Day 30: Photo Prompt

Congratulations, writers — you made it!  Or at least, you’ll have made it if you can come up with a storyline to go with this beautiful photo:

Day 29: Dig Deeper

For our final Dig Deeper of 2019, we’re going to ask you to look back or forward at the 46,667 words you’ve written so far:

Write the prologue or epilogue to your book. What comes immediately before and after your narrative?

(This prompt courtesy of saganmorrow.com.)

Day 28: Story Starter

You’re in the homestretch!  This will be our last Story Starter prompt for NaNoWriMo 2019, and it should be an appropriate one for today:

Two characters meet to share a meal …

(This prompt courtesy of the Paperblanks Blog.)

Day 27: Photo Prompt

Urban exploration is one of those hobbies that I find fascinating but am too much of a wimp to do in real life.  Writing about it is probably a better choice for me.  Where was this photo taken?  Why?  And how long has it been since someone last slept in that bed?

Day 26: Dig Deeper

Ever thought of writing an epistolary novel?  Fortunately we’re not going to ask you to write a whole one, but today you might try coming up with:

A letter or some kind of written correspondence between your protagonist and antagonist. What do they have to say to one another?

(This prompt courtesy of saganmorrow.com.)

Day 25: Story Starter

Hope you’ve got a lot of time on your hands, because today’s story starter could send you down a very long rabbit hole:

Go to Wikipedia.org and use the daily featured article to inspire your next plot point.

(This prompt courtesy of the Paperblanks Blog.)

Day 24: Photo Prompt

Whose story is this — the child’s, the cat’s, or the parent/guardian/adult who thought it was a good idea to give the cat to the child?

Day 23: Dig Deeper

One of the things to keep in mind about NaNo is that every word counts toward your 50,000 (or more), even if you end up not using it in your final version.  Today we’re going to ask you to work on something that you might end up trashing after the month or day is done.  But I promise it’s not a waste of time — it can be fun to reinterpret someone else’s work, so why not try it with your own?

Write a different version of events in a scene you’ve already written (or a different ending from what you have planned). What if it rained and prevented your main character from ever meeting her love interest? What if a secondary character never showed up when they were supposed to?

(This prompt courtesy of saganmorrow.com.)

 

Day 22: Story Starter

I am not a big reader of fantasy/magical realism, so a lot of my Story Starter and Dig Deeper prompts this month have focused on realistic fiction.  But in the interest of diversifying, here’s one that could feature a rather unusual narrator:

“You know things are pretty bad when waking up dead is the least surprising thing that’s happened to you all week.”

(This prompt courtesy of walkingwriter.com.)

Day 21: Photo Prompt

I don’t even know where to begin with this one, so I sure hope you do.