Creative Writing Prompt #6
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Have some fun with second person point-of-view. Take a character you’ve already written, or create a new one, and write a scene in the second person. Need some parameters? There is something in the character’s pocket s/he feels obliged to share but compelled to hide.
Creative Writing Prompt #5
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Your character is cleaning his/her clothing closet. Why? What is in it? What will be tossed, donated, kept? What item(s) should be tossed but will be kept instead? Why?
Creative Writing Prompt #4
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
What happens when your character learns a new skill? Write a scene in third-person point of view with your character and his/her instructor for the new skill. Want to learn more about your character? Re-write the scene in first-person point of view.
Creative Writing Prompt #3
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Prompt #3
Write a scene in first-person point of view in which the narrator is going to celebrate his/her best friend’s birthday at a hotel bar (I like to imagine the Driskill in Austin, but use whatever hotel bar you love). The narrator has never been to the bar before and has dressed inappropriately. The best friend cannot hide his/her dislike of the narrator’s gift. Make the most of the point of view, and be sure to keep the reader at the edge of the narrator’s understanding of the situations at hand.
I study and practice the craft of writing for multiple audiences and purposes. Through my experience in public relations, grant writing, and academia, I have acquired the ability to create text that garners results. I hold a MA in English literature and a MFA in Creative Writing. Having taught nearly 900 students in classes ranging from business writing to creative writing, I believe in writer-centered instruction as the most effective way to empower my clients. 
