Hello writers! Today we are offering an opportunity to get creative with a writing prompt that will hopefully spark your masterpiece. Here we go: 1) Describe a “first” (first apartment, first kiss, first time driving a car, first lie, first big success, first roller coaster ride, first day at school,
We’ve interrupted your regularly scheduled programming for the last few weeks to bring you some fun features and information about the 2011 Agents Conference. (And, yes, you can still register right here.) But now, we’re back with all new writing prompts! Get your pen! Get your paper! (Okay, do you
This week’s writing prompt is actually a revision prompt. For our Third Thursday of April, we were lucky to have authors Margo Rabb, Varian Johnson, Carol Dawson, and Katherine Durham Oldmixon talking revision, and it has been inspiring us at the WLT ever since! This is a prompt that helps
Sometimes a little visual stimulus can get us started writing when we’re feeling blank. For today’s writing prompt, you’ll need a prop. Dig up an old photograph (preferably one where you don’t know the people too well!) Write a short story based on the setting and “characters” in the photograph.
It’s a busy morning at the Writers’ League as we get ready for the YA A to Z Conference on April 15 and 16. So today we’re bringing you a prompt for one of those times when you only have a moment or to snatch between Very Important Things. Today’s
April is National Poetry Writing Month! (Also known as NaPoWriMo). So we here at the WLT thought it was time to put some poetry out into the world. Well. Poetry writing prompts, at least! And don’t worry about whether or not you consider yourself a poet. Just have fun and
While we type away, trying to follow the footsteps of a protagonist, it can be the easiest thing in the world to forget that the rest of our characters keep on moving, talking, choosing… living! Our secondary characters have lives beyond the page, and taking just a few minutes to
At our monthly Q & A last night, Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife, talked about how she uses music to get into the world of her story, and stay there even when she isn’t writing. Miss Obreht builds playlists that have an association with a certain scene
When we write, it’s important to give ourselves plenty of time and space to think. But what about our characters? Giving characters the opportunity to express themselves can teach us a lot about the story we need to tell. And by directing that expression toward another character, it can teach
Personal space means one thing when you’re standing on a crowded bus. But it means something else altogether when we sit down to write. Writers all use the white space on the page differently to affect pacing, tension, the emotional expression of the character, and the emotional experience of the
