Idea Seeds! Start your page with any of the following and see where your creative muse takes you:

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Your protagonist is having an evening at home alone. How do they spend the hours? What and where do they eat? Write a scene where your protagonist is having such an evening when they receive a phone call with some startling information.

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Often writers are given strict guidelines to follow by editors of magazines. This exercise has similar rules! You may write whatever genre you feel comfortable in, perhaps you may even find yourself writing a fictional news story, but you must keep true to the three compulsory elements.

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Your exercise today is to incorporate all of the following words into an article, short story, poem or whatever comes to mind. You must use all of the words (in any order) to complete the exercise, but the context in which they are used is up to you. Think about the words for a few minutes before you start to write and see what pictures come to mind - then see if you can weave them all together into a piece of writing.

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It’s reality TV time, and they’re knocking on your door. Which reality show do you think you’d be best in? Why? If you think you’d be a terrible participant in all of them, write about why you feel this.

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Idea Seeds! Start your page with any of the following and see where your creative muse takes you:

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Dialogue often catches writers out. This morning’s task is to write an imaginary conversation between your protagonist and someone who has bumped their car at a stop sign. Remember to read the dialogue aloud once you’ve wrote and then go back and change anything that sounds awkward when the words are spoken.