http://www.openroadwriting.com The destination is better writing. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:40:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2010/07/writing-prompt-20/ 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 ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2010/06/writing-prompt-19/ If you like first lines for prompts (I do!), check out the next two First Line contests here. 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.  ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2010/06/writing-prompt-18/ 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 ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2010/06/writing-prompt-17/ 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 ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2010/03/writing-prompt-16/ My first job out of college was as assistant to the director of public relations at a private college.  One of my responsibilities was to write press releases.  For the first few months, my boss would proofread everything I wrote before I submitted the work, but before I gave it ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2010/03/dr-sexier-or-why-not-to-rely-on-spell-check/ After a little hiatus, the weekly writing prompts are back. 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 ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2010/03/theyre-back-writing-prompt-15/ Throughout the month of November, the ORW prompts will be designed to help writers participating in NaNoWriMo build up their word count. Create a scene in which your character experiments with something new.  This scene should not necesarily be about learning a new skill.  Instead, imagine an activity in which your character ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2009/11/creative-writing-prompt-14-nanowrimo/ Throughout the month of November, the ORW prompts will be designed to help writers participating in NaNoWriMo build up their word count.  Please leave a comment about how the prompt works for you! Create a scene in which your character sees something s/he should not have.  Write 1,000 words describing the ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2009/11/creative-writing-prompt-13-nanowrimo/ 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 ... http://www.openroadwriting.com/2009/10/creative-writing-prompt-12/