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Writing prompts
Drafts, edits, rewrites. For when the words exist but refuse to line up.
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- creative Critique Your Screenplay Dialogue for Authenticity
Hear whether your screenplay dialogue sounds like people or like a script.
- creative Turn Your Manuscript into a Query Letter Synopsis
Compress your plot, characters and stakes into the paragraph agents actually read.
- creative Turn a Short Story into a Bedtime Story for Children
Turn a grown-up short story into something you can actually read at bedtime.
- creative Get a Beginner Critique of Your First Picture Book Manuscript
Find out if your picture book text leaves room for the pictures to do their job.
- creative Compare Your Short Story Against Two Literary Magazines' Guidelines
Find out which literary magazine your short story is actually a fit for before you submit.
- creative Compare Three Points of View for Your Novel in Progress
Work out which point of view actually serves your story's central tension.
- creative Reframe a Personal Essay's Negative Arc into an Empowering One
Find the moment of agency in your own story and let the essay end there instead.
- creative Get a Beginner-Friendly Critique of Your Poem's Opening
Find out what your poem's first stanza is doing right, and what to fix.
- creative Plan a Serialised Web Fiction Story Arc and Posting Schedule
Turn one big story idea into arcs, episodes and a schedule readers will actually follow.
- creative Explain Song Structure to a Complete Beginner Songwriter
Understand what a verse, chorus and bridge are actually for before writing your first song.
- learn Critique An Academic Essay Draft Section By Section
A supervisor style critique of your essay draft before you submit it.
- creative Reframe Your Novel's Pitch After a Run of Agent Rejections
Work out why the pitch keeps bouncing back and rebuild it around a stronger angle.
- creative Plan a 12-Week Poetry Chapbook Writing Schedule
Get from scattered poems to a submission-ready chapbook in twelve weeks.
- creative Summarise a Sprawling First Draft Into a One-Page Story Spine
See the actual shape of your draft under all the scenes you added.
- creative Summarise Your Own Draft's Plot So Far in One Paragraph
See what your plot actually is, not what you meant it to be.
- creative Summarise a Novel Draft's Plot Threads to Check They All Pay Off
Track every plot thread in your draft and find the ones you quietly dropped.
- creative Decide Which of Two Drafts to Take Forward
Stop rewriting both drafts and just pick the one worth finishing.
- creative Translate a Character Concept Into a Believable Voice on the Page
Turn a character concept into dialogue that actually sounds like them.
- creative Reframe a Rejected Pitch as a Structural Problem, Not a Talent Problem
Work out if that rejection was about your idea or just this one buyer.
- work Translate Corporate Jargon From an Email Into Plain English
Strip the corporate jargon out of an email and see what it is actually asking for.
- creative Translate a Rough Voice Note Idea Into a Structured Short Piece
Turn a rambling voice note into an actual piece without losing your voice.
- creative Translate a Prose Scene Into a Screenplay Format That Actually Plays
Turn a prose scene's interior monologue into something a camera can show.
- creative Critique a Poetry Collection's Sequencing for Emotional Arc
Get a poetry collection's running order critiqued for where the emotional arc goes flat.
- creative Explain Why a Plot Twist Works or Fails on a Craft Level
Work out whether your twist is earned or just a surprise with no weight.