a Mental Hospital Patient

Global Black Market Information ***

Crime Scene Science

Examining Mob Mentality

How Street Gangs Work

Writers’ Block Help/ Productivity

Story Plot Generator

@aveeragemusings ‘ Cure To Writers’ Block ***

50 Romance Plot Ideas

Reading Like A Writer ***

Defeat Writers’ Block

Writing In A Bad Mood ***

Writers Block

When You’ve Lost Motivation To Write A Novel ***

What To Do When The Words Won’t Flow ***

9 Ways To Be A More Productive Writer

“I Cannot Write A Good Sentence Today” (How To Get Over It) ***

Real Writing Advice ***

Info You Need To Know & Words You Didn’t Think Of

A Writer’s Thesaurus ***

Words To Describe… ***

Words & Phrases To Use In Your Sex Scenes ***

Colors (An Extensive List Of Colors)

List Of Kinks & Fetishes ***

List Of Elemental Abilities

inkarnate.com : World Creator And Map Maker For Your Imaginary Setting

Body Language Phrases

List Of Legendary Creatures

How To Write Magic

Hairstyle References

Hemingway : Writing Checker

Body Types: Words To Describe Bodies and How They Move Around

Poisonous Herbs and Plants ***

The Psychology of Color

The Meaning behind Rose color

Types of Swords

Color Symbolism

How a handgun works

How to Write a Eulogy

Types of Crying

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes ***

Superstitions and More

The 12 Common Archetypes

Language of Flowers

12 Realistic Woman Body Shapes

Using Feedback And Reviews

Turning Negative Reviews Into Positive Ones ***

Proofreading Marks : Easy Symbols To Make Reviewing/Feedback Easier ***

Authonomy Teen Ink Figment Fiction Press ReviewFuse

These Are Trusted Critique Sites ;)

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For all the writers out there. Please reblog this!

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Prompt 1940. Jealousy is one hell of a drug.

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Prompt 1939. “Just because we’re metamours doesn’t mean we have to be friends.” “That’s sad. I love you both. I would like you guys to be friends.”

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Prompt 1938. Even if they weren’t together forever, that couldn’t cheapen the fact that they were together now.

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Prompt 1937. He had to be an adult. He couldn’t let his fear of abandonment get in the way of his boyfriend’s new relationship.

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Prompt 1936. She felt as if her wife’s insecurities were constantly forcing her to choose between her and her girlfriend. Wasn’t the point that she didn’t have to choose?

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Prompt 1935. She didn’t know which one of them was the father, but they would both be there to raise her child.

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Prompt 1934. There were two women who fit the mysterious shoe left at the ball. The only solution was to marry them both.

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Prompt 1933. “Yeah, we have a triple wedding coming up.” “Whoa, three couples decided to get married at the same time?” “No, no, it’s just three people getting married to each other.”

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Prompt 1932. Aliens have come to Earth. Humans took this as an opportunity to pretend to be something they are not.

Submitted by @joetrohwiththefro

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Prompt 1931. They died with a smile on their face. Unfortunately, they weren’t usually a happy person.

Submitted by @joetrohwiththefro

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Hi! I love your blog! Do you have like a list or something of college au? Or prompt based on college? I'm trying to write a story set in a isolated college - kinda old style college - but I'm laking ideas...if you can help me, I'll be very happy! Thanks

I’ll try to whip up some prompts. I don’t keep track of which prompts pertain to what subjects, and a Google search only turns up this prompt. 

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Hi! I just found this blog and I wanna say I think it'll be a really useful tool for me. I love writing a lot but recently have been getting some writer's block and I think this will inspire me and help me. Also you are wonderful~

Thank you! Happy writing!

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There are a few prompts about a dog-like cat. Is this based off of your cat by chance? Just thought it was funny lol. Love the blog by the way!

Yes, it is, thank you! I live with three cats and two of them have some dog-like traits.

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How does this blog work? If we fill a prompt, do you want us to submit it, or are we supposed to tag it, or do we only do that if we want to? If we use a prompt, should we link back? Sorry if you answered this somewhere before -- i didn't see it/couldn't find it

You can use these prompts however you like, and you don’t have to credit this blog. (I’m always excited when people do, but I get a kick out of being part of other people’s creative process.) You can choose to submit or @ this blog if you do want to credit me, but that’s mostly so that I can easily find and reblog it onto here. 

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Hi! I was just wondering what are a few (realistic) things that could happen during a high school lockdown?

It’s a drill. That’s the most likely thing. When I was in high school, sometimes our teachers would tell us that a drill (fire, tornado, lockdown) was scheduled and during what period so we would know ahead of time. Drills were never scheduled during lunch hours. I never got this courtesy when we had drills (fire, earthquake, lockdown) in elementary or middle school. 

Drills usually last ~10 minutes. The students are supposed to get under their desks and stay silent. Lights go out in the classroom. My high school classrooms didn’t have any windows at all (I think because Illinois gets a lot of snow and this would make it hard to heat the school. There was actually a rumor that my school was originally built as a prison - which was untrue, it was originally a middle school. But I had actual adults swear up and down it used to be a prison and claim they were there when it opened as a high school.) When I was in elementary school, all of my classrooms had large windows, lots of natural light, and no enclosed hallways. We had these thick plastic curtains that were on a track and had to be rolled across the windows. When I asked, my fifth grade teacher told me they were for protecting us from broken glass. I have no idea if they were bullet proof.

When I was in fifth grade, I was angry at my teacher (I actually think I had an anxiety attack, but I’m not sure) and so I didn’t come back from lunch. I literally just hid in the bathroom for 2-3 hours. It was literally the closest bathroom to my class and nobody bothered to check to see if I was there. It was even the closest bathroom to the front office. Eventually I calmed down and I wanted to go back to class. I was suspended (I think for five days?) and I wasn’t allowed to go to the restroom without another student for the rest of the year. I think they put the school on lockdown to look for me. My stepmom said they called the police and that I “couldn’t have been hiding in the bathroom because that’s the first place they look”. Joke’s on them, I guess. 

If it’s a legitimate lockdown, it might be because of something small, like an intruder on campus who managed to get past security but is unarmed, an intruder on campus who managed to get past security but is armed, a student reportedly being armed but they need a lockdown to search for weapons (or perhaps drugs), a student being armed and attacking others. Most high schools have security guards. For the few months I went to high school in California, there was no feasible way for security to check student IDs coming onto campus or search students belongings as they came in. It was a wide campus with multiple buildings and student parking lots as well as a community pool that was frequently utilized by gym classes. Security was mostly patrolling security guards who coordinated with the local police. In Illinois, there was a field and a single school building as well as a single parking lot for both staff and students. Everyone’s student ID was checked at the door. Non-staff and students had their state IDs checked and were directed to the office immediately. Security was four or five assistant principals in suits with walkie-talkies. I think if there were drugs or weapons involved, they would have to call the police to deal with it.

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[SUBMISSION] Prompt 1930. The crash

She looked at him with tired eyes, tired of being lied to, tired of loving but not being loved back. Her eyes begged for silence, his silence, his love, just one hug and she knew it would all be okay.

“I don’t think we should see each other anymore.” He said.

It was the fact that she loved him that kept her standing there in front of him, that kept her from falling to the floor. The love was poison in her veins, but it still gave her the strength not to cry to the floor that day.

“Don’t ever talk to me again.” She demanded.

“As you wish.”

She remembered all the good times they shared, sneaking out at 3 am, laying in the road, talking about the future together like they were going somewhere. Making out in the backyards of strangers, dancing to the music in their head. His rhythm met her hips, she wasn’t his first, but he was hers. To him it was sex, to her it was a gift, to him. A gift she can never ungive.

Discussed by the lies she walked away from him this day, he taught her something she will never forget.

Everyone deserves a second chance, but not everyone deserves a third one.

And no one, no one deserves a fourth one.

That night she washed her entire body of this boy she a thought she loved, she apologized and cried to her body for letting a stranger touch and fake love to it. “I will never do this to myself again” she promised.

And now she will move on. And him, oh one day he’ll realize that she’s rare.

~R~based on my own experiences.

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