Struggling to write your character through an emotional experience? Follow this series of writing exercises and prompts to open your character up to emotional experiences.
Creative Writing Practice: dig deeper into your character
Dig deeper into your character by following these writing prompts. To create a well-rounded character, you must include a range of traits, positive and negative. Choosing their zodiac sign can be a great tool for this, along with writing them through a stressful situation.
Creative Writing Practice: bringing your character to life
Let’s continue creative writing by putting your newfound character into situations and see how they respond. Follow these quick exercises and prompts to get the most out of your character writing.
Creative Writing Practice: creating a character
If you’re like me, you love the idea of writing stories. Having your words be read by others. Publishing your work. If you’re like me, you’ve figured out how difficult that can be, especially if you’re creating characters and a story line from scratch. Today can be the very start of this journey – the seed that will grow into something beyond you. Let’s start with a character.
Life Writing Practice: intrinsic and extrinsic character traits
Ahhhh, another Wednesday writing session. This is a time where you shut off the white noise in your life, reflect, and hopefully end up with writing you’re proud of. Since we are focusing on life writing still, we’re now honing in on intrinsic and extrinsic qualities of character building. The twist is, you’ll be writing about someone you intimately know.
Life Writing Practice: memory and sensory details
We’re officially in another week of life writing practice, this time focusing in on including those key sensory detail that make your writing come alive.
Life Writing Practice: exercises and prompts to energize you
Need ideas to unblock your creativity? Interested in writing but you don’t know where to get started? You can follow this life writing playbook with a friend, a group, or by yourself.
turning 26: a quick list of lessons learned
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fear of forgetting
I’ll never forget a statement made by Damien Echols while leaving prison after surviving death row, wrongly convicted, for 18…
the train ride home
You open your eyes. Out the window of the train you see gleaming cities in the sunlight, sunflower fields stretching…
how I saw the best of edinburgh for free (and you can too)
When people think about Edinburgh, they think about the historic architecture, the cobblestone roads, and the haunted legends. Personally, I…
a strange holiday tradition
It was my favorite night of the year. As my mother had me turn off the lights, she lit every…
should you return to a place you once loved? // part 2
This question proved to be harder to answer than a simple yes or no, as most questions are. I suppose…
should you return to a place you once loved? // part I
To me, memories exist as a warm, blurry, slow-motion filmstrip. They live and breathe in the past, but I find…
success: target practice
J and I sat in our small car while driving back to base, over hills and valleys, an expanse of…
moccasins: the truth about marriage
As a fourth grade teacher last year, we read the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech in my classroom.…
a glimpse into life on a military base
With this in mind, I realize that the majority of the population doesn’t know what it’s like to live on…
List of Emotions for Creative Writing
Choose emotions on this list to have your character experience. Try writing your character through multiple emotions, either due to an external circumstance or an internal realization.
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List of Stressful and Traumatizing Situations for Creative Writing
Choose a situation on this list to have your character live through. Writing your character through traumatizing and stressful situations can show you who they truly are.
List of Locations for Creative Writing
Pick a location on this list and start writing.
List of Life Writing Prompts
Feeling blocked? Pick one of the following prompts at random and get those creative juices flowing again. If you have suggestions for more, or want to share your writing, do so below!
