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Random Scene Generator: 10 Steps to Solve the “I don’t know what to write” Problem


It’s day 10 of NaNoWriMo or November 10 for those of us not doing NaNoWriMo. So it seems like a good time to revisit this, my most popular post. Even if you aren’t doing NaNoWriMo, you can still play with the Random Scene Generator.  Random Scene Generator It takes about a half-hour to create your […]

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Random Writing Prompts to Solve Writer’s Block


My last post explained why writing prompts work and provided links for finding them. You can also create your own creative constraints via the Random Scene Generator, a tool I introduced several years ago in what has become my most viewed post. I created the Random Scene Generator (RSG) as a birthday present for a […]

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Announcements: Group Discount on Fiction Class


  The Instant Fiction 4-day intensive workshop I’m teaching at Madeline Island School of the Arts August 16 – 20 needs more students. This will be a really fun class with lots of in-class writing to generate energy and ideas for either new material or stories and characters you’re already working with. We’ll meet in […]

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