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Right-Brained Strategy #1...Serendipity Prompts!
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WritingFix's Serendipitous Word Games will make you laugh, and if you keep clicking those buttons long enough, an idea for great writing will eventually jump at you.
"I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them."
--Jay W. Lorsch, Harvard Business School |
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Right-Brained Strategy #2...Story-Starters!
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WritingFix's Story Starters allow you to keep clicking those buttons until the perfect end of that blank white page is achieved.
"Once I've finally started my story, it just kind of goes. Sometimes it's really hard to start it though."
--Allan S., 6th grade WritingFix user |
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Right-Brained Strategy #3...Great Sentence Creators!
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WritingFix's Great Sentence Creators somehow always create interesting sentences to build a piece of writing around...no matter how many times a writer clicks the button. The trick is to know when to stop clicking and start writing. Use the created sentence as your story's first or last sentence...or hide it in your story and see if a friend can find it when the story is done.
"All it usually takes to get me writing is one really good sentence."
--Mandy H., 10th grade WritingFix user
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Right-Brained Strategy #4...Eight Who/What/Where/When Games!
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Invented by collaborating teachers at an inservice class, the Who/What/When/Where Games experiment with both adverbs and sentence fluency techniques. Move the whens and wheres until the sentence sounds pretty much perfect. Then use your perfect sentence as your story's first or last sentence...or hide it in your story and see if a friend can find it when the story is done.
"Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two."
--Larry McMurty, screenwriter and essayist
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Right-Brained Strategy #5...Four Right-Brained Poetry Prompts!
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Great prose is improved with the occasional poetic device slipped inside. All writers should try a little poetry every once in a while...no matter what they're writing.
"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
--Ishmael Reed, author
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Right-Brained Strategy #6...Five Alliterative ««Sparks«« for Writers!
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WritingFix's Alliterative Sparks have successfully inspired both poets and aspiring novelists. A little alliteration can lend itself nicely, eh Charles Churchill?
"Who often, but without success, have prayed For apt Alliteration’s artful aid."
--Charles Churchill, Poet
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Right-Brained Strategy #7...Two Visual Writing ««Sparks«« for Writers!
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WritingFix wants to build a collection of intriguing photographs that inspire writing. If you have a non-copyrighted digital photo that you'd like to let us post for others to be inspired, please send it to us a webmaster@writingfix.com. |
We are building more Visual Sparks for writers. Soon, we hope to house dozens of interactive prompts based on visual inspirations.
"Is a picture worth a thousand words or ten thousand?"
--Sara S., 5th grade WritingFix user
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Right-Brained Writing Prompts 
