Writer Prompts
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MakeBeliefsComix.com creator Bill Zimmerman has made it his life's work to create books and materials that help people of all ages find their writer's voice and express their deepest thoughts and feelings. Many users of MakeBeliefsComix.com have asked for more help in their writing. In response, Bill now is regularly posting writing prompts at www.billztreasurechest.com/blog/ that get you thinking and writing. There, your written responses to the prompts can be posted, too, if you send them to him. Through the years writers of all ages and educators throughout the world have made use of his pioneering journaling techniques in communicating their ideas.
Here are some examples of writer prompts to be found:
- You are an author rewriting the story of your parents' lives. How would you change their lives, what would you say? The wonderful thing about being a writer is that you can use your imagination to create different worlds from what you know. If you're feeling unhappy in real life, for example, you might want to create a world in which you feel happy. If you are poor, you might want to imagine a story in which you are rich. You can change a story about your parents or family into something entirely different.
- Three children in different parts of the world wake up one morning, each expecting the day to be like all the others. For one, in Mexico, this will turn into the most important day of her life; for another, in China, the day will be the happiest she will ever experience in her life, and for the third, in Chicago, this will become his saddest one. Write one of the children's diaries for the day.
- You are a six-year-old Pakistani boy sold into servitude by his family to labor 14 hours a day in a carpet factory. Your enslavement will help settle a $16 family debt. You spend the next six years chained to a rug loom, working 12-hour days for pennies. Then comes the day when you escape to freedom -- here's what happens:
This new writer prompts blog is part of Bill's other web site — http://www.billztreasurechest.com — where excerpts from his books are found that also invite visitors to try the interactive prompts also featured there. Included are excerpts from his two Make Beliefs books from which the idea for MakeBeliefsComix.com evolved. The two books can be reviewed at: www.billztreasurechest.com/make_believe.html.
Bill also invites you to share your own writer prompts which have spurred your writing. If you give him your permission he will share them with users of the writer prompts blog and credit you or your source. You can contact Bill by email at: billz@makebeliefscomix.com. His hope is that by working together we can build a community of writers who share ideas and support one another.