Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 7:04:12 GMT
In English they call them writing prompts : writing suggestions. In many blogs on creative writing in the Anglo-Saxon world, articles on writing prompts often appear , suggestions for stories to write. I've always wondered what use they had. These writing prompts are almost plots. In 3 or 4 lines or less they tell you what you will have to talk about in the story. For example (read in in blog): “You write about two people who grow up together, eventually grow apart, move to different parts of the country, and somehow end up unintentionally running into each other very often for the rest of their lives." Or (in the same blog): “Write about two people who dream about each other before actually meeting.”
And so on to get to 50 writing ideas! But in other articles it is exaggerated: 100, 180 and even 500 writing ideas! I've also had fun on the blog posting writing tips. But they weren't real ideas, in fact I called them "ways to invent stories": they were actually Special Data writing exercises and I suggested generic topics, literary genres, methods for reinventing stories already written, publishing house competitions, etc. You can find them together, along with other articles on the topic, on the Ideas for Writers page . How useful are creative writing prompts? Whoever publishes these suggestions, these outlines of plots, talks about overcoming the classic writer's block .
But that's not how you overcome writer's block . How can you hope to continue writing your own short story or novel, but instead write a story someone else suggested? Does a lack of creative ideas cause writer's block? So do you become writers with other people's ideas? It's as if someone had to suggest to a painter what to paint or a sculptor what to sculpt or a musician what to compose. Never heard of painting prompts or sculpting prompts . Yet the web also gives you those... absurd. We are at the death of art. But we were talking about the usefulness or otherwise of these miraculous creative writing ideas. They are useful? Yes, in my opinion they are useful for a child to improve their writing. After all, school essays also serve that purpose.
And so on to get to 50 writing ideas! But in other articles it is exaggerated: 100, 180 and even 500 writing ideas! I've also had fun on the blog posting writing tips. But they weren't real ideas, in fact I called them "ways to invent stories": they were actually Special Data writing exercises and I suggested generic topics, literary genres, methods for reinventing stories already written, publishing house competitions, etc. You can find them together, along with other articles on the topic, on the Ideas for Writers page . How useful are creative writing prompts? Whoever publishes these suggestions, these outlines of plots, talks about overcoming the classic writer's block .
But that's not how you overcome writer's block . How can you hope to continue writing your own short story or novel, but instead write a story someone else suggested? Does a lack of creative ideas cause writer's block? So do you become writers with other people's ideas? It's as if someone had to suggest to a painter what to paint or a sculptor what to sculpt or a musician what to compose. Never heard of painting prompts or sculpting prompts . Yet the web also gives you those... absurd. We are at the death of art. But we were talking about the usefulness or otherwise of these miraculous creative writing ideas. They are useful? Yes, in my opinion they are useful for a child to improve their writing. After all, school essays also serve that purpose.