Check out Ash's channel over @agingerwrites and her version of the experiment here: ruclips.net/video/CvuESbnS6yg/видео.html (ALSO OH LOOK I HAVE THE ACTUAL VLOG UP NOW and not just my live chat with Ash bahahaha. MY BAD, Y'ALL!)
we´ve mostly done prompts in english class in high school. I always struggled a bit with getting going, and maybe it was because of the added difficulty of it being foreign language, but I remember several times having to read my work to the class and being decided as the "best". Once my teacher wrote on the bottom that he loves my writing style and I should never stop writing and I think about that every time writing gets hard
Prompts are an excellent tool to not only strengthen writing skills, but to also stretch and broaden one's imagination and to branch out of one's comfort zone. Over the course of my writing career, I've written thousands of prompt practices. Looking back and rereading them is like viewing a snapshot of my skill level and comfort zone during that particular time in my life and authorship journey. While I've been mostly out of the game for a few years now, focusing my energy on my toddler and moving to a different state, I've recently begun feeling the itch to get back into daily prompts. They'd be an excellent, obligation-free way to rehone some skills that may be dulling due to lack of regular writing sessions.
I do a daily writing prompt, and I am part of a writing prompt group that meets on Sundays. I tend to use magazine articles as sources for the daily prompts. It is a way to get me to read more magazines (The Economist, Cosmopolitan, New Scientist, etc.) rather than just reading short stories, comic books and novels. For the Sunday Writing Group, each member of the group supplies a prompt and we combine the prompts to write our own stories. Because the prompts tend not to be connected thematically (since they are chosen in the moment by each member), it makes the writing exercise challenging. We try to make the prompts work together logically and cohesively in the narratives we write. I am trying to use prompts as not just warm up exercises for writing, but to continue WIPs. Thanks a lot for sharing how you are using prompts, Kate. 🙂
I love how we both used our dice for the prompts. I need more reasons to use my dice especially that d100 since I don't usually need it in game. My DM does ask us questions at the start of each session from a list of 100 questions (they are questions about your character, but it is so fun and such a neat way to get to know the party). That's about the only time I use it lol. I've also used the dice in the past to make decisions in my manuscript and for my D&D story, I set up actual combat scenarios and rolled dice for my chararcter's characters (so yes I made character sheets for my character's characters).
So relatable! I have young kids as well and I’m always gambling in the mornings with whether or not they will also get up 😂 but then by 730 at night I’m done so I can’t count on late nights either. The struggle is real haha
We’re reading the same book right now! To answer the actual question though I use prompts all the time! Mostly for fan fiction but my friends and I would also pick prompt lists to write brief pieces of fiction that we’d read at our monthly girls nights! It captured the feeling of writing stories and swapping them in high school and I loved it
i LOVE prompts like the one that was given to you. i like having other people give me random words, or pulling some off a generator. it's a fun game of how quickly can i get these in while still making sense, and it gets me writing more than i realize!
Yessss! It's so funny, because when I think of writing prompts I don't often think of the "use x, y, and z, GO," but they've been some of my favorites I've ever done! There's so much flexibility and creativity in seeing what you come up with. Actually I'd love to try that as a challenge and see just how short I can make it while still making sense! You've inspired me bahah.
So much fun to find a new Vlog!!! I still wake up at 5:30 but it's the Shelties asking for breakfast. When Darby was alive, I got up at that hour. But now, the shelties and Winnie are happy to go back to bed for a couple of hours. And that works for me too! Sorry I missed the Patreon streams. The one day I ran errands outside the house!!! (so I didn't see your email until the next day after the streams were finished, lol. ) Have a great day! Hugs and love!
I am so excited to hear your thoughts on the Artist’s Way. I read it/attempted to go through it for the first time when I was 18-19, and while I think there’s a lot I don’t love, I also know doing the pages and the artist dates does help me when I’m in a rut, and when I was 18 and hurting, it was really helpful.
All writers do different things at different stages of the writing process, so just do it when you feel up to it, Zero -draft is always garbage but we need it to get started to find the story in later drafts etc... Some days are very productive and others much slower, it's all part of the game to get a story done. There is variation in everything connected to writing, the time we work, the modes we juggle, never ending variation., that is the key term here. The hardest part is organizing all the ideas and scenes that takes forever in many ways.
During the plague, I'm wrote a short story collection that the first story was off a prompt. I also did a contest that gave you the first and last paragraphs and you had to fill in 11 paragraphs in between. They were fun.
Last time I used a writing prompt...probably last year 😅....I don't use them often I almost ALWAYS get all my ideas for novels..right..before...I'm going...to sleep. 😑
I do morning pages, too (not nearly as early as you did them lol), but I call them writing doodles and usually use a photo or illustration that interests me. I feel like it's a great way to kind of warm up my writing muscles and I even have some doodles that I really want to turn into full stories, so that's a fun bonus
I wonder if something like this would be good for me. I have soooo many ideas and they just live in a plot bunny scrivener project. It might be good to get some out via shorts...or it might make the plot bunny menagerie grow exponentially.
I'm currently making a Neil Gaiman Masterclass video. I have also been writing by hand or on typewriter for new works in progress this year. Not that I have been writing much. But I don't like my current journal so I have been using loose leaf paper more then my journal.
I used to get up SO early, but now my youngest wakes even earlier and if she sees me up before 6am she puts her hands on her hips and demands that I go back to bed and get some more sleep! Which is very sweet. She knows I have chronic fatigue and has decided that I need more rest. She's probably right. I haven't done prompts in AGES, so this seems kind of fun to me, though I feel like my time is so limited already that it would mean I get less of the other things done that I need to.
just another comment on wanting to hear your thoughts on the artist's way (1:10). i finally started reading it after having it recommended to me for 1000 years and it's definitely different
I've been using my D&D dice for writing and character creation. Where has D&D been all my life and why wasn't it taught in school (like an extra class or something)?! 😂
OMG YES. I'm almost mad I hadn't tried D&D before the past couple years bahaha. I actually need to find more people to play with! (And pretty, sparkly dice? Yes, please.) It's such great inspiration for stories and world-building.
@@KateCavanaugh my best friend got me obsessed with a series called Critical Role and the DM is amazing at describing things! I've been binging it like a podcast. It really helps that all the players are professional voice actors.
I'd heard of (and watched a little) Critical Role BEFORE I got into D&D, but I think I'd have a much greater appreciation for it now! I should return and check it out again, thanks for the reminder!! :)
BAHAHAHA. When I tell you that I saw the email from Ash being like "I think you might have put the wrong video up," I RAN to my computer. So upset bahaha. But glad the actual vlog is up now. 🤡😂
Check out Ash's channel over @agingerwrites and her version of the experiment here: ruclips.net/video/CvuESbnS6yg/видео.html
(ALSO OH LOOK I HAVE THE ACTUAL VLOG UP NOW and not just my live chat with Ash bahahaha. MY BAD, Y'ALL!)
As a mom, I relate so hard to Ash’s struggle. Inevitably when I decide to make this change my kids also think it’s time to party too 😂
we´ve mostly done prompts in english class in high school. I always struggled a bit with getting going, and maybe it was because of the added difficulty of it being foreign language, but I remember several times having to read my work to the class and being decided as the "best". Once my teacher wrote on the bottom that he loves my writing style and I should never stop writing and I think about that every time writing gets hard
Prompts are an excellent tool to not only strengthen writing skills, but to also stretch and broaden one's imagination and to branch out of one's comfort zone.
Over the course of my writing career, I've written thousands of prompt practices. Looking back and rereading them is like viewing a snapshot of my skill level and comfort zone during that particular time in my life and authorship journey.
While I've been mostly out of the game for a few years now, focusing my energy on my toddler and moving to a different state, I've recently begun feeling the itch to get back into daily prompts. They'd be an excellent, obligation-free way to rehone some skills that may be dulling due to lack of regular writing sessions.
I do a daily writing prompt, and I am part of a writing prompt group that meets on Sundays. I tend to use magazine articles as sources for the daily prompts. It is a way to get me to read more magazines (The Economist, Cosmopolitan, New Scientist, etc.) rather than just reading short stories, comic books and novels. For the Sunday Writing Group, each member of the group supplies a prompt and we combine the prompts to write our own stories. Because the prompts tend not to be connected thematically (since they are chosen in the moment by each member), it makes the writing exercise challenging. We try to make the prompts work together logically and cohesively in the narratives we write. I am trying to use prompts as not just warm up exercises for writing, but to continue WIPs. Thanks a lot for sharing how you are using prompts, Kate. 🙂
I love how we both used our dice for the prompts. I need more reasons to use my dice especially that d100 since I don't usually need it in game. My DM does ask us questions at the start of each session from a list of 100 questions (they are questions about your character, but it is so fun and such a neat way to get to know the party). That's about the only time I use it lol. I've also used the dice in the past to make decisions in my manuscript and for my D&D story, I set up actual combat scenarios and rolled dice for my chararcter's characters (so yes I made character sheets for my character's characters).
I’m definitely a later evening person!
So relatable! I have young kids as well and I’m always gambling in the mornings with whether or not they will also get up 😂 but then by 730 at night I’m done so I can’t count on late nights either. The struggle is real haha
@@DarrianChamblee The struggle is so real 😭😭 I am debating pushing bedtime up a half hour, but I also don't know if that will help or not 😂
@@EmmaBennetAuthor my husband is a night owl. I used to be 😂
I would love to hear your thought/opinions on The Artist's Way.
We’re reading the same book right now!
To answer the actual question though I use prompts all the time! Mostly for fan fiction but my friends and I would also pick prompt lists to write brief pieces of fiction that we’d read at our monthly girls nights! It captured the feeling of writing stories and swapping them in high school and I loved it
i LOVE prompts like the one that was given to you. i like having other people give me random words, or pulling some off a generator. it's a fun game of how quickly can i get these in while still making sense, and it gets me writing more than i realize!
Yessss! It's so funny, because when I think of writing prompts I don't often think of the "use x, y, and z, GO," but they've been some of my favorites I've ever done! There's so much flexibility and creativity in seeing what you come up with.
Actually I'd love to try that as a challenge and see just how short I can make it while still making sense! You've inspired me bahah.
@@KateCavanaugh it's so much fun! i think my record is 5 prompt words in 97 words (envy, tale, order, fill, device).
So much fun to find a new Vlog!!! I still wake up at 5:30 but it's the Shelties asking for breakfast. When Darby was alive, I got up at that hour. But now, the shelties and Winnie are happy to go back to bed for a couple of hours. And that works for me too! Sorry I missed the Patreon streams. The one day I ran errands outside the house!!! (so I didn't see your email until the next day after the streams were finished, lol. ) Have a great day! Hugs and love!
I am so excited to hear your thoughts on the Artist’s Way. I read it/attempted to go through it for the first time when I was 18-19, and while I think there’s a lot I don’t love, I also know doing the pages and the artist dates does help me when I’m in a rut, and when I was 18 and hurting, it was really helpful.
All writers do different things at different stages of the writing process, so just do it when you feel up to it, Zero -draft is always garbage but we need it to get started to find the story in later drafts etc... Some days are very productive and others much slower, it's all part of the game to get a story done. There is variation in everything connected to writing, the time we work, the modes we juggle, never ending variation., that is the key term here. The hardest part is organizing all the ideas and scenes that takes forever in many ways.
this sounds like fun! i've been wanting to get into writing prompts recently
During the plague, I'm wrote a short story collection that the first story was off a prompt. I also did a contest that gave you the first and last paragraphs and you had to fill in 11 paragraphs in between. They were fun.
Last time I used a writing prompt...probably last year 😅....I don't use them often I almost ALWAYS get all my ideas for novels..right..before...I'm going...to sleep. 😑
I LOVE the clock! Where did you get it? or Did you make it yourself?
I use writing prompts every week. 😉🤣 Excited for more people to test and explore their writing skills.
love the video, as always :). You always manage to get me out of a writing slump! Lots of love
I do morning pages, too (not nearly as early as you did them lol), but I call them writing doodles and usually use a photo or illustration that interests me. I feel like it's a great way to kind of warm up my writing muscles and I even have some doodles that I really want to turn into full stories, so that's a fun bonus
Any challenge that starts with "get up at 5am" is an instant nope to me 😂
I love it when tabletop influences writing decisions xD
RIGHT
I could never do the 5am thing...no thanks! Haha Also, I love using Vocal for prompts from their writing challenges. :)
OOoh, I'll have to check out Vocal! And AGREED. This might be my last early morning challenge, I think I'm done bahahah.
hey kate! are you going to do a 24 hour writing thing this year?
I wonder if something like this would be good for me. I have soooo many ideas and they just live in a plot bunny scrivener project. It might be good to get some out via shorts...or it might make the plot bunny menagerie grow exponentially.
Are you thinking of publishing or at least a querying, pitching anything this year? I am dying to read your work. It hurts haha
Oh, what are your thoughts and feelings on The Artist's Way? I just started reading it
I'm curious about this too, @Kate! I've done it before, and I was thinking about doing it again. I wonder what your hesitations are with the method.
I have done a short story month using pep ale cards as the prompts
I'm currently making a Neil Gaiman Masterclass video. I have also been writing by hand or on typewriter for new works in progress this year. Not that I have been writing much. But I don't like my current journal so I have been using loose leaf paper more then my journal.
I used to get up SO early, but now my youngest wakes even earlier and if she sees me up before 6am she puts her hands on her hips and demands that I go back to bed and get some more sleep! Which is very sweet. She knows I have chronic fatigue and has decided that I need more rest. She's probably right.
I haven't done prompts in AGES, so this seems kind of fun to me, though I feel like my time is so limited already that it would mean I get less of the other things done that I need to.
I read: aging er writes, and I thought who's Er and why is he aging? :P :D
just saying i’m curious about your hot takes on the artists’ way 👀
just another comment on wanting to hear your thoughts on the artist's way (1:10). i finally started reading it after having it recommended to me for 1000 years and it's definitely different
I've been using my D&D dice for writing and character creation. Where has D&D been all my life and why wasn't it taught in school (like an extra class or something)?! 😂
OMG YES. I'm almost mad I hadn't tried D&D before the past couple years bahaha. I actually need to find more people to play with! (And pretty, sparkly dice? Yes, please.) It's such great inspiration for stories and world-building.
@@KateCavanaugh my best friend got me obsessed with a series called Critical Role and the DM is amazing at describing things! I've been binging it like a podcast. It really helps that all the players are professional voice actors.
I'd heard of (and watched a little) Critical Role BEFORE I got into D&D, but I think I'd have a much greater appreciation for it now! I should return and check it out again, thanks for the reminder!! :)
Where did you get your dice?
Have you ever published a book before?
First but only bc of reupload bahaha
BAHAHAHA. When I tell you that I saw the email from Ash being like "I think you might have put the wrong video up," I RAN to my computer. So upset bahaha.
But glad the actual vlog is up now. 🤡😂