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Friday 25 October 2024: This n that

I started to write this with a view to publishing it yesterday, but it got longer and longer and longer and I still had to write yesterday’s Writing Prompts. So…

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Thursday 26 October 2024: 33 Writing Prompts For April Stories

Topical & evergreen ideas editors want to see Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around 6 months ahead, which means in October, I’m ‘thinking’ April, ‘writing’…

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Thursday 3 October 2024: Take one idea – St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne

How to farm 50 more ideas to write about from just one Last week I wrote about 28 ideas you can write about that will be topical in March 2025….

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Friday 27 September 2024: Getting on with stuff

I skipped a regular daily post yesterday because the writing ideas post is such a long one. Next week, I’ll share the ‘take one idea’ post for March too. I’ve…

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Wednesday 25 Jan 2023: Date work + Writing prompts

The Scrivener/Save the Cat webinar wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but it was a free seminar and there was still some useful stuff in there. I just would have…

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Writing Prompts: 1 June 2022

I try to work roughly 4 months ahead because the majority of my writing markets are quick to take work from me and publish it. Many markets, however, already have…

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Writing Prompts: 30 March 2022

Wednesday Writing Prompts are back, but renamed simply Writing Prompts. This is so I don’t feel obliged to do one every week, especially when I’m snowed under doing other, paying…

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Writing Prompts: 23 March 2022

Wednesday Writing Prompts are back, but renamed simply Writing Prompts. This is so I don’t feel obliged to do one every week, especially when I’m snowed under doing other, paying…

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Take one idea…

Date work is a big part of my short fiction work, and sometimes it features in my longer works too. I’ve also been known to write the occasional feature as…

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Writing Prompts: 16 March 2022

Wednesday Writing Prompts are back, but renamed simply Writing Prompts. This is so I don’t feel obliged to do one every week, especially when I’m snowed under doing other, paying…

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Writers’ ideas: where to find them

Wednesdays will be regular weekly writing prompts again soon, but as I haven’t had chance yet to search any dates, here’s a connected post I made earlier… Ideas are all…

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Wednesday writing prompts

(Image by JohnNico from Pixabay) I’m away this week, but here’s one I prepared earlier. Short and sweet once again, but here are this week’s writing prompts. The Swallow Sidecar Company One hundred…

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Wednesday writing prompts

I missed another week, so here is another list of dates, this time for the second half of the month, for you to research and brainstorm for yourselves. Choose a…

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More date work & Scrivener 3

Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay The first job I did on Tuesday morning was yesterday’s writing prompts post. The second job I did was the first of this week’s date…

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That was the week that was

I didn’t have a great start to the week due to a rough night on Sunday and a long lie-in on Monday. However, I did manage to get some things…