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Writing dare: Add some poo to your chapter

Introduce poo as a theme and/or plot point in your chapter. Perhaps someone trod in it. Maybe someone failed to flush the loo. Or, perhaps, a baby needs…

IRL writing dare: Include overheard comments

We dare you to sit somewhere public and include conversations you overhear into your story.

#NaNoWriMo padding: Relative morality debate

Have a character suggest a shady action that would (if it works) help the characters overcome the antagonist. Have them debate the relative morality of doing evil for…

Writing dare: Take Five!

Take a dip into our writing dares archive. Try and get five of them on the same page.

Writing dare: Your character temporarily gains magical powers

Your character, by chance, is temporarily granted magical power. For a short while, they can bend the very nature of reality itself to their will. What do they…

Writing dare: Your characters stop what they are doing to go inside and get a nice warm cup of coffee

It is cold outside. You characters decide to take a break and go inside to warm up. They enjoy a nice hot cup of coffee as they talk…

Writing Dare: Write an entire chapter describing complex events that turn out to be from fifty years ago

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…

IRL writing dare: Write on a bus

We dare you to write part of your story while riding on a bus.

Writing dare: An argument over biscuits (cookies)

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).

IRL writing dare: Write while listening to this white noise on loud

We dare you to write while listening to this white noise track loudly. (Maybe use headphones).

Writing dare: As your previous chapter ends, a time loop causes your characters to live through those events a second time

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…

IRL writing dare: Dress for success

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….

Writing dare: Your character reveals a huge secret

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…

IRL writing dare: In the garden, at night, in your pyjamas

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…

Writing Dare: Where you are up to add a character called Dan who is bad news

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…

IRL writing dare: Bowl of melting ice cream sprint

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…

Writing dare: Everything up to now has been a fairly prophetic hallucination

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…

IRL writing dare: Sneak off for a quick loo break and sneak in some writing

We dare you to take a five-minute loo break and use that time to write (using the loo optional).

IRL writing dare: Write in the bath using only charcoal

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…

Writing dare: Someone saves a bad situation with the timely gift of coffee

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,…

IRL writing dare: Bowl of fruit

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…

Writing dare: Someone gets five wishes but there is a catch

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…

IRL writing dare: Sing in the shower about your plot ideas

We dare you to sing (as loudly as you can) in the shower or bath about your upcoming plot ideas.

Writing dare: Incorporate as many headlines from the fantasy news generator as you can

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…