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Another Neko Case literary writing prompt mashup. This time for your creative writing prompt, I mashed up Neko Case’s Porchlight with scenes from Pink Floyd the Wall.

After viewing the video begin writing.

Back by unpopular demand: a video prompt. Now, I’m calling them literary writing prompts. I’m expecting great things, people.

After viewing the video begin writing.

Never use an adverb to modify dialogue. Don’t use words like ejaculate and vociferate. Even better: Completely unmodified dialogue.

“Where are you?”
“I’m over here.
“What are you doing over there?”
“My God, I’m full of methane.”
“Why don’t you …

This video prompt gives you the chance to practice writing a few rungs lower on the evolutionary ladder.

After viewing the video begin writing.

How Do You Astrally Project to a Fiction Writer’s Conference?
Cotton Underwear is the Key.

In order to complete my being publishable check list, I had planned to attend the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s Fiction Writer’s Conference on Saturday, …

If I were to describe my writing style, I would probably classify it as speculative postmodern neo-minimalist metafiction. Followers of Unpublished Guy have already been treated to various samples of this enigmatic writing style if they followed my novel writing …

What might some of John Gardner’s Art of Fiction exercises looked like if he had a pathological obsession for Zen koans and parlour games?

4a. Describe a landscape as seen by an old woman whose disgusting and detestable old husband …