Writing Prompts To Enhance Creativity

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Writing Prompts

A writing prompt is a method,
word association, to stir-up
the creative process. Enhance
creative skills by keeping a
writing prompt on the night-
stand, mirror, door or anywhere
it can be seen frequently.

A writing project centered on
fashion, for example, means
fashion related writing prompts
are situated around your space.

Keep great fashion ideas written
by the bed. New dress ideas are
pasted to the mirror. I'm going
to have a creative day is
plastered to the front door.

Quotes, remarks, from a favorite
designer can adorn the television.

You'll reach a destination ready
to work.

Quotes are writing prompt sources,
and ideal for bursts of writing
ideas. Take a look at the
following quote.

"You must, first, believe in
yourself."

Read it out-loud, more than once.
Get a feel for the words. Make
yourself comfortable with them.
Don't just say them. Live them.

Spin the words around your mind.
How can you use the words
toward creativity?

Start writing about the quote.
Apply it to a specific writing
project, or just scribble
anything. The more you write,
ideas will come to mind.
Later, go back to edit.

A suggestion is to write five
hundred words before getting up.

Look at my view about the quote.

I believe in my creative skills.
My writing skills are advancing.
I'll write better tomorrow.

It means nothing that nay-sayers
and doubters repeat, "You won't
make it as a writer."

An idea popped to mind as I was
writing.

A novelist on the last chapter
develops writer's block. He/she
tried exercises, games, to no
avail. The publisher was pushing
when suddenly...

The point is jotting information
down about a quote can lead to
an interesting writing idea.

Writing prompts don't stop there.
Any word can spark a writing idea.
Simply, open your senses to
enhance creativity.

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The Game To Ignite Writing

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A Writing Game
Select any word from a corner of your
mind, out of the room you're in, some
word heard during the day or a word
that plucks at your attention.

Take some time to twirl it around your
creative process. Here is where you
determine how the word rolls into a
writing project.

My word from the game to ignite writing
is wine.

You'll need a total of five words. Mix-in
four more words related to the original
word.

My original word is wine. Soothing, wet,
cold and relaxing float to my mind that's
related to wine. Or, they are four words
that work well with wine.

The words can be shuffled in any direction:
fiction, non-fiction or poems.

The following demonstrates how my words can
be used in the game to ignite writing.

"Fannie stopped by last night in the cold rain,
bottle of wine in hand." Fran sat in her
L-shaped kitchen across the table from her
sister, Freda.

"You know how I feel 'bout her," Freda said.

"She and the bag were really wet, limp even."

"How could she be limp?"

"I mean Fannie couldn't relax, kept peeking
through the living room's curtain." Fran sighed.
"Nothing I said soothed her.

"I think she's..."

The above story can ride-out in a short story
or novel.

Take a look at the poem centering around my
words.

In a wet twenty below

Sunny Minnie-

Wobbles down the street

Trying to get back,

Clutching her bottle of cold wine

To sooth her memories of life,

While each pain relaxes numb.

The game to ignite writing will help you
produce fiction, non-fiction or poems.
Put your own spin on it. Let me know how
the game to ignite writing helped you. Or,
it offered no help?

Writing Prompts: What Are They?

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A writing prompt is a technique, word(s)
association, to wake-up your creative
process.

Some people keep writing prompts by
their beds to start the day off. They need
the stimulation before they’re seated in
their writing places. It gives them an extra
boost.

How Writing Prompts Work

Writing prompts can be a favorite quote,
remarks heard, something in a journal or
a phrase.

Someone awakened from a night’s rest, for
example, and scanned his/her journal.

A motivating phrase, word, is selected, and
then he/she goes through his/her routine.

The phrase, word, is swirled around the mind,
to form writing ideas, plots or poems.

Actual Writing Prompts

“I wish they would only take me as I am.”
Vincent Van Gogh

“History repeats itself, and that’s one of
the things that’s wrong with history.”
Clarence Darrow

“Ideas are the root of creation.”
Ernest Dimnet

“You must, first, believe in yourself.”
Marcella Glenn

Discussion Of A Writing Prompt: “Ideas
are the root of creation.”

Read it out-loud, several times. What does
it mean to you? What comes to mind after
reading it?

Write anything, everything, that springs
to mind. Will you write a story? Poem? Do
research for a non-fiction piece?

Goal

Write 500 words about the quote, or take
the quote to any length you’re comfortable
with. Twist your idea down a new road. Be
creative.

Use More Than One Quote

Take more than one quote, prompt, to work with.
Look at every quote upside down and inside out.

Critique Later.

Once your piece is done, put it away. Work on
something else, or start a new project.

A break is needed to came-back to a project
refreshed. You’re better able to spot errors.

Let me know your results.

Writing prompts add the necessary spark to your
creative process.