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To most people in the literary field, writer’s block is a familiar concept. Some could argue that it’s only a state of mind we put ourselves into to procrastinate, and others say that it seriously hinders their writing. Whatever your stance, this ‘story’ is going to be full of prompts, ideas, and suggestions. Whether you feel like a challenge, or really are stuck, try a few things out in no particular order.
Try to write a paragraph without using the letter ‘e’. Better yet, write a paragraph describing an object that has the letter ‘e’ in them.
There is a pink flamingo, being led by large show. The pair approaches you, and begin to talk in fluent English about the different types of keyboards.
Write from the POV of an inanimate object. Ones that I’ve found to be interesting include gum erasers, and mirrors. To each their own though
Participate in an act of People Watching. (If you don’t know what this is, check out chapter 9 of The light shall not pass through.
Take a brand name. Now make it into an Anagram for something else. A name of a person, the name of a hospital or particular medicine. Write about this Anagram.
This is one you’ll have to keep secret from your friends, pick one of your friends and write a narrative in their POV of all the things that they don’t like about you.
Write a paragraph about anything. Now re-write it in all the other point of view’s you can think of.
Personify your inner editor, your self doubt, your creativity, and your paranoia. Write out a conversation that they have.
Write out a really long alliteration.
Write a really detailed physical description of someone else without using the really obvious thing (i.e. They have glasses, brown hair, etc) and see if someone who knows this person can guess if it is them
Take the time to make a list about all the things that you dislike in a story
Consider what kind of a novel you’d like your life to be.
Go to the website of Snopes, pick an urban legend not in the top ten, and write at least a page on it.
Write an explanation that you know isn’t the truth for a natural phenomena. Make it believable.
Take a cliché; Handsome prince rescues damsel in distress, and turn it around so that it doesn’t follow the pattern; ugly peasant girl tries to save prince but gets eaten by dragon
Take out the phone book or some random directory, pick a name, and write that person’s life story. Similar to People Watching, but not quite.
Go lock yourself (or just close the door if you don’t have a lock) in the smallest bathroom in the place where you live. Imagine what you would do if you couldn’t get out using the door, and no one would be home for at least a day.
Using the tool of our dear friend Google, search a random word for a news story. Take the name of the journalist of the first story that shows up and without reading the article write on what you imagine them to be like.
Ponder the story, of an English man buried in China, his gravestone untouched and carved in English.
Where would you run if you killed a sibling/parent/friend? Write about your attempt of escape.
Make a simile as brilliant as the blinding light of the sun. Only, one that makes sense.
What does NOTAM stand for? Seriously, write a letter to me explaining it because I just don’t understand.
Take your age, multiply it by three, subtract eight, and divide it by two. Write from the view point of a character that age.
Imagine that you are a beggar on a street corner, cardboard sign in your hand. Why are you there, and what exactly are you begging for?
Go and review five people you don’t know. Give them on compliment and one constructive criticism. Wait an hour, and then think back on what aspects you enjoyed of some of them.
