Pumping Your Muse Prompts
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Tags writing, writer, prompt, muse, help, Pumping Your Muse, Donna Sundblad, Sundblad
Daily writing prompts to help writers engage their creative muse and discipline the writing habit.
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- Details and Setting on Nov 23, 2009 in setting pumping your muse writing
In writing, small details make setting come to life. They draw the reader in with visuals. These details can also set the scene within a time in history. For example consider something as simple as a clock. If you read a scene about a young wife wind...
- Feed the Senses on Nov 21, 2009 in prompt pumping your must
Using sound is one way to reach your audience's senses and pull them into your story. Today's prompt is a first sentence that includes sound:Pumping Your Muse PromptStart a short story with this sentence:Hot bath water seeped into my ears and magnifi...
- Scary Story on Oct 7, 2009 in pumping your muse scary story
Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha. It's the time of year for scary stories. Whether you write fiction or nonfiction there's just something fun about trying to write a scary story with a beginning middle and an end that leaves your readers thinking and maybe even a li...
- Character Depvelopment on Oct 4, 2009 in character pumping your muse prompt
Character development is an important aspect of any story, whether it's a short story or a novel length project. For today's post take an existing character from a work in progress or use it to start a new story.Pumping Your Muse PromptWrite a scene...
- Fact Stranger than Fiction on Sep 22, 2009 in Donna Sundblad pumping your muse
Many days I hear things in the news that make me think, "If this happened 30 years ago, people would say, 'That would never happen.'" Today's prompt will be stimulated by news I came across in recent days.Pumping Your Muse PromptIf you want to write...
- Pumping Your Muse Story Starter on Sep 6, 2009 in pumping your muse
It's a holiday weekend and what a great time to write a story. Here's a story starter prompt for today. Place your story in this setting:Pumping Your Muse PromptIn a kingdom of secrets, in an era of danger and lies, two travelers and a philosopher ho...
- It's Alive on Aug 24, 2009 in pumping your muse
Before we talk about today's prompt, I want to point you to a story based on the Flyswatter prompt from last week. The Day of Small Things can be found on "My Scattered Stories". It has a Twilight Zone feel to it, so if you like that kind of thing, b...
