For a few years now, The Muse has shared a growing collection of wild writing dares during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) these are wild and weird things that we dare you to chuck into your writing and see what it does to the plot.

You don’t have to do all the dares but we double dare you to do at least one of them.

Here is a smattering of some of my favourites

Writing dares: The chapter is suddenly flooded with puppies
Writing dare: Spelling errors FTW
A secret crush with bad timing
Writing dare: As your previous chapter ends, a time loop causes your characters to live through those events a second time
Choose the right cup
Writing dare: Your character tells a needless but complicated lie
Writing dare: Take Five!
Mummy?
Writing dare: How many objects can you fit in one scene?
The worst luck ever
Wrtiting dare: Give one of your characters an imaginary friend to argue with
The hedgehog of fate
IRL writing dare: Write under a table
Meme-tastic
Writing dare: Everything is put on hold by a massive bunch of keys
#NaNoWriMo padding: Expressing a crush theory