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...
Prompt: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week, the Write the Book podcast suggests two prompts, one each from guests Kurt and Ellie Johnson.
Write a paragraph the beginning and...
Your Life as a Movie
This week’s Write the Book prompt is suggested by Michelle Huneven’s book, Search.
Imagine your life as a movie that you've stepped out of. What's the title?...
Prompt: Give Your Character a Surprise
This week's Write the Book prompt was inspired by Robert Boswell's book on craft, The Half-Known World, in which he suggests writers find the "half-known...
Prompt: Random Objects
This week's prompt from the Write the Book podcast is to write a story, scene, poem, or essay that incorporates at least three of...
Find the Red Herring
During an interview with the Write the Book podcast, Jonah Lehrer suggests you read a detective story and look for the false clues planted...
Prompt, Spark, Idea, Inspiration
During his interview with the Write the Book podcast, Donald Antrim suggests a writing exercise based on an excerpt from his book, One Friday...
Writing Exercise: Change Your Audience
During her interview with the Write the Book podcast, director and playwright Lisa Peterson offers an interesting writing exercise. Peterson suggests that you take...
Image Prompt: Tacoma 1910
Photos are a great reference and writing inspiration. In this post, you can find some photos of historical Tacoma, Washington, from the early 1910s....
Writing Prompt: Describing Music
During her interview with the Write the Book podcast, writer Melissa Perley suggests a musical writing prompt: listen to a piece of music and...
