Friday, August 29, 2014

Story Starter - Week Five


This week's Story Starter is a picture. Write a story or poem inspired by the picture below.

As always, I would love to read what you write, so please copy and paste what you've written into the comments, if you feel like doing so.

art by Robert Fyfe

Friday, August 22, 2014

Story Starters - Week Four


 This week's Story Starter is a two-sentence beginning to a story, which can be found below.

The mirror in front of me shimmered and blurred, and in the glass, I could see a different room. I reached my hand out to the surface of the mirror and my hand went right through it.

As always, I would love to read the short story you write based on these lines, so feel free to share your story in the comments below.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Story Starter - Week Three


This week's Story Starter is a picture. Write a story or poem inspired by the picture below.

As always, I would love to read what you write, so please copy and paste what you've written into the comments, if you feel like doing so.


by Robert Fyfe

Friday, August 8, 2014

Story Starter - Week Two


This week's story starter is a choice between two pictures. You may write a story or poem inspired by either one. 

I would love to read what you write from this week's Story Starter in the comments, so feel free to paste into the comments!

by Robert Fyfe
by Rebecca Fyfe

Story Starter - Week One


Today marks the first Story Starter post. Story Starters will be posted on Friday every week and will either contain photos or a first sentence, or even a first paragraph, to help inspire new stories. The point of the Story Starters is to get you writing. If you haven't written anything all week, use the story starters to make sure you write something every week. The best way to become a proficient story-teller is to write as many stories as you are able to write. The more you write, the better your writing will become.

With a photo or drawing, you are to look at the picture and see what ideas it inspires in you; then write your story. The same goes for the Story Starters that give you a sentence or a paragraph to start you off. With a paragraph, you are to use it to start your story, but with a sentence, you are to use it either to start your story or to add it in anywhere in the story.

This week's Story Starter is a sentence:

While everyone else was busy arguing about the accident, Shane's gaze was riveted on the dark bulge that slithered in and out of view under the injured victim's skin.

(Feel free to add your stories in the comments below.)