501 Character Prompts

Is your story suffering from prosaic protagonists and apathetic antagonists? You need some writing prompts to put the spark into those characters. 501 Writing Prompts to Help Bring Your Characters to Life, with Better Results than Dr. Frankenstein (Guaranteed) is bound, literally and figuratively, to give your characters meaningful inner (and outer) lives. 501 Writing Prompts to Help Bring Your Characters to Life's holistic approach to character development will inspire you through 501 (or more!) prompts, including 100 new visual prompts, many of which are in color. With ideas for your character's job (or lack thereof), idiosyncrasies, personal possessions, and appearance, you will find a new way of thinking about them. Whether you feel stuck fleshing out a character, totally blocked, or just want a new way of thinking about characters, the evocative prompts in this book are designed to let you into a character's world the way stories do: With evocative details that show you who they might be. If you never found the rigorous, outline-based "plotter" approach to writing useful, then this book is for you. Even if you did find it useful, this book is for you. This is especially true if someone has given you a copy. *Guarantee is rhetorical

"This eBook features 501 sample writing prompts that are designed to help you improve your writing and gain the necessary writing skills needed to ace essay exams. Build your essay-writing confidence fast with 501 Writing Prompts!" --

Never have writer's block again. 5,000 Writing Prompts is an essential resource for novelists, short story writers, screenwriters, poets, creative writing teachers, bloggers, memoir writers, improv actors, and other creators and storytellers. It includes... 150 plot ideas for each of these genres: fantasy, science fiction, mystery, romance, young adult, historical fiction, and general fiction hundreds of other master plots from classic fiction and mythology hundreds of dialogue, character, and setting prompts 100 poetry exercises hundreds of prompts for personal writing and journalling 500 blog post ideas ...and much more From the author of Master Lists for Writers, this comprehensive book is filled with inspiration. Let it spark your imagination and remind you that your creative possibilities are truly endless.

You've got a story in you. But how do you extract it? If you're having trouble getting started, if you're blocked, or if you're looking for a new idea to kickstart your creative engine, this book is for you. Combining verbal prompts, images, and advice for how to use them, this collection of high-quality, creative writing prompts moves from specific and structured prompts to more abstract ones. Whether you want a situation, a unique character, a snippet of dialogue, journal or memoir ideas, or a picture to get you started, this book is sure to help you spark your masterpiece.

The award-winning author of You Bring the Distant Near explores identity, homecoming, and the legacy of assault in this personal and ambitious new novel. Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she’s having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is reluctant to take on his future. If he can’t find his roots, how can he possibly plan ahead? Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places—a summer service trip to Kolkata to work with survivors of human trafficking. As bonds build between the travelmates, Robin and Kat discover that justice and healing are tangled, like the pain of their pasts and the hope for their futures. You can’t rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play. In turns heart wrenching, beautiful, and buoyant, Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You focuses its lens on the ripple effects of violence—across borders and generations—and how small acts of heroism can break the cycle. This title has Common Core connections.

Azemichi and Taiyo are One-Way Ticket to the Top, the final performers of the Wara-1 Koshien prelims! Between Azemichi’s carefully scripted comedy and Taiyo’s flawless acting, they’ve got the perfect routine to win over the crowd. But despite having started off with the biggest laughs of the day, Azemichi draws a blank halfway through their routine and forgets his next line! Unless Azemichi and Taiyo can save their performance, they may have just lost their only chance at making their comedy dreams come true... -- VIZ Media

Provides one thousand ideas to write about.

Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.