WC Grad Student ideas
Prompts
- You find a cell phone in a forest. The only number in the history, repeated over and over, is your own
- You discover your partner has been seeing someone else. That’s weird, you’ve been seeing them, too!
- Some relationships just weren’t meant to be. It’s time for this one to end, and both of you know it’ll be for the best
- (For one month, use two pictures as the writing prompts)
- (Check that writing prompt twitter)
Workshops
- “It is/was” story starters
- Writing voice for characters/types out of your wheelhouse
- I have no clue about detectives, haven’t liked those kinds of stories
- Write one
- Expanding your genres
- Pick a genre you don’t like, write a first line/paragraph
- Write a last line/paragraph
- Genre bending
- out of place elements (cell phone in fantasy setting)
- things taken in stride (everyone in fantasy setting has cell phones)
- Surprise
- Using surprise intentionally
- Not just reveals, but everything from language usage to character reactions
- Showing emotions
- Show sadness without anything commonly associated with sadness (no crying, no talking about how they feel)
- What does the character pick up? What do they eat? What do they say and to whom?
- Shit sandwiches
- Giving good feedback
- Writing good reviews
- When is infodumping okay