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Writing Prompt!

June 20, 2014June 16, 2014 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

In the spirit of the Hugo awards, if you had to nominate a story, any story ever, what would it be and why? Can you incorporate what you like about that story into your own?

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June 13, 2014June 9, 2014 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

In Starrise at Corrivale, Duane takes some common sci-fi tropes and subverts them. Pick your favorite trope and write it in a new and unexpected way.

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March 21, 2014March 17, 2014 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

We all have our favorite stories, so take your favorite fairy tale or just-so story or romance and change its genre. What would happen if your witch was actually a scientist or your hunky lead was a werewolf?

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February 7, 2014October 17, 2022 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

Following in the footsteps of Terry Border‘s art, animate an inanimate object and have it share its secret desires and ambitions with us.

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January 31, 2014January 29, 2014 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

Evanovich’s problem is that her characters never learn from their mistakes. Go back to your writing and make sure that your characters actually move forward and develop in a realistic fashion–for the better OR the worse.

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January 3, 2014December 29, 2013 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

In the vein of Dresden, disguise something magical in the everyday. Brownies with a cleaning service? Unicorns at the zoo? Go as big as you can.

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December 27, 2013December 18, 2013 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

Give us a story about a Chekovian Gun. What, once it enters the story, must go off for the story to be complete?

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December 20, 2013December 15, 2013 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

In American Gods, Gaiman creates some new gods for our new culture. What new god would you introduce to our society?

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December 13, 2013December 9, 2013 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

Take a deity, and for funsies, pick a relatively unknown one. What is it doing today? What kind of job does he/she have?

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November 22, 2013November 18, 2013 / Rebecca Demarest / Leave a comment

Characters that have lived together for a long time have set routines and expectations. Set those up for us, then shatter them with an unexpected scenario!

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