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Writing Prompts and Tools
By Deb Gallardo
Today’s post is a kind of a laundry list of online resources of writing prompts and other writing tools.
The first is from writingfix.com, a site that began with 50 prompts several years ago, and now boasts 504. The page is interactive. You click on a button to generate a random prompt. Click here for their daily prompt generator page. You can also order a print version to have mailed to you for a penny per prompt. You can’t get more economical than that. 504 Writing Prompts
Writing.com has its members submit writing prompts. To access them, go to their prompts page here.
In the fiction writing section of about.com, you’ll find a series of 6 photos to use as writing prompts. Examine each photograph with a detailed eye. Don’t go just with first impressions. Pick up on the minutia as you scan each one for that telling little detail that could spark your writer’s imagination. To visit the photo prompts, go here.
At the inimitable Writer’s Digest, you can access a year’s worth of writing prompts. In addition, you can post a 500-word-or-less response to the prompt, making this the only interactive story prompt site I know about. For WD’s writing prompts, go here.
The Seventh Sanctum has a number of story idea generators. Some are whimsical, others are provocative. Try out their story idea generators here.
For a list of several writing sites, visit http://www.geocities.com/melydia/prompts.html
Finally, from dumblittleman.com (you’ve got to love the blog name…) go to 50 Tools That Can Improve Your Writing.
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