http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/Here are several prompts for the writer who finds themself victim to bordem or writer's block or for the writer who just wants a new idea...My suggestion is that you try them naked while standing on your head - its very freeing and silly and meditative all at once...you think I'm joking but I can assure you I'm not...If you're too chicken to do it though, these prompts work just as well sitting upright with your clothes on. Please comment and tell me if these prompts did, or didn't help you (and whether or not you were naked and on your head). ENJOY!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/174975Make your main character/protagonist a female. The event or situation in your story is getting fired. An archetype present in your story is The Golden Child. A key object or symbol in your story is a spider's web. Set your story in an art gallery. Make your story about sadness. Or Make your main...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/167719Write about a recent dream, using the viewpoint of the objective author. Without any comment or interpretation whatsoever, report the events (the more bizarre, the better) as they occur.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/166877Explore the Seven Deadly Sins in seven brief sketches. You may want to freewrite or cluster first. For a personal essay, write about times in which you committed each of the sins. For fiction, write scenes or create situations in which each of the sins is involved. One rule: don't mention the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/164463Write about "longing" by comparing it to a place. What place seems to embody longing or to evoke it? What does longing look like? Now that you have a setting, write about the physical sensations of longing. What does it literally feel like? Give these sensations to a character, adding movement to...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/164054Write an ending for an unwritten piece. In other words, write the ending first. A number of writers do this on a regular basis, using the ending as a destination to guide the writing of the piece. Katherine Anne Porter, for example, used this approach: "If I didn't know the ending of the story, I...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/161477Go to a public place and eavesdrop. That's right: Invade people's privacy. Of course, don't get caught. But if you feel comfortable with this, try to overhear some conversations. Write down what you hear. Try to record it exactly as it's said. Restaurants are a great place to do this. You can be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/161114Write a scene in which a character lies to another character. Then write a second scene in which another lie must be told to cover up for the first one. Continue in this way, weaving a tangled web for your character.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/158169Mine the rich ore of your sexual fantasies. Write about your favorites, the ones you depend on when you're dead tired and your partner is desperately in the mood.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/158040Here's a fun little exercise to do when you're stumped on poetry. Make a list of adjectives that you like, really deep, exciting, or moving words. Then make a separate list of nouns, random objects, it doesn't matter. Now, pair up one adjective and one noun, use it as a title and start a poem...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/shlay5598/156968Describe the nature and feeling of love to someone who has never had the experience - a young person, perhaps, or someone who simply has never been smitten. What insights and advice can you offer?