Susan Lynn Meyer

Writing Prompt Fridays

I post writing prompts here on Fridays.  Most will work for fiction writers and memoirists and for both kids and adults.  To surprise yourself, when you are ready to commit to writing, scroll down past the photo for a writing prompt!

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It’s a special Friday today–it is Alternative Reality Day!

Fiction writers:

Write a story from the point of view of a character who is distinctly unlike you.

Memoir writers:

What if?  Imagine how your life would have gone differently if something important had been different.  For example, what if your parents had divorced when you were small?  What if you had grown up in a different city?  What if the birth order of you and your siblings had been different?  What if you had had a flat tire on the way to a job interview or the senior prom?  What if you had been turned down by the college you went to?  Hold everything else in your life constant, but imagine what might have happened if something significant had gone differently–and write out an episode from that different life.

 

Posted in Writing Prompt Fridays on 05/20/2016 08:00 am
 

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