Check out our prompts below:
1/ Your character is an author who has given up on their current project and doesn’t know if they’ll ever complete it. One night, two dodgy characters of the author’s own creation turn up at the door wanting a word...
2/ Your character discovers an old diary (their own or someone else's) and begins to read…
3/ Take a real author (dead or alive) and make them the subject of a story. Bonus points for anything that includes time-travel or culture clash. (What would Jane Austen be like on Insta…?
4/ Someone your character went to school with has, unexpectedly, become a famous and lauded novelist. There’s a Netflix adaptation in the works. Your character reads the book and is convinced that the main character is based on them…
5/ Your character finds what looks like the completed manuscript for a novel in a bag on a bus. (For a brilliant treatment of a similar premise, see Morven Callar by Alan Warner or Lila, Lila by Martin Suter)
6/ Your character is an aspiring author. But instead of concentrating on the book they dream of writing, they have become obsessed with getting their author’s biog or cover blurb perfect…
7/ In the library you pick up a random novel and start leafing through it. Folded into the pages is an anonymously written letter that begins ‘Dear Reader, Congratulations, you have found me…’
8/ Write a piece that is somehow about a single word. It can be a real word, or you can make up your own, complete with definition and examples of usage.
9/ Your character has been given the job of ghost-writing the memoir of someone famous or notorious in their field with a reputation for not suffering fools.. Write a scene where the two of them meet for the first time…
10/ A not-very-successful novelist is picking up a bottle of wine at the self-service kiosk in Tesco when someone taps them on the shoulder and says, “Hey! I can’t believe it. Are you really…?”
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