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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post #NaNoWriMo padding: Have characters debate a fandom divide in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
Have your characters get into a heated debate over a fandom divide. Have it blow up into a massive argument. Then you can draw out the cooling down and apologising part too.
This gives you word count and […]
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Blog: What Is the Main Action a Writer Takes When Proofreading? from Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 2 years ago
What is the main action a writer takes when proofreading? Well, proofreading is simple. That may seem like a sacrilegious…
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post IRL writing dare: Write in a dimly lit room in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
Write at least 350 words in a dimly lit room.
Bonus points if
you wear sunglassesthe curtains are closedthere are underpants on your headyou are hidden under a blanket with a weak lightat last one person […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Writing dare: How many objects can you fit in one scene? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
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 in some way.
Photo by Renato Danyi on […]
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TylerDor became a registered member 2 years ago
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Blog: Monster Of The Week 146: PaperTicket from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years ago
Monster Of The Week is PaperTicket, turns up in person when could be on your phone, loves to travel, once upon a time you went everywhere together, time goes on, […]
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Englandwed became a registered member 2 years ago
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Writing dare: Some of your characters are only imaginary in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
It turns out that some of your characters are figments of another character’s imagination.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post #NaNoWriMo padding: The car breaks down in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
Bring your characters to a grinding halt with car troubles. Take us through what the characters do to solve this issue. Who do they call? Can they fix it?
Use this to explore how your characters handle a delay […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post IRL writing dare: Live-stream your writing session in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
We dare you to live-stream your next writing session or sprint.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Writing dare: Your character tells a needless but complicated lie in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
For reasons they might not even understand themselves, your character lies about something. The lie is every bit as complicated as the truth – more so even. Now they are stuck trying to cover up the lie which […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: What Are We Going To Do About Helen Couch by Hammond Diehl from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years ago
What Are We Going To Do About Helen Couch? by Hammond Diehl in Kaleidotrope In Cornwall the fae plan to take control for their queen. Ahead of this, fair folk […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Writing dare: Ice cream denial in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
Writing dare: Ice cream denial Have a character crave some ice cream. Have them go out of their way to try and get some ice cream and yet plot, fate, and chance mean that they […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post #NaNoWriMo padding: Expressing a crush theory in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
Have one character tell another that a third character has a crush on them. Have them explain in great detail why they think they are right. Allow the second character to mull over how they feel about having a […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post IRL writing dare: Let your Twitter followers add some crazy in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
Post a tweet asking your followers to shout out crazy ideas for you to include in your story.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Writing dare: Introduce a majestic elephant into your story in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years ago
Introduce a majestic elephant into your story.
How will your plot change now? What does the elephant’s presence say about your protagonist?
Bonus points if there is a second elephant.
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Blog: I Watch Movies: The Mad Room from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years ago
The Mad Room The widow of a general is trying to build a museum to her late husband at her home on Vancouver Island. This is interrupted when her secretary is […]
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Matthew Brown started the topic If you need me, I'm doing NaNowriMo in the forum General Chat 2 years ago
If you need me this month – shout real loud because I’m doing NaNoWriMo and have challenged myself to write 75,000 words.
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Blog: is an agent a must have requirement to audition for The Sandman? from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years ago
It’s more like a level of known professionalism is a requirement, and that normally manifests as an agent or representative.
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Blog: So can we get more official sandman merch. I was sad I couldn’t find Dream in his glass ball as a Christmas ornament from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years ago
Long long ago the single ugliest piece of Sandman merchandise ever made was the Dream in his glass ball snowglobe. You might have escaped a terrible fate here.
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Blog: My fave local cemetery has James Branch Cabell, and every time I see him I think of you. I knew about the name for a long time because things are named after him around here but didn’t know he was an author and such until I saw you talking about him! from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years ago
That’s marvellous, thank you. I love the epitaph – it’s part of his own dedication poem, from a book of poems called From the Hidden Way. I suppose his wife, Marga […]
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Blog: How did you choose the songs that played in the background when the Sandman was looking for Constantine? Do you listen to that type of music or was it just dream themed songs? I went searching for each one and I love them all from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years ago
Yes. Things like that are specified in the script. They aren’t just written in by the letterer to add to the mood. Edit – I misread it is “did you choose” and not […]
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Blog: I’ve always wondered why you wanted the voice of God to be American… And I am one. But the Metatron was decidedly Jacobi… Sorry, can’t let it go. from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years ago
I wanted the voice of God we heard as a narrator to be an amazing actor. I quite liked the idea of an American voice because our leads are English and I liked the […]
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Blog: If Morpheus had a birth date. What day would it be? from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years ago
As Morpheus observes, you must be born to have a birthday.