Category: Writing daresPage 2 of 7
Something out of the box for you to attempt to include in your work in progress. They might help keep your word count above 1667 words a day.
Are you game for a dare?
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…
Someone tells your character a huge secret. This leaves them conflicted. Ont eh one hand, if they break this confidence they may never be forgiven but, on the…
We dare you to add a kitten as a subplot. This kitten is filled with murderous rage but is small and fluffy and, thus, comically incapable of murder.
We dare you to put a poll on Twitter and invite your followers to vote on one of four outcomes for your plot.
Have your character encounter, find, or make a seemingly inanimate object that laughs sometimes.
Your protagonist uncovers a shocking secret of conspiracy theory levels of scope, scale, and bizarreness.
We dare you to reveal that one of your characters is in fact a spy working for the Russians.
Skips two or three meals so that you are really hungry. Use that hunger to more accurately depict one of your characters being hungry.
For reasons that only you can tell us about, the fate of the world no hinges on coffee. Is coffee going to save the world, damn the world,…
We dare you to try and fit everything here into one chapter.
Write at least 350 words in a dimly lit room. Bonus points if you wear sunglasses the curtains are closed there are underpants on your head you are…
Here is a pretty random collection of items. How many of these items can you squeeze into a single scene? Bonus points for making them all plot relevant…
It turns out that some of your characters are figments of another character’s imagination.