Creative writing practices: (Tried and new)
Bibliomancy: Open a book to a random page and point to a random sentence or paragraph. It is a great exercise to make your mind think more scenarios and ideas and use that as a starting point or inspiration for your writing.
Writing in Reverse: Write your story in reverse order, starting with the resolution and ending with the opening scene. Writing robbery in reverse or maybe a romance idea? This can lead to a unique narrative structure.
Incorporate the Senses: Focus on sensory details in your writing. Describe how things smell, taste, feel, sound, and look. Engaging the senses can make your writing more vivid and immersive.
Epistolary Writing: Tell your story through a series of letters, diary entries, emails, or other documents. I love writing letters and tell things in a very personalised way. This format can offer insight into your characters' inner thoughts and feelings.
Literary Pilgrimage: Visit places that have inspired famous authors or settings from your favorite books. This gives us such an immersive idea to see how different writers chose to study the tradition of writing as a practice. The physical experience can provide new perspectives and ideas for your own writing.
Writing Challenges: Participate in writing challenges and contests, such as NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), where you aim to write a novel in a month. These challenges can motivate you to stay committed to your writing goals.
Automatic Writing: Sit down with a blank page and write whatever comes to mind without any specific goal or structure. This can help you access your subconscious and tap into raw creativity.
Character Interviews: Conduct interviews with your characters as if they were real people. Ask them questions about their backgrounds, motivations, and experiences to deepen your understanding of them.
Story Cubes: Use story cubes or dice with images on them to randomly generate story ideas or plot twists. Roll the dice and see how you can incorporate the images into your narrative.
Narrative Nonlinearities: Experiment with nonlinear storytelling by jumping back and forth in time or alternating between multiple storylines. This can create intrigue and complexity in your narrative.
Word Association: Start with a single word or phrase and let your mind wander, making associations and connections. This can lead to unexpected and creative story ideas.
Role Reversal: Rewrite a scene or story from the perspective of a different character. This can provide fresh insights into their motivations and emotions.
These are some crazy ideas that have helped me make up my mind and create prompts and proses that have been so beautiful panned out. If you get a change to try some, do comment.