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17 More Plot Twists

Since THIS POST proved useful, here is 17 more plot twists that may help with your projects!

A tempting offer has a high price

A childhood treasure resurfaces

Protagonist is forced to repay someone else's debt

A friend is hiding something

Something Protagonist thought finished bursts back into life

A favourite refuge is destroyed

Someone goes too far

Something damaged cannot be repaired

A shopkeeper thinks Protagonist wronged them

An enemy favours one target in battle

A benevolent leader orders an evil act

Protagonist learns that Antagonist shares the same goal

An ally appears to defend Antagonist

A secret door is found in an unexpected location

New information makes Protagonist doubt their allies

A dying man reveals important information

Protagonist's house suddenly gets condemned as unsound

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💬260 Random Prompts/Writing Ideas and Inspiration💬

Jazz Group

Walk On By

Wine Taster

Speak Up

It's A Secret!

What Is It?

In the Wild

Just Write

All At Sea

You're a Winner

Have a Snack

Double Trouble

Ski Trip

Cake Maker

Which Way?

Line Up

Fact or Fiction?

Pay Time

Well Sorted

How Sweet

Wild Thing

Winter Warmer

It's a Puzzle

Clean Sweep

Law and Order

Night Time

Hats Off!

Royal List

Pizza Toppings

Radio Waves

Be My Valentine

Hell of a Puzzle

What to Wear?

It's a Comfort

Traffic Problems

House Hunting

Be A Pal

Take Care

Floored

Heated Moment

Ups and Downs

Talk to the Animals

Dance Class

Say Cheese!

Tree Tops

All Change

Dinner Date

What a Myth

How Rude

School Report

Manicure

Hold All

Cash Point

Going Up!

Aches and Pains

In Scotland

Sticky Subject

Let's Decorate

Job Centre

Make Room

Footie Fan

Budget Day

Crime Sheet

Check it Out

What For?

Go Green

Noisy!

Higher and Higher

Countdown

Car Parts

Smells Sweet

Points of View

Go For the Burn

Just Think!

Electrifying

River Trip

Work Place

On the Board

Something Fishy

On Track

Head Gear

Stage Fright

Well Balanced

Joust About

On the Move

Jewel Box

In Print

On Yer Feet!

Monetary Matters

Nautical Talk

Face Facts

Hair Care

Who's In Charge?

A Dog's Life

Boat Builder

Anger Management

Clowing Around

Hospital Visit

Fishing Trip

Big Talk

All Talk

Taking Steps

On the Map

Crowd Scene

Stay Sharp

Spot the Ball

Telling Tales

Street Wise

Diary Dates

At the Sales

Be a Sport

Sweet Tooth

Film Clip

Body Talk

Home Time

Nature's Way

Cats and Dogs

Head to Toe

Shopping Mall

Stepping Out

Down River

Windy Weather

Ship Shape

Make a Date

House Proud

Spice Rack

Phone a Friend

Holiday Destination

Tie the Knot

Snack Attack

Travel Guide

Food Mixer

Bottoms Up!

Fully Furnished

In the Frame

Cocktail Mix

Pottering About

Keep It Clean

Cross Bar

Little Ones

Road Runner

Star Trail

Last Resort

Take A Seat

Sum Problem

You're a Star

Jam-Packed

Count On It

Girl Talk

On the Go

Find the Forest

Start and Finish

Teething Troubles

Table Toppers

Love Lines

Headlines

It's a Puppet

All Stuck Up

Baby Talk

Movie Action

Holiday Haunt

Holiday Cruising

Bath Time

Your Local

Bird Garden

Passing the Time

Match of the Day

Car Dealer

Court Order

Mixed Bag

In a State

From Start to Finish

Flower Pick

Plain Speaking

Western Trail

Storm Warning

In the Can

Send a Message

Sounds the Same

Hair Raising

All Round

Happy Anniversary

Just the Opposite

At Your Leisure

Looking Good

Good Morning!

Singing Lessons

Footloose

Mummified

Leisure Centre

Show ID

In Tatters

Death Knell

Book Search

At Your Service

On the Telly

Full Support

Shopping Trip

Give and Take

Take It Easy!

Big Problem

Tee'd Off

In This Sea

Light Relief

Don't Make Me Laugh!

What's the Time?

Shock Waves

Good Friends

Animal Trail

Keep Quiet!

Things to Wear

Burning Question

In the Kitchen

Where Do You Live?

Writer's Cramp

Make a Move

Bridge Builder

Be Patient

Around the House

Small Talk

Rollover

In the Pink

Added Spice

Love Letters

By the Pool

Cutting Edge

I Spy

Job Interview

Keep Fit

High Speed

Going Underground

Where's the Scent?

High Spirits

Bed and Breakfast

At the Fair

Ship Ahoy!

Going Potty

In Dispute

Read All About It

Feeling Frosty

Be In to Win

Team Up

What's the Weather?

Learning Process

Seeing Red

Airline Antics

Fright Night

In or Out

Place the Name

Make a Film

Eat It

Contain It

Hot Stuff!

Fresh Fruit

Dream On

Getting Dressed

The Big Day

Bank Balances

Course Work

Wedding Vows

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Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

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I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

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Word Counting

Want to write a novel of a certain length, but find it quite daunting? Why don't we just break down the word count into easily digestible fragments?

50,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 5,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 2,500 words 30 chapters/parts = 1,666 words

60,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 6,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 3,000 words 30 chapters/parts = 2,000 words 40 chapters/parts = 1,500 words

70,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 7,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 3,500 words 30 chapters/parts = 2,333 words 40 chapters/parts = 1,750 words

80,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 8,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 4,000 words 30 chapters/parts = 2,666 words 40 chapters/parts = 2,000 words

90,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 9,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 4,500 words 30 chapters/parts = 3,000 words 40 chapters/parts = 2,250 words

10,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 10,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 5,000 words 30 chapters/parts = 3,333 words 40 chapters/parts = 2,500 words 50 chapters/parts = 2,000 words

110,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 11,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 5,500 words 30 chapters/parts = 3,666 words 40 chapters/parts = 2,750 words 50 chapters/parts = 2,200 words

120,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 12,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 6,000 words 30 chapters/parts = 4,000 words 40 chapters/parts = 3,000 words 50 chapters/parts = 2,400 words 60 chapters/parts = 2,000 words

130,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 13,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 6,500 words 30 chapters/parts = 4,333 words 40 chapters/parts = 3,250 words 50 chapters/parts = 2,600 words 60 chapters/parts = 2,166 words

140,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 14,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 7,000 words 30 chapters/parts = 4,666 words 40 chapters/parts = 3,500 words 50 chapters/parts = 2,800 words 60 chapters/parts = 2,333 words

150,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 15,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 7,500 words 30 chapters/parts = 5,000 words 40 chapters/parts = 3,750 words 50 chapters/parts = 3,000 words 60 chapters/parts = 2,500 words

200,000 words - 10 chapters/parts = 20,000 words 20 chapters/parts = 10,000 words 30 chapters/parts = 6,666 words 40 chapters/parts = 5,000 words 50 chapters/parts = 4,000 words 60 chapters/parts = 3,333 words 70 chapters/parts = 2,857 words

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🍀 21 Plot Twist Ideas 🍀

Stuck on your WIP? Unsure of how a scene should go? Feel as though your story is lacking substance? Enduring with the frustrations of writer’s block?

Why not try throwing in a plot twist?

A messenger brings bad news

Something important is stolen

Someone vanishes without a trace

An important item is damaged

Protagonist recognizes a face in the crowd

Someone seems to intentionally fail

Protagonist finds an item thought lost

A charitable act has a harmful result

A cruel act has a beneficial outcome

Someone unexpectedly returns the favour

A raging storm moves across town

A gift makes a character the target of a murderer

A fallen enemy makes one last attack

Only one character in danger can be saved

An enemy saves the life of Protagonist’s friend

A will from a long-lost relative appears

A secret rival seeks to replace Protagonist

A thief makes Protagonist their next target

An obscure law suddenly becomes important

Strangers mistake Protagonist for a fugitive

A tool breaks when needed most

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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🌻 75 Random Writing/Art Prompts 🌻

A Garden Tool

A Math Term

A Natural Disaster

A Type of Gemstone

Aches and Pains

Airport Visit

Alarm Signals

Angelic Heraldry

At the Casino

Be Brave

Bedroom Items

Big City Life

Board Games

Can You Believe It?

Crafting Items

Farming

Feeling Energetic

First Date

Found in the Forest

Found in the Home

Found in the Office

Fun Things to Do

Get It Done

Getting Colder

Gone Fishing

Hotel Visit

Hung on the Wall

Investigators

It's All Good

It's the End

Job Interview

Journalism

Joyful Feelings

Just a Taste

Just Saying

Just Witchy Things

Keeping Time

Laundry Day

Let's Travel

Loving Words

Magic Show

Medicine Cabinet

Modes of Transport

Nature and the Outdoors

Not All of It

Not Smart

Office Life

On the Cold Side

On the Farm

Outdoor Activities

Painting Colours

Ruin It

Sacred Texts

School Life

Search and Rescue

Security Measures

Shades of Blue

Shades of Brown

Shades of Green

Spring Flowers

Sushi Rolls

Sweet Treats

Tell the Truth

The Wild West

They Bite!

They're Criminals

Things that Melt

Thinking It Over

Types of Drama

Under the Sea

Very Weird

Water Cycle

Weather

Winter Survival

Zen Garden

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💋 125 Random Writing/Art Prompts 💋

A Lot of Bugs

A Quick Pint

A Way with Words

Absolutely First Class

Affirmation

All About Sport

All Green

All the World's a Stage

Are You Sure?

Artistic

Back to the Sixties

Bamboozle

Born In 1970

Bristle

Budding Novelist

Cake Shop

Canal Ride

Cast

Castaway

Chatterbox

Checkmate

Computer Software

Constellations

Containers

Control

Cultured

Damaged Goods

Discussion

Do You Take Sugar?

Dumped

Fair's In Town

Fashion Sense

Favourite Food

Flawless

Flimsy

Friendship

Full Ahead

Full Moon

Heart of Glass

Heavenly Body

Heroes of the War

Hide and Seek

Holiday Cruise

Home From Home

Hot Ticket

House Building

How Clean Is Your House?

Human Bones

I Like It

In Church

In the Driveway

In the Gym

Insensible

Invention

Is Everything In Order

Is That Clear?

It All Adds Up

It's Just A Game

Jilted

Job Description

Just Imagine

Legendary Water Creature

Little Miss

Local Authority

Looking Good

Marriage

Misled

Money Matters

Movement

My Intention

Need Any Help?

Oh Yes, We Can!

Old West

Over the Hill

Par For the Course

Pen Names

Photographic Memory

Physics

Pick

Picnic Time

Pioneer

Resolution

Rivers

Rolling

Rush Hour

Satirical

Search High and Low

Self-Starter

Show Jumping

Silent Letters

Situation

Soup

Sparkling

Spy Films

St Patrick's Day

Straightforward

Sweet Dreams

Tall Order

Tally Ho!

Tarot Reading

Tasty Chocolate

That's Big

The Gentleman's Game

The Great War

The Teenage Years

The World of Gardening

Time to Recycle

Tin Cans

To Engineer

Top Chef

United

Unusual First Name

Ups and Downs

Villains and Superheroes

War and Peace

We Have A Problem

Well, It's Hard!

What A Noise!

What's the Problem?

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

Whose Shoes?

Winter Pudding

Winter Wonderland

Witch

Worms

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60 Random Writing/Fanfiction Prompts

Affirm

Agitation

Amusing

An ancient city

Anatomy

Anger

Beauty

Bedtime

Board games

Boats

Body language

Boxes

Building

Canals

Children

Choose

Clever things

Climbing

Clothing

Cooking

Coughs and sneezes

Dressmaking

Dry

Education

Endangered species

Escape

Examination

Exciting words

Flower arranging

Flying machines

Ghosts

Herbal remedies

Herbs and spices

Hot stuff

In the greenhouse

In the park

Lights

Lightweight

Medical matters

Military aircraft

Move

On fire

On the edge

People who write

Perfect

Perfume

Printworks

Quick

Repair

Results

Retirement

Shopping list

Show jumping

Theatrical

Things to give up

Three times over

Train ride

Transport

Warm words

Wedding

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55 random prompts for writing!

A large structure

A lazy weekend

Accommodation

Afraid

An Alaskan cruise

An aquatic predator

At a restaurant

Attending an interview

Bad temper

Bees!

Bicycling

Bird of prey

Bird watching

Bones

Book publishing

Colours

Committing a crime

Competition

Computing

Connecting worlds

Cumbersome

DIY

Facial expressions

Found in the pockets

Fresh air

Graduation

Greeting cards

Hairstyles

Hospital

I have no words

Inventor

Let's go to the moon!

Light source

Look up and see…

Mountain range

New technology

Notify

Outgoing

Pets

Primrose

Sculpting

Signs

Six little words

Skincare

Soft

Storms

Surfing

The kitchen

Too many mathematical words

Transforming

Two of a kind

Wasps!

Wedding day

Wine

Woodwork

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💍 20 Random Prompts for Writing (16)

Bugged

River Run

Let's Work Out

All Round

Hi There!

Talking Rubbish

Opposites

Carry On

Say Cheese

Smells Nice

Film Fright

Nicknames

Fly Away

Under Cover

Be Civilised

Homeward Bound

Make A Splash

Bless This House

That's Smart

Love Is In the Air

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💄 20 Random Prompts for Writing (15)

Stitched Up

Be Supportive

Gruesome

Three's a Crowd

Time Flies

Read All About It

Dull and Drab

The Bells!

Train of Thought

Chef's Special

House Bound

On the Mend

Sneer and Jeer

Full Support

Taxable

Acting Up

Making Movies

In Concert

What a Shock

Wine List

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💋 20 Random Prompts for Writing (14)

Elemental

What A Carry On

Take Your Pick

Smile Please

Shopping Trip

Water Ways

Make Do

Stick Together

Be Kind

Oh No!

Shoe Shine

What a Performance

Donated

What a Laugh

All the Rage

Messy Business

Windy

Big Talk

Sounds Right

Dress Sense

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🕶 20 Random Prompts for Writing (13)

It's a Puppet

Musical Hit

Going Solo

Herb List

Perplexing

Name the Day

Grand Prix

Short and Sharp

Green Fingers

Tool Box

All Aboard!

Keep In Touch

Getting Chilly

In Water

What's Hot

Bloomers

Catch a Thief

Happy Landings

Soccer Scene

River Deep