In honor of Saint Patrick's Day, my proud Irish heritage, and my deep, inordinate love for Dungeons and Dragons, here's the usual set of seven prompt fragments to kick off your next writing exercise. (Camp Nano is just around the corner, remember-don't let it sneak up on you!)
Tag: writers
The Genre Masquerade
I've heard a lot of writers (myself included) worrying about how to put their genre-blending novel into a demographic category without pigeonholing their writing. But defining genre depends on what you want to emphasize.
Writer Confessions
The writing process is certainly a process, but one the writer is only halfway in control of. There are certain things people just don't tell you about being a writer, mostly because you'll think you're being fancifully duped. For instance...
7 Microprompts for Valentine’s
A short list of (vaguely) thematically connected elements and phrases to celebrate Valentine's Day being officially over.
From Someone Who’s Never Had a Child (But is Having Their First Novel)
In the process of carrying both human children and burgeoning novels, you undergo strange transformations of self. You might deviate between being suffused with life and wonder (it's really happening, look at this thing I'm making!) and being swamped in moody fatalism (goddammit shit I'm doing everything wrong where did my slippers go).
Editing: The Slasher Flick
I put on a clown mask. I pick up a knife; I rev the chainsaw. I develop an ominous, repetitive background track out of nowhere. I stake out the house with the lingerie-lounging babysitters, I lurk around the cabin with the campers magnetically repelled away from their safety in numbers, and stare in the windows of...