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Fantasy: March 30, 2011 Issue [#4314]

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 This week: Prompting Fantasy
  Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

"Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write." ~ Paul Rudnick

"The writer's duty is to keep on writing." ~ William Styron


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Letter from the editor

Can a prompt help overcome writer’s block? Is the issues procrastination rather then writer’s block? If I have a prompt to inspire me, then it does not matter whether the problem is procrastination or writer’s block. I type the prompt in the document header and begin typing. I can use the prompt as a warm up exercise. I can use it to suggest a plot for a story or novel.

A prompt gets me writing. Once I begin putting words into a document, I continue until I finish the story or reach my minimum word count goal. It does not matter how many interruptions intrude because the prompt helps me refocus on the story. It may take me several hours to meet the word count goal. It may take me several days to finish the story. Since the prompt is in the header of the document, it is always there for me to read.

I have found that most writing prompts are not genre specific; therefore, I can use any one of them in a fantasy or science fiction story. I can find prompts everywhere. A prompt can be a headline or a quote, I pick the prompt, start writing the story, and ignore my inner critic.



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Ask & Answer

MumstheWord Author Icon writes: Great newsletter, great question. I use 'What if' all over the place, it got me through some tricky spots during NaNo. I find answers to my 'What if' scenarios by simply looking out of the window.
What if...the a tree fell down, they had a picnic, the sun turned black or the grass turned blue?
Or perhaps changing the room I'm in.
What if...she had a cup of tea, there was a power cut, the microwave asked me to fix her up with the dishwasher or (heaven forbid) there was no chocolate left in the fridge?
Even if the answers can't possibly tie in with what I'm currently writing, they are sometimes enough to get the creative juices flowing again.

Kx

BIG BAD WOLF is Howling Author Icon writes: I asked myself the question "What if a woman went into a bar run by another woman, and she puts a roofie in the woman's drink?" Then I asked, "What if the Barkeeper was a lesbian werewolf?" The result is funny and scary.

tracikenworth writes: The "what if" question can do much to strengthen our writing. Great article!!

Lothmorwel Author Icon writes: Good advice, it is essential to do a huge amount of rewriting. I don't agree about not letting it sit for more than a few days. I find I edit better if I have forgotten what the story involves and how it goes. That way when I come to read it it's like I'm reading it for the fiorst time, and errors are more obvious. Re-reding too soon means I just skim over the words as I know what's hapening and don't pick up on glitches. Each to their own.

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