Prompt: Fear or Thrill?
This week’s prompt from the Write the Book podcast is to imagine a creepy scenario that has always frightened you and write from the...
30 Magnificent MacGuffins
Does your Indiana Jones need an Ark of the Covenant? Does your Sam Spade need a Maltese Falcon? Your Darth Vader an R2D2? A post...
Salvation at the End of a Gun
Murder by Gaslight shares the tragic tale of Salvation Army Captain Hattie Smith, murdered in Nebraska in 1891. After an event honoring a French...
Dead Space
This one is gross. Sorry.
In a post on Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer delves into the U.S./Soviet space race to find a bizarre story about...
Archaeologist Finds God
A team of archaeologists have found a lead tablet that could be the oldest known sample of Hebrew text. Discovered at Mount Ebal in...
The Copper Man Buried with All the Amber
A team of archaeologists from Petrozavodsk State University in Russia discovered the burial site of a Copper Age man who was buried with more...
Prompt: Pick Two
During his interview with the Write the Book podcast, Toby Bell suggests choosing two of the following five sentences and using them as the...
The 17th Century Man in the Moon
In a post on Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer writes about the first attempt to reach the moon, which was mounted in the late 1600s.
John...
When Did You First Feel Terror?
This week's Write the Book prompt was suggested by guest Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth, a historical novel featuring John Wilkes Booth. Fowler...
You Read it Here First
In an article for Writer's Digest, Erica Plouffe Lazure says that a good newspaper offers both ideas and craft techniques for fiction writers. "Any writer...
