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5 More Blogs to Follow For Writing Help

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5 More Blogs to Follow For Writing Help
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Last weeks writing help article was surprisingly successful. I managed to get four whole likes on the link I shared.

With that sweet success in mind, I decided to share five more writing blogs that offer good prompts, writing advice, motivation/encouragement and opportunities. Like last time, these blogs are mostly directed at writers who are interested in writing fiction, but the advice is often universal and can be adjusted accordingly. Here it goes!

1. Suddenly; Prompts!

Suddenly; Prompts describes their prompts as bite-sized, and this is accurate. They're usually quote- or dialogue-based, and they're rarely longer than a sentence. The blog posts these quick prompts three times a day. At the moment, the blog is not currently accepting messages, because its inbox is full. However, the blog usually accepts messages, asking for certain prompts and advice. The blog also allows followers to submit their own prompts and offers a random prompt function. Finally, it offers a link to a second blog where writers can submit the stories they've written based on the prompts.

2. Writer's Yoga

Writer's Yoga works around the theme of...themes. Every week, the blog posts a different theme and then prompts based around that theme. The prompts are usually very broad, consisting of either a single word or a series of images. The blog updates multiple times a day and accepts messages from followers.

I don't care for this blog's prompts. I personally find them too broad. However, this blog does writing advice like a champ, and it has an extensive and meticulously organized tag system. It's on a separate page, and it splits posts into several categories including: General Writing (advice/instruction for worldbuilding, character-development, etc.), Research (everything from medieval history to the effects and treatment of gunshot wounds), Reading (book recommendations), Post Types, Publication (links to publishing/job opportunities, advice for writing query letters, etc.), Motivation (advice/encouragement), Misc. and Custom Tags.

3. OTP Prompts

An "OTP" is an acronym that stands for "One True Pairing," and a one true pairing usually refers to a favorite relationship between two characters in a book/show/movie/etc. For example, in the new Ghostbusters, I ship the hell out of Erin and Holtzmann.

Because, let's be real, if a man danced for a woman like this...

...it would be considered flirting, plain and simple.

But I digress.

OTP Prompts is a blog that deals strictly in prompts of varying lengths. They're usually not more than a few sentences, but some prompts can get pretty intricate. Most of the prompts focus on the interactions between two characters (i.e. Character A meets Character B in a bar). However, there are plenty of exceptions. Many prompts are labeled "platonic." There are also several prompts that describe polyamorous situations. The prompts also come in a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, action, etc.

Finally, the blog runs mostly on the submissions of its followers, accepts messages, updates several times a day and promotes stories based on their prompts.

4. Monthly Writing Challenge

Monthly Writing Challenge is similar to Writer's Yoga in that it works with themed prompts. However, I believe that Monthly Writing Challenge does it better. The blog offers a monthly theme or challenge and then posts several prompts every week based around it. Past themes include: first line (the post must be used as the first line of a story), three words (the words in the post must be used somewhere in the story), or images. The blog offers a link to past challenges and their prompts. It also reblogs writing advice, accepts messages asking for advice and accepts submissions of writing based on the challenges.

5. The Writing Realm

The Writing Realm doesn't seem to do much in the way of its own prompts. However, it reblogs some of the best prompt lists and really good writing advice. It posts roughly once a week, and finally, it also has a perfectly respectable tag system.

The tag system includes: Writing (technical and conventions), Inspiration (Prompts and motivation/encouragement), Music inspiration (help set the mood for writing), Plot (advice about pacing, subplots, plot holes etc.), Writing Guides (Research about wounds, time periods, etc.), Writing Elements, Editing, Books, Worldbuilding and Setting.

I hope everybody finds these helpful, and once again, y'all little writers go have fun now.


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