Archive for March, 2005

Seeds for Stories this morning with this weeks batch of idea seeds.

Friday, March 4th, 2005

Start your page with any of the following and see where your muse takes it.

1. He was a legend around these parts. Of course there were still some old timers who knew him when he was knee high to a gnat, but mostly folks ………

2. Emma had dreamed of being a ballerina her entire life. At least it seemed that way. Hour after hour she’d ………

3. Tamsin looked at the photo in her wallet. Daydreaming. Hoping. Just surviving through those few more hours until once more she held ………

A fear for most of us women visits your protagonist this morning in the Thursday exercise for fiction writers.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Your protagonist has lost her purse. Amidst all the shopping, she’s managed to misplace the one bag she ought to have kept track of. Keys, wallet, ID, driving license - all gone. Write the scene after she discovers her purse missing.

Following on from Monday’s exercise…..

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Paint a picture with words - Show the view you would like to see looking out of your window. The world is going to move for you! Paint it anyway you’d like it to be. In a perfect life show the view you’d love.

A weave-a-word challege this morning - it being Tuesday and all!

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

Use all of the following words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction. The words can be used in any order.

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