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Matthew is a writer, web dev, and geek from Kent (UK). He is the founder and current chair of Thanet Creative as well as head geek for Author Buzz. His ambitions include seeing a film or TV series based on something he wrote. Matt is also responsible for fixing stuff on AuthorBuzz.co.uk when it breaks.
You wake up one morning with a burning need to go on a quest. The urban area you live in does not exactly offer you many quest opportunities….
How meta can you go? Get a story within a story by having a character attempt NaNoWriMo. If you get stuck, you can always write how the character…
If you feel like you have got “flo” maybe your characters could engage in a rap battle. If you can’t rhyme for toffee, maybe the characters are much…
Can you hide a count up (or down) in your text by including numbers that increase (or decrease) over the narrative segment or chapter? Some easy cases might…
Due to a spelling error, one of your characters gets entirely the wrong idea about something. However, while following up on the false lead they stumble upon new…
Your main or supporting character is significantly hampered by catching a nasty bug. With a high temperature, sore throat, and aches and pains they find they can do…
You or your protagonist makes a phone call. A pair of numbers got accidentally swapped. The call connects to an assassin that has been hired to kill you/them.
Today’s dare is this. Add some cats to the story. Each time anything happens more cats have arrived. Have an endless army of cats that the characters have…
During a raid, the police take possession of a perfectly ordinary-looking computer. However, when the tech team plug it in, the computer complains that it has been detained…
Have your characters make plans that will strongly advance the plot only for the whole day to be a massive waste of time due to bus or train…
In this dare, take your protagonists out for posh food. However, chaos ensues as the person taking the orders keeps misunderstanding and making mistakes. Find a way to…
In today’s dare, you characters play a tabletop RPG such as Dungeons and Dragons. Perhaps this brings hidden feelings to the surface, causes a rift between characters, inspires…
Without disrupting your plot or characterisation, how many pop culture references can you squeeze into a single page?
Happy NaNoWriMo everyone. Here we are with a new set of writing dares to see you through the month. A wrong number introduces an unexpected complication (writing dare)
You were murdered. Determined to make the most of your death, you decide to haunt your killer. Just as you were getting the hang of this haunting lark,…
In the United Kingdom of Great Britain, tweets are making their way hundreds and sometimes thousands of years into the past giving rise to a new meaning of…
Last night, you and your best friend of many years went out drinking. Your friend got very drunk. While drunk, your friend told you their biggest secret. Your…
The undead were once trendsetters. Social media ended that. This prompt comes from Twitter.
An oxymoron is when two apparently contradictory or opposite words are used together to express a complex truth. Parting is such sweet sorrow Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet It…
I have curated a selection of the writing prompts found on Twitter. If you want something to get you writing, this might be it. They are from accounts…
After accidentally stumbling through an experimental time warp, you ended up injured in the far future. They fixed you up and sent you back again. Only there might…
An older, but somehow familiar, man appears suddenly in front of you. He staggers forwards and presses a torn scrap of paper into your hands before vanishing again….