- Write a piece of your character’s backstory.
- Describe a place your character hates.
- Write a piece of dialogue that includes a pun.
- Include music as an important scene device or memory.
- Describe a character’s fear.
- Work in a fandom reference of your choice.
- Use at least 3 colors in a scene.
- Write a stream of consciousness monologue.
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Simple Sunday- Nano quotes
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” -Orson Scott
“For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.… I think it’s very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don’t know where it’ll go.”
― Margaret Atwood
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“If you aren’t having fun, if you aren’t anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won’t be able to entertain anyone else, either.” – Tamora Pierce
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.” ― Neil Gaiman
Simple Sunday- Writing Quotes For Nano
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” – Beatrix Potter
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ― John Steinbeck
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
“My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug at my sleeve, crying, ‘Me next! Go on! My turn!’ I have to select. And once I have chosen, the others lie quiet for ten months or a year, until I come to the end of the story, and the clamor starts up again.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”― Terry Pratchett