Writing Journal—Thursday writing prompt

Your wild and rebellious character has been forced to spend his summer with his elderly aunt and uncle on their farm. Seeking an escape from the laundry list of chores that fill each waking hour, he hides out in the locked-up barn the one place he’s forbidden to go. What he finds inside fills him with terror. 

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Guidance & Tips

Write the scene of discovery (i.e., tell a story), or brainstorm and create a list of related ideas.

Here’s five story elements to consider:

  • Character
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Conflict
  • Resolution

Never forget, writing is a process. The first draft is always a mess.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway
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Author: Richard L. Fricks

Richard L. Fricks is a novelist and Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Editor living near Boaz, Alabama. His fiction explores ordinary people caught in difficult human questions, and he works with a small number of beginning novelists through a year-long, in-person writing program.

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