Creating Writing Prompts & Exercises - Your Recipe For Mouth Watering Creative Writing

Have you found lately your writing has become a little predictable and samey? Rather than serve up scrumptious sentences and mouth watering metaphors, you've somehow slumped into a writing diet about as appealing as stale bread and water.

There is a way out though, techniques you can use to restore your writing to fabulous feasts fit for a king, rather than the day before yesterday's reheated leftovers.

Creative writing prompts and exercises are fantastic tools to help your writing evolve into new levels, and give it the sparkle and freshness it's recently lost.

Good writing exercises and prompts are a lot like good recipes. Simple, easy to follow, and most importantly, they produce delicious results far greater than the sum of their ingredients.

So why don't writers such as you and I use prompts and exercises more often?

The most common concern is that they are somehow a shortcut, a cheat. You feel as a writer you should be able to produce every last word and syllable yourself, not borrow them from others.

Let's look at the recipe analogy again. Do you need to produce every ingredient in the recipe yourself for it to be a tasty meal? No. Do you have to be the greatest chef in the world with a top team working for you in the most lavishly equipped kitchen imaginable? No.

With writing prompts and exercises, once you're over that first hurdle, you actually realise that the more you use them, the less strictly you need to follow them.

The wider range you use, the more techniques you absorb into your writing arsenal.

In the same way as when you've followed a recipe a few times and prepared delicious meals, you start to add your own little tweaks and flourishes and really make it your own, you can apply this same theory using writing prompts and exercises.

Then, instead of reaching for a new prompt when you get a little stuck with your writing, one you've used before pops into your head. "I know, I'll try that Random Objects exercise. But instead of picking two objects, I'll pick one object, two people and a location..."

Your creativity is brought to the fore not only in the writing itself, but also in the way you come up with ways to write.

The more you use them, the easier it becomes.

In a matter of weeks you can take your writing to new levels, and never fear being stuck for ideas or inspiration again. Now that is mouth watering prospect.

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