Category: Interesting or Controversial

Interesting or Controversial is a collection of things that might spark writing ideas in reaction to what you see.

5 tabletop RPGs that you can play alone

Famous Writers on where they get their ideas: Stephen King, John Irving, Alan Hollinghurst

Use the day as it is

Come on, it is April the first. Great story ideas are being wasted as jokes today. Use one.

Live storytelling

Shaz from H. E. Theatre Kids has been helping children stuck at home to the virus outbreak by making up stories live with audience suggestions. This is the…

Why we need writers

Introducing writing dares

For the whole of NaNoWriMo, we will post daily writing dares. You do not have to use them on the day they come out. Nor at all. But,…

The lie of the so-called “natural writer”

Overcoming writer’s block

Failure is not fatal

On inspiration

More prompts than you could ever use

Publishing writing prompts is a popular business. Here are ten links to massive collections of writing prompts. 500+ Writing prompts Writer’s Digest’s archive of creative writing prompts 365…

Her laugh

What has made this woman laugh? What outrageous story has she just been told? And who told it?

Overcoming writer’s anxiety

Fan fiction habits that kill your writing

Do you agree with this video? Are some habits from fan fiction bad for commercial writing?

Getting rid of a dead body

Mental illness

Use questions to get writing

Sometimes, what you need to get you writing is a good debate; or at least an open-ended question. Fellow Author Buzz blog, “I probably should be writing“, has…

Use caption competitions to spark ideas

One way to get ideas going in your brain is to have a go at a few wildly unlikely caption competitions. Trying to spin a story that explains…

The tree with a face on it

You have to admit this is a pretty strange image. Is there a story here? Can the tree talk? Is it magical? Let the picture spark your imagination.

The dark editor