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Prompt / Word-Bank Pack

A working stock of prompts and words for the days the page will not start.

Buy for $12

What it is

A pack of writing prompts and curated word banks for breaking a blank page open: pick a prompt, raid the banks for vivid and specific words, and get a draft moving instead of staring.

What is in the download

  • word-banks/: one Markdown file per word bank on this site, every word on its own line.
  • prompts.md: every writing prompt, organised by genre, plus plot twists, column ideas and common writing challenges with a way through each.
  • word-usage-reference.md: show-don't-tell pairs and word usage lists, each word with an example sentence.
  • README.md: how to use the pack.

Every file in the download (68 files, 205 KB)

  • prompts.md21 KB
  • README.md2 KB
  • word-usage-reference.md82 KB
  • word-banks/ (65 files)100 KB

A look inside

# Descriptive Words List: 500+ Vivid Adjectives and Adverbs

## The words (539)

- Affable
- Altruistic
- Amicable
- Benevolent
- Charitable
- Compassionate
- Empathetic
- Gracious
- Magnanimous
- Thoughtful
- Assertive
- Courageous
...

The first 12 words of word-banks/descriptive-words-list.md, as on the day this page was built.

The Cartographer's Debt. A mapmaker discovers that every road she draws becomes real overnight, and someone has started leaving orders on her doorstep. Write the morning she draws a road she was warned never to draw.

The Last Name. In a kingdom where speaking a person's true name gives you power over them, your character is the only one alive who has forgotten their own. Open with the moment they need it most.

Borrowed Light. Magic in your world runs on borrowed memories, and the spell your character is about to cast will cost them the day they met the person they love. Write them deciding.

Three prompts from prompts.md.

Who it is for

Writers who warm up with prompts, teachers who need a term's worth of starters, and anyone whose drafting stalls at the first sentence.

Who should not buy it

If you never stall at a blank page, you do not need this. The free Writer's Word Bank you get for joining the newsletter may also be enough on its own; start there.

Delivery. You get a download link by email within a minute of purchase. The link works for 72 hours, and if it expires you can reply to the email for a fresh one. The download is a zip file (prompt-word-bank-pack-v1.0.zip).

Refunds. If it is not what you needed, reply to your receipt email and you will get a refund. No questions asked.

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