![House Guests [writing prompt]](https://thewritepractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/House-Guests.jpg)
Write about house guests that you or your characters have had recently.
Write for fifteen minutes. When your time is up, post your practice in the comments section. And if you post, be sure to leave feedback on a few practices by other writers.
Happy writing!
How do you want a story to end? Should it have a fairy tale ending? A hopeful ending? Or do you like stories with more realistic endings—even if the protagonist doesn’t come out ahead and the villain doesn’t get his?
Several times a month, writers ask me, “How can I balance blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, Goodreading, and all the other stuff I’m supposed to do to build my platform, while also focusing on my writing? I have a full time job, a family, and a cat. I just don’t have time for all that other stuff.”
Writers today are overwhelmed, frustrated, and let’s be honest, a little pissed off. Why do we have to build a platform anyway? Can’t we just focus on writing?
![The Creativity of Children [writing prompt]](https://thewritepractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/creativity-children.jpg)
Spend fifteen minutes free writing about the creativity of children.
When you’ve finished, post it in the comments and comment on a few other practitioners’ pieces.
Yesterday, I quit the story I was working on. I tried to start something new but then hated the new idea and quit it, too.
I go through these periods every once in a while when I hate all my writing ideas. Even writing this post was hard. Every sentence I wrote, I hated. Has this ever happened to you? How do you handle it?
What do you do when you hate your writing?
