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- August 24th, 2009
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Shuttercraft to her friends list. - August 12th, 2009
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The Argument
Two people are arguing--a man and a woman. They don't have to be a couple. Each is convinced he or she is right. You, as the writer, do not want to know who is right, but you will have exquisite sympa…
- August 5th, 2009
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Control
If you are a man, write a short scen from the POV of a woman totally dominated by a boyfriend or husband who has a long history of controlling this woman. If you are a woman, write a short scene from…
- July 28th, 2009
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Invisible Woman
Write a short scene in which a woman becomes invisible, briefly, for no explained reason. I leave it up to you what she will observe in her state of lucidity and transparency: her boyfriend's or husba…
- July 22nd, 2009
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You Oxymoron
Use a dozen of these lovely phrases (like "she was gaily grieving" or "he had many pleasing pains") to describe a large oxymoron--a person, place, or event. The thing you're looking for in a good oxym…
- July 7th, 2009
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Doubling Up
Write two paragraph-long character sketches of two people you know well. Wait a day, then write another long paragraph sketch that takes elements from the two people you know to create a third, fictio…
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Letters from Inside the Story
Have one character in a story you're working on write a letter to another character in the same story. The character writing the letter will not send it. Therefore this letter writer can say a great d…
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Sentenced to Death
Take a sentence from a writer you admire or who provokes strong feelings in your gut. Preferably, this should be a fairly long sentence with a lot of different words in it. Use any of the words and on…
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Face Recognition
Write a short scene in which the ability to recognize faces is crucial to the outcome of the scene (it doesn't have to be correct face recognition--it could be mistaken face recognition). How do you d…
- June 22nd, 2009
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- June 17th, 2009
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LitScribbler
A blog about literary fiction with a focus on the short story. Information about the literary marketplace. Thoughts on craft. The short fiction of Scott Doyle. - June 16th, 2009
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Beyond Words
Create a brief fragment of an epiphany, a moment beyond words, beyond explaining, in which a character sees the necessity of change.(from prompt #36 in The 3AM Epiphany)Read my response: "feist: I fee…
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Wilderness
Put two characters you already know from your own fiction in a wilderness of some sort. It could be a desert or a big foreign city where the characters don't speak the language. Do not explain to us w…
- June 9th, 2009
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Chaos Follows
Write a set of short scenes in which confusion or chaos follows a character, as if in his wake. The character does not cause this, knowingly or unknowingly, but disorder nearly always happens after he…
- June 4th, 2009
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Goodness
Imagine a character who is kind, whose every act is based on the notion that other people need help, and who rarely thinks of himself first. This should be a person of great empathy. The character wal…
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- May 26th, 2009
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Friendship
Write a 500 word story about friendship in response to the paragraph below from Samuel Beckett's Proust. I hope you notice what a lyrically dark view of friendship Beckett (and by extension Proust) ha…
- May 20th, 2009
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Intelligence
Create a smart character. Show us this person’s unusual intelligence. Write a fragment of fiction at the center of which is one character’s uncommon and somewhat visible intelligence. You’ll pro…
- May 12th, 2009
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Absent Commentary
"Absence of..." by ky_olsenThe "Absent" prompt was one of the most difficult for me to write about, and I'm not sure why. I'm not satisfied with how it turned out, either: I got a couple good lines in…
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Absent
Construct a character who is not present, who is offstage for the entire piece. You have many options here: people may talk about this character before meeting him, or after meeting her; you might cho…
- May 7th, 2009
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- May 6th, 2009
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- May 5th, 2009
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Evil
Write a fragment of a story about a villain who gets away with a serious and perhaps brutal crime and enjoys the fruits of his crime (or simply enjoys the fact that nothing happens after this crime).…
- May 1st, 2009
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