How long will it take you to clean out your refrigerator on National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day? How many people will you tell to have a bad day on Have a Bad Day Day? Will you take advantage of Stay Home Because You’re Well Day and stay home from work? Have fun finding a peculiar…
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Fiction Writing, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
X-Ray Day and Other Unusual Holidays
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• •How many sandwiches will you eat on National Sandwich Day? Will you make a pizza on National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day? Will you have an x-ray taken on X-Ray Day? What will you make for dinner on Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day? A historical fiction novel could be written around the…
Fiction Writing, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
I Love to Write Day & Other Offbeat Holidays
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• •Collective Nouns, Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Writing Prompts and Exercises
A Tangle of Gorgons
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• •Collective Nouns, Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Writing Prompts and Exercises
A Vexation of Zombies
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• •Have you ever dreamed that a liberty of mummies chased you through a museum? Has a prominence of dhampirs ever saved you from the a basement of vampires? Are you afraid your town will be invaded by a vexation of zombies? Mummies, golems, dhampirs, revenants, skeletons, vampires, wendigoes, and zombies are creatures of the night…
Halloween Articles, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Holidays Associated with Halloween
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• •Will you dress up like Frankenstein on Frankenstein Friday? Are you brave enough to clean your refrigerator on Haunted Refrigerator Night? How many caramel apples will you eat on National Caramel Apple Day? Will you drive people crazy with your knock-knock jokes on National Knock-Knock Jokes Day? One of your characters could start a new…
Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Haunted Libraries in the U.S.A.
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• •Does the ghost of a librarian that just couldn’t bear to be parted from her books frequent the library in your hometown? Does she reside there peacefully unless disturbed? Does she react like the ghost librarian from Ghostbusters if you try to talk to her? Or is she more like the ghost librarian at the…
Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Phobias, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Phobias Associated with Halloween
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• •For Halloween, authors take advantage of things that scare people. Some write stories that will keep you awake at night; others write stories that scare you for the moment. Any phobia would be appropriate in a Halloween story, but the following ones are more closely associated with this spooky time of year. Write your own…