Prompts and Exercises
- Character Backstories and History
- Character Card Game
- Describe a Room (and Make a Story out of It)
- Five Line Poem and a Page
- General Character Scene
- Interview a Character
- Negative and Positive
- New Year's Eve Message
- Opening Sentence Based on a Picture (WD Your Story #50)
- Opening Sentence Based on a Picture (WD Your Story #57)
- Rory's Story Cubes
- Starting With Someone Else's Sentence
- Stranded on a Desert Island with Only a Few Items (WD Your Story #49)
- Visualizing Dreams/Settings
- Keep a Dream Log (for inspiration and research)
- Bad Writing Advice (for your amusement)
- Describe Characters (for drafting)
- Describe a Room (for drafting)
- Keep Readers Glued to the Page (for drafting)
- Make New Words or Names With Scrabble (for drafting)
- Make Fourth Dimensional Characters (for drafting)
- Use Conflict (for drafting)
- Plotting with Board Games (Prometheus Example) (for drafting)
- Writing Action (for drafting)
- Overcoming Writer's Block (for drafting)
- Know When to Start Over (for drafting)
- Find Time (for drafting and everything else)
- Finding an Audience (for publication and marketing)
My Short Stories
- House of the Waxing Moon
- Lamentations for the Living Dead
- One Thousand Heartbeats (Demise of the Sentinel)
- Ouroboros: Mass
- Server
- Dark Fairy Chronicles
- The Garrison
- Gods Among Men
- Heathen
- Ouroboros
- Demon-Blood
- Out of the Blue
- Perfectly Inhuman
- Void
Hi Al, I loved your tips. Do you edit short essays?
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