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Write an entire chapter describing complex events that turn out to be from fifty years ago. Bonus points if vampires are involved you make this chapter relevant by…
Events in your story have to stop while two or more characters get into an argument over who gets to eat the last biscuit (cookie).
We dare you to write while listening to this white noise track loudly. (Maybe use headphones).
Due to advanced magic or poorly understood technology, time rewinds and your characters must live through the events of the last chapter a second time. Maybe they change…
We dare you to dress in your smartest or most outrageous clothes as if you were about to receive the Book of the Year award for your novel….
Perhaps they were not thinking. Maybe they did not realise it was a secret. Maybe their mouth started before their brain. It could be that they say the…
We dare you to write at least 500 words at night in the garden while wearing pyjamas. Bonus points if you only use a pencil, paper, and a…
With no fanfare or warning, right where you are up to now, add in a character called Dan. Dan is a bad influence on everyone. Bonus points if…
Get yourself a bowl of ice cream. Put it next to where you write. Start writing. You cannot eat the ice cream until you reach your daily word…
This is a bold and challenging dare – throw out everything that has happened as a hallucination and then re-tell what actually happened (with many details different). How…
We dare you to take a five-minute loo break and use that time to write (using the loo optional).
Write at least a page while soaking in a hot bath. Write only using a stick of charcoal. You can get charcoal from Amazon or a local art…
Maybe your character is too tired to work. Perhaps there has been a minor argument. It might be that a character is cold and wet. Whatever the reason,…
Get yourself a bowl of fruit. Get as many different fruits as you can – apples (one red, one green), a banana, a plumb, a peach, and so…
One of your characters is given five colourful stones. Each one will grant a single wish. One grants the wish perfectly as imagined by the wisher. Three grant…
We dare you to sing (as loudly as you can) in the shower or bath about your upcoming plot ideas.
The fantasy news generator is a blog that I created which takes real headlines and does a bunch of word replacements to make news from the world of…
To progress, your characters need to use a key to open something. The key they need is part of a massive collection of keys. Everything grinds to a…
Use one or more of the inventive words from The Fictional Dictionary of Bad Language. The fictional dictionary is available in ebook form on Amazon. Below is a…
Write at least 500 words while under a table. Bonus points if this is in a public place.
Your character is so very tired. They just want to go to bed and get some sleep. However, fate seems to have other ideas. Every time they feel…
Choose one song that you would not normally listen to (in a genre you normally avoid) and listen to just that song on repeat while you write 1,667…