Tag: NaNoWriMo
If you use writing dares to help you get writing, The Muse of Last Resort (that’s this blog) has you covered. There’s an entire site section dedicated 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…
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…
Here is a tip to pad out your word count and make your plot a little longer. Have your protagonist misunderstand an instruction or a situation. Have them…
In the lead-up to your characters trying to get whatever it is they want, have them talk about why they are doing what they are doing. Have them…
I’m on a mission to locate all the dare threads. Today, I browsed the NaNoWriMo science fiction dare thread. No spoilers here – go enjoy the thread.
How meta can you go? Get a story within a story by having a character attempt NaNoWriMo. If you get stuck, you can always write how the character…
Happy NaNoWriMo everyone. Here we are with a new set of writing dares to see you through the month. A wrong number introduces an unexpected complication (writing dare)
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo ) is also known as November by boring not-writer people. The challenge is to forget about plot and perfect prose and just bash…
Your character joins NaNoWriMo and starts writing a story. It is the story you are writing.
Every now and then you see a strange hedgehog in your garden. Each time, it means you will have something life-changing happen to you. Today, there were nine…
Have one or more of your characters go off the deep end with a huge rant about something mundane, like the correct way to make tea. Milk in…
How do you make sure that you have enough time to write 50,000 words in November? This video asks the NaNoWriMo staff to share their top tips.
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,…
NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow which means that all that creative prompting energy might be going elsewhere for a whole month. Don’t worry, I’ve been scheduling these prompts weeks in…