Writer's Block Workbook 4: 1,000+ story component prompts and 50+ tips to get you writing again!

by Morgen Bailey

Writer's Block Workbook 4 features over a thousand component 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 three prompts per day each • there are two characters, usually a job, description or name*.• this can be how one or both of the characters act or are feeling.• where your story could be set. They might be a generic location (hospital) or somewhere more specific (Funafuti, Tuvalu, in the Pacific Ocean, north east of Australia).• often unrelated to location or characters – how can this feature in your story?• this is your problem. It may relate to the characters, location or object, and again you don’t have to use it if it doesn’t fit with the story you have in mind. Some may not be obvious problems, e.g. ‘feeling particularly sunny’ but every story has to have conflict so this could be the start then things go wrong, although the conflict has to come early for the starting ‘hook’.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.The Weekly Tips 1 – conflictWeek 2 – ghost stories and plotsWeek 3 – familiesWeek 4 – the fear of the knownWeek 5 – celebritiesWeek 6 – eventsWeek 7 – things changeWeek 8 – writing what you don’t knowWeek 9 – misunderstandingsWeek 10 – onomatopoeic wordsWeek 11 – unfamiliar locationsWeek 12 – writing what you knowWeek 13 – colour chartsWeek 14 – people watchingWeek 15 – addictionsWeek 16 – stay one step ahead of your readerWeek 17 – coincidencesWeek 18 – funny ha ha or peculiarWeek 19 – expositionWeek 20 – blond or blondeWeek 21 – clichés, its vs it’s, losing the up or downWeek 22 – mind your languageWeek 23 – split infinitivesWeek 24 – decades and numbersWeek 25 – when to set your storyWeek 26 – when life gets in the wayWeek 27 – wrapping up your threadsWeek 28 – something to be scared ofWeek 29 – hyphens and commas in adjectivesWeek 30 – learning something new every readWeek 31 – who we think we knowWeek 32 – home not so sweet homeWeek 33 – fan fictionWeek 34 – characters’ namesWeek 35 – something to look up toWeek 36 – not so dauntingWeek 37 – it was all a dreamWeek 38 – bored with characters who are boredWeek 39 – don’t follow a trendWeek 40 – subconscious or unconsciousWeek 41 – contentious subjectsWeek 42 – love it or hate itWeek 43 – what’s missingWeek 44 – character interactionWeek 45 – as the night gives way to morningWeek 46 – too dark and too coldWeek 47 – on a deadlineWeek 48 – directions and seasonsWeek 49 – forgetfulnessWeek 50 – inverted dialogue tagsWeek 51 – fine-tuning dialogueWeek 52 – overuse of certain wordsUseful for any writer at any level, whether they have 10 minutes or 10 hours, to start a new project.

142 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 7, 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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