Tag: prompts

4 Days to SIWC… 4 Writing Prompts from the 4 A.M. Breakthrough

Oct 22, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in starters

4 Prompts from one of my favorite prompt books, The 4 A.M. Breakthrough, by Brian Kiteley 1. Write about a shopping list, as if this shopping list had much more meaning than it could possibly hold. Imagine this list found hundreds of years later and analyzed for hidden meaning (or perhaps without understanding of its…
Writing scale from The Pocket Muse

Sep 6, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, short stories, starters

Just like musicians believe in practicing scales as a way of preparing, staying in tune with the music, and connecting to something familiar, I’m a firm believer that writers can get going and create new work, even when they feel blocked, by using a writing scale, or prompt. I call them starters, and…