Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Most Awesome Book for a Writer- EVER

So a few weeks ago, I was in a shop in Marietta, OH called Simple Pleasures and I found this book called 642 Things to Write About.  I immediately knew I had to own this book and holy Edgar Allen, am I glad I bought it.  (Okay, technically my Mom bought it for me as a *very* late birthday present, but that is neither here nor there.)



These prompts were complied by the The San Francisco Writers' Grotto in a measly 24 hours (Po Bronson thought it would take the 35 members maybe a month to come up with that many.)  They include the simple "your favorite jeans", the thought provoking "A conversation you regret never having", and the silly "A hopelessly messy  person and an obsessively neat person become roommates" and many more.  As I stood in the shop reading them with my Mom, we were in stitches.  And oh the story possibilities.
This book has been a great way to help me find my creativity again.  I just flip through the book until I find something that makes my Muse say, "Hold on!  I can so work with that.".  I've worked on a few the prompts thus far and who knows, you might see polished versions on here eventually.

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