Give yourself 15 minutes, get a random number between1 and 820 and search for that prompt (search in my tags: prompt #{number}) and then start writing.
And if you already used that prompt choose another one or write it in a completely different way.
Choose three prompts (you can use random.org) from my blog between 1 and 820 and search for it on my blog by using #prompt [no.].
Now try to think of a way to combine all of them in one story. No matter how outlandish they seem together at first, in the end this game helps you to see them in a completely different light and to get a new multi-dimensional idea for a story.
+ if you use even more prompts;
who can fit the most prompts into a drabble or a 500 word short story?
++ if you choose prompts that at first glance don’t seem to fit together at all
Choose one prompt from my blog (you can use random.org) between 1 and 820 and search for it by using #prompt [no.] on my blog.
Whatever your first inspiration is, the goal of the game is to write this one prompt in as many genres as you can think of for it. Write about 5 to 10 sentencesfor each genre and see the different directions you can take the same prompt in.
Choose a title or let your followers send you some in. Write a short drabble or a full story with that title. What is the first idea that comes to your mind?
+ if you take the same title and write completely different stories/different genres with it
2. Game:
Let your followers send you the titles and then create a short summary for what a potential story would be about.
3. Game: The Alphabet Game
Choose one title for every letter in the alphabet from these lists and fill them or let your followers pick characters for you to write a story for each title with. (Inspired by evilwriter37)
Creating characters is one of the most important things to do while writing. Characters can make or break a story. No matter how good the idea, if the characters are flat, people are not going to keep reading. Here are some posts to help you create interesting and memorable characters.
Another theme week, this time about one of my favourite things in the world and in fiction: FRIENDSHIP!
The week from May, 9th to the 15th is going to be Friendship Week, which includes 2 new posts (Friendship Dynamics, How to write friendships), 3 friendship-themed single prompts and reblogs of my posts about friends so far.
All of the new posts for this week are already up for members on my Ko-fi.
I hope you have a wonderful week and get inspired to write some really strong friendships!
- Jana
The second theme week is officially over! What was your favourite post to work with? As always, you can show off your work on @creativepromptfills for everyone to read.
Well-written relationships between characters are what makes a story beloved. And while writing romance has it’s own difficulties, it’s even more tricky to write good and believable friendships.
What role do friends play in a story?
It depends a bit on if the friendship is between MCs or if the MC is friends with side-characters. The friendship with another MC could be the focus of the story and driving point for the plot. But the friendship with a side-character could help your MC to rant about their problems, to get a second opinion, to get an honest truth, to see a situation from another perspective and to realize that they are not alone in this. They can also be helpful to show your MCs regular life outside of whatever special happens to them in the story and helps to show why your MC is the way they are.
Types of friends
the best friend
the friend group
the situational friend
the old friend
The best friend - they share almost anything with each other, their opinions matter, able to tell them off if they are wrong, closest thing to a sibling, people know them as a duo
The friend group - in on all the tea, give honest opinions, help out where they can, can have deep, but also very casual scenes
The situational friend - friends because of circumstances (having classes together, being on the same sports team, having mutual friends), are friends when they see each other, don’t really seek each other out outside of that situation, knowing about specific parts of each other’s life, but not other parts and wouldn’t share deep conversations
The old friend - think about childhood friend vs. college friend - the friends have met in completely different parts of each other’s lives, know each other in different ways and probably have a different understanding of each other, the old friend would probably not know everything about their life right now, but they still fall back into old patterns with each other (good and bad)
Give them something in common & some differences
Humans like to flock together with people with similar interests, personalities and lives. So give your fictional friends things they have in common. Sharing the same goal, liking the same things, having compatible personalities, having the same outlook on life,…
But friends are not a carbon copy of each other. Give them some differences that don’t hurt their friendship in the long run, but rather some that can the characters can build off of these differences. Taking advice from a friend who has more experience with something, a friend who sees things a bit different, or becoming more confident because of their friend’s confidence.
More tips
Make sure to give the friends their own life. They are not just there to bounce ideas off with your MC. They should have their own goals and personalities. Make sure they could be their own character without the MC.
To have a friendship that the reader likes and roots for, you have to make sure that the reader can see why they are friends. The quite, nerdy kid is not going to be best friends with the loud, edgy, popular kid without a believable reason. Why would they hang out if they have nothing in common? Having been friends since kindergarten is not enough of a reason to still be best friends in high school if they have nothing to talk about and don’t like to do the same things and if their personalities just don’t match at all.
Another theme week, this time about one of my favourite things in the world and in fiction: FRIENDSHIP!
The week from May, 9th to the 15th is going to be Friendship Week, which includes 2 new posts (Friendship Dynamics, How to write friendships), 3 friendship-themed single prompts and reblogs of my posts about friends so far.
All of the new posts for this week are already up for members on my Ko-fi.
I hope you have a wonderful week and get inspired to write some really strong friendships!
- Jana
Halfway through Friendship Week! If you have written something for any of these prompts (or just any prompts) or if you’re thinking about doing it, you can always tag @creativepromptfills, so that I can reblog them and show them to my followers, so that they can see what you came up with and give you lots of love
Being friends means that you like the other one and that you have things in common. But true friends also have differences. So here are some fun friendship dynamics for you.
the competitive & the relaxed one
the touchy-feely & the reserved
the loud & the coy
the goofy & the serious
the extrovert & the introvert
the social butterfly & the socially awkward one
the jokester & the one never getting the joke
the spontaneous & the planner
the book smart & the street smart
the friendly & the snarky
the chaotic & the organized
the optimist & the pessimist & the realist
the one with a loose relationship with rules & the one who does everything by the book
You’re walking to college, across the sea lane and worrying about exams. The sea is calm, but high, and you notice it’s almost on the same level as the path. Just as a new worry starts to form - it becomes real. A foot of water surges over the path, deceivingly slow, but that’s all it takes to knock you off your feet and into the ocean.
‘Please. No. Please. No. No. No. Please’ Your thoughts are incoherent, the desperate pleading of an animal literally out of their depth. You know you’re a weak swimmer, the path is so tantalisingly close but you barely move in the water. Waves start dragging you away. But maybe if you go at it at an angle, maybe if you suppress your panic and use all your strength, maybe you could make it. Probably even.
The ocean shrugs. You’re above the path, looking down at it. On the hump of a huge wave. Panic turns to terror as you realise - you are going to die. Escape is no longer an option, all you can do is try to ride it out. You try to keep atop the wave, better than in its path, where you would be dragged under and tumbled about and drown.
And as you paddle for your life you have a strange moment of clarity - the diagrams in your physics homework suddenly take form. Those forces in opposite directions. How little a force you must be producing. Trapped in a snapshot of an easily solvable but unwinnable physics equation. You feel a moments pity for the people in those textbook examples. For yourself.
The air is gone from your lungs, water surrounding you, the roar of it deafening you and going on forever and ever and then it stops. The water retreats like a blanket being pulled off you. You lie there stunned and slowly realise what happened, the wave had crashed into land and deposited you there. You didn’t even feel yourself hitting the ground.
Everything aches but stay here and you might get dragged back in. Despite weak screaming muscles you drag yourself up the slope. An eternity later, exhausted, you feel safe enough to turn around. The ocean is still shuddering, giant waves appearing out of nowhere. They radiate outwards, crushing and absorbing anything in their path. You watch one slam into the - cliffside!? Yes. The cliffside where you’d washed up minutes earlier. A shudder runs through you as you comprehend the apathetic fury of nature.
