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Writing prompts
Drafts, edits, rewrites. For when the words exist but refuse to line up.
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- creative Plan a Three-Month Creative Project With Weekly Milestones
Break a big creative project into a 3-month weekly plan.
- creative Explain the Difference Between Genre and Literary Fiction
Explains the genre vs literary fiction line without ranking them.
- creative Reframe Starting a Creative Project Without a Clear Vision
Argues that starting without a clear vision is often the right method.
- creative Explain How Literary Magazines Evaluate Submissions
What happens to your story after you hit submit.
- creative Critique a First Chapter for Structural Weaknesses
A developmental editor's structural read of your opening chapter.
- creative Critique a Personal Essay Before Submission
An editor's read on your essay before you submit it.
- creative Explain How to Develop a Recognisable Creative Style
Explains how a recognisable style is built, not applied.
- creative Explain How a Narrative Arc Works in Fiction
Understand why some stories satisfy and others fall flat.
- creative Generate a Short Story Premise With Built-In Conflict
Get three story premises with real conflict already built in.
- creative Compare the Commercial and Literary Fiction Markets
Work out whether your novel is commercial or literary, and who reads it
- creative Reframe a Creative Project That Has Completely Stalled
Decide whether to push on, restart, or let the stalled project go
- creative Critique the First Page of Your Novel
Find out whether your opening page earns a reader's turn to page two
- creative Summarise How to Give Useful Feedback on Creative Work
How to give feedback that helps, without being vague or hurtful
- creative Compare Plotting and Pantsing as Novel Writing Approaches
Plotter or pantser: which is more likely to get you to the end
- creative Critique a Podcast Episode for Engagement and Structure
Find where listeners drop off before you release the episode
- creative Critique a Character's Arc for Internal Consistency
Check whether your protagonist's arc actually holds together
- creative Translate Creative Writing Terms for a Beginner
Explains a baffling craft term in plain English with familiar examples.
- creative Compare Third-Person Limited and Third-Person Omniscient Narration
Choose deliberately between close third and omniscient narration
- creative Decide Whether to Join a Creative Writing Group
Work out if a writing group will help you or just put you off
- creative Explain What Makes a Short Film Script Work
What a short film script is for and why it differs from prose
- creative Reframe Creative Block as Signal Rather Than Failure
Read your creative block as information, not proof you can't
- creative Critique a Blog Post for Voice and Readability
Get honest feedback on your blog post before you hit publish
- creative Decide Which Creative Writing Format to Try First
Pick a writing format that fits how you actually think
- creative Understand What Story Structure Actually Means
What story structure really means, in plain words and no jargon