Prompt: What About the Weather?
Another Write the Book prompt was suggested by the podcast's interview with Jim Carrier (Charity: The Heroic and Heartbreaking Story of Charity Hospital in Hurricane Katrina),...
Prompt: What is Orbiting This Star?
According to the Daily Grail, astronomers have discovered a ring of planetary debris that appears to contain 65 moon-sized structures orbiting close to a...
Prompt: A Cult on the Wane
This prompt is suggested by the Write the Book podcast's interview with Rachel Urquhart about her novel The Visionist.
Invent a group that has diminished from a large,...
Does Your Story Need a MacGuffin?
Thrillers and mysteries - and many other kinds of stories - rely on MacGuffins: an object or event that motivates the characters and figures...
That’s No Goat…
According to The Tribune, a drunk priest in Valasapalle, India, beheaded a man instead of a goat during Sankranti, a celebration of the deity Surya....
The Cursed Ferry of Kentucky
Any half-knowledgable reader of fantasy, horror, or mythology knows to be wary of ferry crossings and their guides. A post on Mysterious Universe shares...
Is There An Imposter in Your Story?
JSTOR Daily shares the sordid tale of George Psalmanazar, a white man from France who claimed to be a Christian convert from Formosa, (Taiwan)...
What Happened on the Ghost Plane?
Like something out of a horror novel, the real-life passengers of Helios Airways Flight 522 never made it from Cyprus to Prague in August...
Use Historical Figures for Inspiration
This week's Write the Book prompt is inspired by Nancy Means Wright, who passed away recently. In honor of Wright, draft a story featuring...
How a Polka Helped Win WWII
War or history buffs know the stories of plucky Finland fighting off the much larger Soviet armies on several occasions, but did you know...
