Finding Your Inner Awesome As a Writer

Have you found your inner awesome, or are you still searching for it? One way to find it is to keep doing writing exercises. I've shared the photo prompt exercise with you and the freewrite exercise on several posts. I've given you lists of questions to use to trigger your memories to use as an exercise. We've done the "I remember..."

Friday, I reviewed Marlene Cullen's latest book meant to help beginning and intermediate writers through the use of prompts. Marlene uses them regularly. Check out some of her prompts here. 

If you're a writer who has a hard time coming up with new topics, writing prompts could be of great help. 

Here is a list to get you started on a new writing project:

• write about a dream you had.
• write about the worst teacher you had.
• write about a favorite dish your mother mad.
• write about your best friend in grade school.
• write about the person you avoided in school.
• write about your sixteenth birthday.
• write about your most memorable Christmas.
• write about your cousins.
• write about the best house you ever lived in.
• write about your favorite pet.
• write about the chore you hated the most.
• write about your favorite books.
• write about your wedding.

I could go on and on, but you should be able to find something that lets your fingers tap the keyboard. When you use one of the prompts, don't write a report...this happened, then that happened, then... Instead, write giving a sense of place, some emotion, description, sensory details, and active verbs. 

Do the above and you may find your inner awesome flashing like a neon sign.