What a character sacrifices and what they choose to leave behind in pursuit of their goals says a lot about them. What price has your character already paid?
Perfect characters are boring – what vices do yours have? A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered morally wrong in the associated society. In more…
Character wants are (usually) what motivates them to start whereas what they need is often the thing that satisfies them even if they do not get what they…
In this reimagining of Cinderella that you are going to write, Cinderella is a clockwork automaton left to her maker’s wife and stepdaughters after he passed away. This…
You were just minding your own business when a steam-powered dirigible lands next to you. An eccentric gentleman climbs out of the cockpit and demands to know what…
In this Cinderella story, you are about to write, her father was an inventor and her only friends are sentient clockwork creatures. There is no fairy (so to…
Try this writing dare: Have your characters kidnapped in a shocking case of mistaken identity. Extra conceptual points if these events help bring them closer to the resolution…
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…
In this first entry for our new journalling prompts section, we suggest you reflect on what you are looking forward to – both soon and much further down…