Writer's Block Workbook 3: 1,000+ random story prompts and 50+ tips to cure your writer's block!

by Morgen Bailey

Writer's Block Workbook 3 features over a thousand random prompts, three per day, with writing tips at the end of each week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’.Each week is formatted with random prompts under the following • Day 1: character – the protagonist (hero/heroine) or antagonist (anti-hero/heroine)• Day 2: a single object or objects• Day 3: a location or the environment• Day 4: timing• Day 5: a story plot or scene• Day 6: something utterly random• Day 7: a change – a prompt from one of the days is different, e.g. travel by plane instead of car or it’s winter instead of summer.These may either impact your story or you might like to write a new one.Each line will refer to its same place on the date stated, i.e. the first change refers to the first line of a particular day.At the end of each week there is a tip, either inspired by one or more of the prompts or another that may help you independently. Some may feel very random but don’t worry, it can take just one word to inspire a story.The Weekly Tips 1 – locations, locations, locationsWeek 2 – avoid coincidencesWeek 3 – an air of mysteryWeek 4 – the five sensesWeek 5 – the relatability of storiesWeek 6 – an unreliable narratorWeek 7 – working with children and animalsWeek 8 – the root of some evilWeek 9 – hiding behind the costumeWeek 10 – fashion accessoriesWeek 11 – sibling rivalryWeek 12 – regretsWeek 13 – phobiasWeek 14 – writing seasonal storiesWeek 15 – second-person point of viewWeek 16 – the environment and deadlinesWeek 17 – family motivationWeek 18 – blonds, blondes, fiancés, fiancéesWeek 19 – keeping it simpleWeek 20 – inanimate objectsWeek 21 – routinesWeek 22 – nothing to loseWeek 23 – scaling the conflictWeek 24 – avoid clichéd endingsWeek 25 – the leader of the packWeek 26 – genresWeek 27 – confined spacesWeek 28 – stages of lifeWeek 29 – battlesWeek 30 – determinationWeek 31 – passionWeek 32 – new beginningsWeek 33 – characters, characters, charactersWeek 34 – the emotional journeyWeek 35 – no one is safeWeek 36 – surprise, surprise, surpriseWeek 37 – colour me happyWeek 38 – think of the unusualWeek 39 – firstsWeek 40 – changing with the timesWeek 41 – treading carefully Week 42 – realistic dialogueWeek 43 – showing not tellingWeek 44 – onomatopoeiaWeek 45 – story endingsWeek 46 – chapter endingsWeek 47 – repetitionWeek 48 – times and datesWeek 49 – play niceWeek 50 – _ly adverbsWeek 51 – we all make mistakesWeek 52 – and now for some funUseful for any writer at any level, whether they have 10 minutes or 10 hours, to start a new project. Also an ideal tool for writing groups.

128 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 19, 2020

About the author

Morgen Bailey – Morgen with an E – is a freelance editor, writing tutor (in person and online), blogger (helping other authors, sharing tips etc.), Writers’ Forum magazine ‘Competitive Edge’ columnist, speaker, author of several novels (at various stages), 400+ short stories, a series of writer’s block workbooks, an editing guide, articles, and has dabbled with poetry. She is an avid supporter of all things creative writing.

Former Chair of three writing groups, she has judged the H.E. Bates Short Story Competition, RONE, as well as the Althorp Literary Festival children’s short story, BBC Radio 2, and BeaconLit 500-word flash fiction competitions. She also runs her own monthly 100-word competition and was Flash 500's 2018-9 judge.

Events included talks and workshops at Troubador’s Self Publishing Conference speakers, workshops and panels at Delapre Abbey Book Festival, interviewing and workshops at BeaconLit, and NAWG Fest with her ‘Editing your Fiction’ weekend residential course.

Morgen can regularly be found as morgenwriteruk on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, and LinkedIn. When not online, she edits other authors’ books, reads, loves walking her dog, and somewhere in between all that she writes.

Like Morgen, her website is www.morgenbailey.com and her blog http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com is consumed by all things literary. Her email address is morgen@morgenbailey.com.

You can read / download her eBooks (paid and free) at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, Sony Reader Store, Barnes & Noble, iTunes Bookstore and Kobo.

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