Cards from the Basket

The 307 prompts in Cards from the Basket are intended for anyone who writes or has been planning to write or wants to write more. They’re a jump-start for your writing process, a bit of kindling for the fire of your imagination, and they’re one route out of writer’s block. Teachers can use Cards from the Basket with their students, and students can use them with each other. Take them to your writing group for anyone who needs a little motivation. In other words, Cards from the Basket is a useful tool to keep in your writer’s box of tricks. These prompts work for any kind of imaginative writing — poetry, short fiction, long fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, even memoir. You can use them as a gateway to dialogue, plot, imagery, characterization, and memory. Include them verbatim or never refer to them at all. Make them the grain of sand in the pearl you’re polishing. Whatever you’re writing, they can help you “prime the pump” and start getting words on paper — something, anything — as a pathway to your subject. I promise you: that is a thing that happens to writers, and I urge you to trust it as a technique. — from the Introduction

By Wendell Ricketts

$14.95| ISBN-13: 979-8-9879671-2-6 | 5.06” x 7.81” | 327 pages

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