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Writing prompts

Drafts, edits, rewrites. For when the words exist but refuse to line up.

• creative Reframe I Am Not Creative Into a Starting Brief You Can Act On

  Turn I am not creative into something you can actually start today.

• creative Decide Whether to Self-Publish or Query Literary Agents for Your Novel

  Work out which publishing route actually fits your book and your time.

• creative Reframe Writer's Block as a Signal Rather Than a Wall

  Work out what your writer's block is actually trying to tell you.

• creative Critique a Screenplay Logline Against What Actually Sells

  Find out if your logline would survive an executive's first read.

• creative Plan a 30-Day Flash Fiction Writing Challenge

  Get a daily prompt list that actually builds a flash fiction habit.

• life Critique a Best Man Speech Draft for Length and Landmines

  Find the line in your best man speech that will make the room wince.

• creative Critique Your Villain's Motivation Before You Write the Confrontation Scene

  Find out if your villain's reasons hold up before the big scene.

• creative Decide Whether to Cut a Subplot During a Structural Edit

  Settle whether that subplot is earning its place in the manuscript.

• creative Decide Which Point of View Suits Your Novel-in-Progress

  Settle which point of view your story actually needs.

• creative Generate a Villain Backstory From a Single Contradiction

  Build a villain backstory around one contradiction instead of a checklist.

• creative Generate Ten Plot Twist Options for Your Mystery Novel

  Get ten fair twist options before you commit to the obvious one.

• creative Explain the Three-Act Structure to a First-Time Screenwriter

  Learn the three-act structure using the story you actually want to write.

• creative Explain Why a Paragraph of Your Fiction Draft Is Not Working

  Get a precise diagnosis of a paragraph that reads wrong, and a fix.

• creative Plan a Poetry Chapbook Submission Strategy

  Build a submission plan for your chapbook instead of sending it nowhere.

• creative Explain Show Don't Tell to a Beginner Fiction Writer

  Get a working definition of show don't tell, not just the slogan.

• creative Explain the Unreliable Narrator Technique Using Examples From Your Draft

  Understand unreliable narration well enough to control it on purpose.

• creative Translate Technical Jargon into a Script a General Audience Follows

  Turn a specialist paper into a video script without losing the parts that matter.

• creative Decide Which Genre Your Story Idea Actually Belongs In

  Work out what genre the story actually wants, not the one you defaulted to.

• creative Compare Two Character Voices for Consistency Across a Manuscript

  Check whether a character still sounds like themselves a hundred pages later.

• creative Reframe Writer's Block as a Structural Problem You Can Fix

  Stop blaming your talent and find the actual structural gap stalling the draft.

• creative Compare Two Opening Lines to See Which One Hooks Harder

  Pit two first lines against each other and see which one earns the second.

• creative Critique a Screenplay's First Ten Pages Against Industry Convention

  See whether your script survives the first ten pages the way readers actually read them.

• creative Summarise a Full Manuscript into a One-Page Synopsis

  Compress the whole novel into the one page agents expect, ending included.

• creative Compare a Haiku and a Free Verse Take on the Same Image

  Work out whether your image wants a haiku's discipline or free verse's room.

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