The following prompt is by Mary Jane Nordgren of Writers in the Grove and is a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.
This is a simple or complicated prompt. Use it as you wish.
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The following prompt is a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.
The following prompt is from Shannon of Writers in the Grove and is a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.
The answer is blue.
Write the question.
The following prompt is a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.
To honor NaNoWriMo and members and fans of Writers in the Grove, our members are submitting a prompt-a-day for the entire month of November.
The prompts cover everything and anything. They might include an image for a wordless prompt or a quote or suggestion.
You may do what you wish with these prompts. You may twist them around to meet the needs of your story, characters, or plot. You may use them as a tangent writing project to help you break out of a blocked thought or walled-off idea. The word count still goes into your official ledger.
If you would like to join us for NaNoWriMo, we’ve put together “It’s NaNoWriMo Time: How To, Tips, Techniques, and Survival Advice” to help you ensure a successful month of writing in November.
You will find all the prompts in our Prompts post category. Follow/Subscribe to the site to keep up with these throughout the month of November during NaNoWriMo. You may unsubscribe at your leisure afterward, or keep being inspired by the great weekly prompts and activities from Writers in the Grove.
If you live in the Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon, area, we invite you to join us. We meet weekly on Monday from 9-11am at the Forest Grove Senior and Community Center, and monthly at the Forest Grove Library, typically the second Saturday of the month at 10AM.
The following will be a list of the NaNoWriMo Prompts on this site for the month of November 2015, starting the morning of November 1.
Come join the fun and write, write, and write some more!
This week’s prompt talked about how we communicate? What do we use to communicate? Eyes, attention, body language, respect, support, and words.
You can communicate with a person and have it be a very intimate connection. You may also connect with someone and have it be a one way experience.
There are many ways to communicate with each other, as there is with your characters. How do they communicate with each other?
As a writer, how do you connect on a deeper level to your readers? Sometimes you write to a specific person, even if you are writing for many. Others say they write to and for themselves.
The prompt narrowed down to this:
Write a letter to yourself or someone else that speaks the truth, says what you really wish to tell them, no holds barred.
It could be a letter sent, or one that is written and never sent. It doesn’t matter.
If you’d like to experiment with character building, have your main character or any character in your story write that letter.
The following poem was inspired by the prompt called “Cavort.”
Cavort
A shoe found near the front door
The well-worn t-shirt just a few paces later
What was left of Stinky, the favorite bedtime blanket,
was tossed casually amongst the weeds
at the edge of the lane
With holey jeans and unders discarded
The six year old dances buck-naked
in an unexpected summer rain.
A simple word led Writers in the Grove to come up with a room full of diverse stories and poems.
The group had discussed the arc of a piece and how to take it from the beginning hook, to action, to resolution. It was mentioned that it is like dominoes set to fall in a pattern, each section of the piece needs to connect to the next domino in order for the pattern to fall in succession. Each thing that happens, has to happen for a reason.
The prompt was: Cavort.
See where the word takes you.
The Vernonia Library Writing Group met August 20 at 6 pm. We explored the writing practice of Imitation, that is writing about an object or experience in several different ways.
Seeing the moon as a perfect pearl, or a white balloon that had lost its string, or an owl eye without a pupil, or a saucer without a teacup all gave us ideas on different ways to describe a single thought.
The prompt for the group was a sentence of unknown origin, “I will never hide my talent, if I am silent, I am forgotten.” The group was given 15 minutes to free write.
A homework assignment was given to the group. Before the next meeting on Sept. 17, individuals will ‘eavesdrop’ on a conversation and write what they have heard. This practice is designed to focus on not only dialog, but nuances that can change a conversation. Writers are not required to copy the conversation as they heard it, but to see if they can discern and imitate the tone.
Assignments will be discussed at our next meeting scheduled for September 17, 2015, at the Vernonia Library, 7pm.
The prompt this week was:
IF you had unlimited resources, time, healthy, and energy, what would you write?
What is the tentative working title?
Do you have a character that yells to you from inside that wants to be born?
IF you know what you would write, why aren’t you doing it?
What is stopping you?
Get started.
Write the opening paragraph or chapter. Now.
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