#creative writing exercise

[nandawrites]

The writer

I hear the voices.

They tell me what to write.

It starts as a whisper, then comes a crescendo.

Myriads of voices pleading, begging.

They want to see the light.

It's lonely and scary to be forgotten, to never have lived at all.

It's hard to follow one, it hurts to leave the others behind.

(For now)

They shout. They want to come out. They want to be free.

I hear the voices.

I'll tell their stories.

Bleed them out of my chest myself.

Until they are silent and I

Am hoarse.

[lovemedearly]

what if they're burning the world down because they know there isn't anything after it? what if they know this is the end of all things yet we are the ones foolishly hopeful for something better than this?

[lovemedearly]

One of my favorite parts of the job is letting the angry wives, siblings, best friends, or what-have-you kill the patient.

Ah, nothing is funnier than watching the uncertainty morph into pure joy as they realize that they are allowed to participate in the health of their loved one in the most unorthodox way possible.

I used to do it myself, you know. Taking a knife or any kind of object that could be used as a fatal weapon from a startled onlooker and doing the deed quickly but efficiently (I do value efficiency above all).

After years of it though, the novelty wore off and that got boring fast.

Now, I find its much more enriching for everyone involved in my profession to allow others to experience their first taste of murder.

Oh, and sure I've been responsible for a few wannabe murderers turning into serial killers, but I just consider that a hazard of the job just like anything else.

I mean, what are they gonna do, sue me for malpractice?

What I find really fun though, is watching the shock and horror on the nosy onlookers faces when I have to do the job myself. They never expect that when I ask for a knife or a bludgeoning object that I'm about to put the poor sod dying on the street out of their misery before resuscitating them and sending them off good as new.

Ethical necromancy really is my favorite line of work and I wouldn't trade it for any other.

You are a necromancer doctor. If someone is ill, you must wait for them to die before they can be healed, causing quite the ruckus whenever you ask a bystander for a weapon to do the job yourself.

[itsthesunman]

You can catch a thread of yourself in new productions. You resent the whole process, but you can see where they snatched up little parts of you. This spell of paranoia, the Latino first impression, lame jokes because fuck you. You edit yourself farther and farther down. You used to work so hard, pour so much of yourself into the world. Now you're getting good at half-assed bullshit. You're getting good at sucking.

The MC is you - girl you, boy you. Maybe the director is extra creative, and the MC really doesn't look or act like you. But several episodes in, it's undeniably you. You are the reliable rizz chugging along in the background.

And then you find this old long-running show that was made years ago back when you cared, and they are literally you. It is you. He's more you than you are you right now. I remember that body. I grew up in that body. That's my body.

I was a teenage girl thinking I actually do like being a man in that body. Yeah, I actually like this a lot more.

Oh man, and the hair. All the embarrassing ways it fell around my face. He has that too! That was a lifetime ago! That hair.

This is the way the world used to look. Oh yeah. How it used to feel.

My ex vaguely looks like the other one. Perfect sculpted pout. Same hairstyle. Unreal.

It all kind of bled through.

Actors can get really creepy if you let them. If they can embody someone you care about. It's why I switched to cartoons. An animator doesn't have as much claim over a drawing as an actor does over his body. I've learned to stay away from actors. Musicians, too.

But this - someone's walking around out there in my body. It's more my body than his. He's alive. I could meet him. Shake hands with my body.

I suffered in that body. Had my first lascivious gawky stabs at love in that body. Was bored out of my skull in that body. Moved around the world and felt alright.

Asshole. Give it back.

[uselessdancedata]

Don’t forgot to send some goofy share sunday stuff!

LET'S GOO

[cj-writes-things]

The Color of Sorrow

(You guessed it- another creative writing exercise! This time we were asked to sort of combine the last three things we worked on and basically write found poetry about painting our dream home with pain paint. If you couldn't tell, I really enjoyed class today)

In this place of safety, of gathering,

of comfort and love, I have space to store

treasures, to keep dreams and to share secrets.

But the walls are bare and need painting, so

I pry off the lids from buckets of hurt,

lift my brush and get to work. It goes on

easy enough but comes off just the same-

temporary- and yet, the walls are stained.

I make sure to coat the door just so that

any visitors know what to expect.

When I grow tired of the task at hand,

I rinse my brushes, put away the cans.

I take a deep breath, all my tears now spent,

and try to wash the paint marring my skin.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Botanical Names Part III

Names you can choose for your characters. Taken from the little signs in a botanical garden. So they are names of plants.

Cassine

Orlaya

Bumelia

Maranta

Artemisia

Dionaea

Xyris

Heliamphora

Drosera

Patrinia

Khaya

Dalea

Callisia

Ruellia

Justicia

Dracaena

Pellionia

Tectaria

Monodora

Ardisia

Myrsine

Davallia

Gloriosa

Uniola

Ageratina

Cenia

Aralia

Felicia

Diascia

Nassella

More names!

[docescene]

List of Types of Kisses

This list is divided by category, kiss type, emotion conveyed, and description. You can do whatever you want with this information.

More prompts!

Location

[BELLY KISS] Love, care: a gesture of affection and protection;

[CHEEK KISS] Respect, affection: gesture of greeting, friendship, or affection;

[CHIN KISS] Passion, desire: an intimate and sensual gesture.

[EAR KISS] Desire, intimacy: a sensual and provocative gesture;

[EYELID KISS] Love, affection: a delicate and romantic gesture;

[FOOT KISS] Adoration, devotion: a gesture of submission or adoration.

[FOREHEAD KISS] Love, care, comfort: a gesture of affection, protection, and tenderness;

[HAIR KISS] Affection, tenderness: a gesture of affection and care.

[HAND KISS] Admiration, reverence: a gesture of respect and admiration;

[KNEE KISS] Passion, desire: an intimate and sensual gesture;

[MOUTH KISS] Passion, love, desire: the most common, can vary in intensity and technique;

[NECK KISS] Desire, passion: a sensual and provocative gesture;

[NOSE KISS] Affection, complicity: a gesture of affection and intimacy;

[SHOULDER KISS] Passion, desire: an intimate and sensual gesture;

Intensity

[CHASTEN KISS] Friendship, affection: a light touch on the lips, expressing affection and friendship;

[OVERWHELMING KISS] Passion, desire: a strong and urgent kiss, expressing intense passion;

[PASSIONATE KISS] Passion, love: an intense and desire-filled kiss, with tongue and light bites;

[SHY KISS] Insecurity, desire: a hesitant and delicate kiss, expressing insecurity and desire.

Type

[CINEMATIC KISS] Romance, idealization: a long and passionate kiss, idealized in movies;

[BUTTERFLY KISS] Romanticism, delicacy: kissing with eyelashes, expressing delicacy;

[ESKIMO KISS] Affection, friendship: rubbing noses, a gesture of affection in cold cultures;

[FISH KISS] Sensuality: kissing with lips slightly open;

[FRENCH KISS] Passion, desire: exchange of saliva and tongue movements;

[INVERTED KISS] Passion, adventure: kissing with bodies inverted, like in Spider-Man;

[LIZARD KISS] Sensuality, playfulness: licking the other person's lips;

[PECK] Friendship, affection: a quick and light touch of the lips;

[VAMPIRE KISS] Sensuality, mystery: kissing the neck with a slight suck.

Context

[APOLOGY KISS] Regret, forgiveness: expressing regret and seeking reconciliation;

[COMFORT KISS] Compassion, comfort: expressing compassion and comfort;

[FAREWELL KISS] Longing, hope: expressing longing and hope for reunion;

[THANK-YOU KISS] Gratitude, recognition: expressing gratitude;

[WELCOME KISS] Joy, happiness: expressing happiness at seeing someone.

[nandawrites]

Upon close inspection, realised this could be a nice fit for @flashfictionfridayofficial's prompt from last week, so this is what it is now!

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"You know, there's a shooting star."

"Where?"

"Right here, on the corner of your eyes. How did it get there?"

"It started growing there the first time I laid eyes on you."

"Really?"

"Uhum."

"And what will you do with it?"

"The same thing everyone does with falling stars. Make a wish."

"And what will you wish for?"

"That it doesn't hurt too much when you leave me."

"And why would I leave you?"

"I don't know, but the star will only fall when tears come, and I will only cry if you leave me."

"We don't cry only from sadness. What if they are happy tears?"

"Don't be silly. Everyone knows that's not how stars in your eyes work. You can only make a wish when they go out."

"That's true..."

"Yeah..."

"...Maybe we'll be the first ones."

"...Maybe."

"Now, now, stop crying, or your star will fall before its time."

"I wish it didn't have to fall at all."

"Yeah, me too."

"But it will."

"No, it won't. I'll do my best so it won't."

She looked up into her eyes, and knew.

"Now, don't be silly."

[lovemedearly]

i miss them. they're not dead, but i miss them with the intensity and longing of someone in mourning.

[choshashio]

12 Writing Exercises to help develop your character and their voice.

Editors note - There's a lot of boring writers drivel. So, to spare you from the headache if you're not interested, your characters individual voices and personalities are important for engaging stories and interesting plots. You can skip down to the end for the exercises.

Think about the people you know, the people you love. What's one thing they have in common, besides the obvious? They're all uniquely different. Everyone in the world is different in some way, even in media. Books and movies all have unique sounding characters that are different from each other. In Harry Potter, for example, All of the characters have their own voice, even the Weasley twins are different in their own ways.

Complex and unique characters that sound different, interact and speak differently, make for engaging books and dynamics.

I don't know anybody who would want to read a 50,000 word novel about two boring characters, who're exactly alike, and talk in the same monotonous tone. You can have a character who is "boring." who speaks monotonously and still have an interesting novel that people would read.

Having different characters who come together to create funny, interesting, or weird dynamics makes for a readable piece. Take your monotonous character, by themselves, they're kind of boring. They're not engaging to follow. But, introducing different characters to come and interact with your "boring" character, creates funny and memorable dynamics.

Think the anime Saiki K, or Veronica Sawyer from Heathers. If you took only those two characters, and stripped away all of the background characters, they wouldn't make for very interesting stories. Saiki would be happy, living his days in peace and quiet. Veronica would just be a normal edgy high school girl. But if you bring the side characters back, you bring the story and their conflicts back. Saiki goes back to being annoyed by his weird and goofy friends, wishing for peace and quiet. Veronica goes back to being tormented by JD and the group dynamic in the Heathers clique.

These stories utilize background characters to create conflict in their main characters' lives, and makes fun and interesting stories and dynamics with them.

Without further ado, here are 12 exercises to help you develop your characters, and get you thinking.

Ask your character what they want, and have them monologue about it.

Think about who, in your life, does your character remind you of.

Ask yourself, What does my character want, and what does my character need? How do they conflict with each other, and how does this affect my story?

A good exercise to help you write characters interacting, and practice dialogue is to do the ABCD exercise. 

The ABCD exercise is writing a full page, or 500 words, of dialogue between two characters, character a and character b, talking about what they think character c thinks of character d. Then, write another page depicting how character c actually interacts with character d.

Write journal entries from the pov of your character.

Think about your character's habits, nervous tics, or tells, and write out a page where they do those things.

Think about something your character holds dear to them, and give the item a backstory.

Think about how your character interacts with other characters, and write a page for each interaction. 

Think about a belief or opinion your character has, and write a page of dialogue, where your character is explaining their belief, and why they believe in it, to another character.

Write a page about your character reminiscing, or talking, about a cherished memory from their past, or childhood.

Write a page of dialogue about character a telling character c about character b, whom c has never met before, what kind of things do they say? What do they think of b? Then write another page from character c’s point of view, what are they thinking? How do their thoughts of b change? What do they think of character a? How do they imagine character a and b’s relationship?

Write a page about a character being forced into a situation with their greatest fear. Then, if you want to go a step further, write a page of the same thing, but introduce another character that the first holds dear to them, or wants to protect.

[inkskinned]

i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.

[angstober]

Welcome to another year of Angstober! We're delighted to unveil the prompts for this year of angsty, spooky fun.

What is Angstober?

Angstober is a yearly October challenge with 31 angst-themed prompts to inspire you to create. The challenge is open to all sorts of creative work - writing, art, edits, whatever you want - in whatever medium you want. Original work or fanworks? Whatever you feel inspired for!

How do I take part?

Tag your works with #angstober2024 and the day of the prompt (e.g., #day 01) to share on tumblr. Feel free to @ us directly in the post as well! To share your work on AO3, add it to the Angstober 2024 collection.

You can post your works whenever - early or late - and use as many or as few prompts as you feel inspired for! We'll do our best to reblog as many works to the @angstober blog as we can.

Is there a banner to post my work with?

Absolutely!

Anything else?

Nope. Happy Angsting!

2024 Prompt List

Again

2. Countdown

3. Self-Destruction

4. Blood

5. Do Better

6. Medication

7. “You Still Don’t Get It.”

8. Growing Pains

9. Promise

10. Humiliation

11. Wake Up

12. Rotten Touch

13. Shaking

14. Only Around You

15. False Hope

16. No One Else To Turn To

17. “Shhh…”

18. Falling Stars

19. Tear-Stained Cheek

20. Spare Me

21. Abandoned

22. Crocodile Tears

23. Safe/Unsafe

24. Dark Sunrise

25. You’re No Better

26. Persuasion

27. Curled Up

28. Perfect

29. Get Out

30. Nothing Else To Tell You

31. It Ends Here

[dionysiaproductions]

Ides of March Writing Challenges:

🗡️ Stab it: Write 23 words (or 23 sentences if you're playing on hard)

🗡️Settle a debt: Finish an old unfinished work

🗡️Become a dictator: Outline a version of your narrative world where your protagonist has complete control. What would they want the world to look like?

🗡️Kill Caesar: Outline a version of your story where the main character dies. What would all the supporting characters do?

[imdoingwhateverisnext]

Someone Said Something Stupid

These words are stupid

So am I

Let me use them to express my crudeness

My lack of etiquette, IQ and wisdom

Let me share my dumb ideas

My stupid verbalization and utterances

Allow me to show the world

Just how incredibly ignorant I am

Don't have pity on me

I am the worst

I am beneath you

Look away from me

Shut me up

Someone should

Know this, if spoken rarely...

Even silly words can seem profound

Shut me up

So I can display a wise veneer

The louder the voices scream to shut me up

The more credible my stupid words become

Now I am heard

Thanks to you

Today, let my own words construct the noose

The silencer, the tool

My earned weapon of self destruction

By this and through my own ignorance and "fuckery"

I can one day be hung

Then you will have your day

Retribution and glee as you hide

Your thinly disguised smile

As you think about that precious

"I told you so" moment

You were sure I was too confident.

You tried to warn me.

It must be great being right all of the time.

Appearing to hold such wisdom and depth

Always doing the right thing

Never failing

Never struggling

I used to want to be just like you

Standing quietly wearing a facade

One of understanding and wisdom

But do you know?

Do you see?

Can you comprehend?

Do you understand at all?

The truth we both know is...

You are better at hiding your struggles

You have others devoted to making mistakes disappear

That is a very fortunate circumstance you are in

Do not take it for granted

One day, you could find yourself alone,

Unprotected by your "peers"

You stepped outside of their comfort zones

Now they have left you to your own words and devices

Before long, you notice their absence

When you do see "your people" again

The awkward quick diversion of their eyes is easily noticeable

You might wonder what you did

You could be the next target of the crowd

You could be hearing the sounds of screams and protests

Over something shitty or stupid you may have said

The most maddening of all could be

That you may never learn what it is you did wrong

You may have done nothing wrong at all.

Maybe it was just a test.

Shut me up.

It is probably for the best right?

Who knew a larynx could be such a dangerous device?

[me-writes-prompts]

:-"I've found my other half" Two introverts in love with each other prompts-:

(I looooooove this trope, so thank you anon for this request! Tag me if you write these, pleaseeee!!!!)

By @me-writes-promtps

Going to the same bookstore, and they notice the other one is checking out the same book as them

^^"I love that book. It's my 7th re-read." "No way. I'm also doing a re-read :)"

The classic bumping into each other in a coffee shop, except they're both a little awkward and don't know what to say

"It's crowded in here, isn't it?" "Yeah. I hate having to take the subway every day." "Really? me too!"

"I hope you don't mind the silence." "It's alright when it's with the right person."

Exchanging shy smiles across the room <3333

Noticing little details about them

^^"How do you know this is my favorite food?" "You're always eating it." "Well, not always!" "Oh yes, always."

When they both love museums>>>

"This place is my favorite getaway." "Mine too. It's quiet and peaceful here."

They can communicate through their eyes alone

Sitting next to each other in an empty theater and finding out they both love the not-so-popular movie