Writing while you sleep?
Now - there’s a thought! Wouldn’t it be ‘luvverly’ if you woke up each morning and the writing pixies had been busy all night on your keyboard? Sure to be nothing but fairy tales though.
Say - there’s another story idea - WHAT IF you wrote a story about pixies writing your story [...]

Okay - so you are trying to face a day of writing - but the ideas just won’t come.
Nothing.
It’s a frustrating feeling, knowing that you have to get a story written in the next two days and off to meet the magazine deadline or competition due date, but you have no ideas. The sinking feeling [...]

It has been quite a few months since I gave my last writing prompt, so it’s time for another one.
This time I thought I’d do something different. Instead of just one idea, I’m going to give a list of writing ideas. Use these ideas however you want. You might get an idea for a story, [...]

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
Jane Yolen

Good advice.
As writers we need to be writing on a regular basis. I could almost guarantee that Tiger [...]

It has been far too long since my last set of short story starters was published here. Entries in this series of articles have proved very popular with my readers for several years now.
Use them
I invite you to look through this latest list of short story starters. If anything grabs your imagination, run with it. [...]