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    • Creative Writing Ideas - 14 of 30

    • 2009-06-14 16:44:25 - comments() By Matt Fyffe

    • For day 14, I relied on another favorite author of mine to help me come up with my creative writing idea. This one is a very basic idea, but it uses Jeffrey Archer's stories as a muse, particularly Kane and Abel. In that story, two men grow up in different parts of the world but reach the point where their lives cross and they become fierce rivals.

      The writing idea I'd like to borrow fr...

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    • Creative Writing Ideas - 13 of 30

    • 2009-06-13 16:44:21 - comments() By Matt Fyffe

    • This creative writing idea is one that I really started to think of after reading John Irving's The World According To Garp. In that book, John Irving is telling the story of a man who is a writer, and so, actually includes pieces of the man's writing IN the book. It creates an interesting parallel in the book as you see how the writing was affected by the things going on in the man's life.

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    • Creative Writing Ideas - 12 of 30

    • 2009-06-12 23:24:27 - comments() By Matt Fyffe

    • Taking a twist on writing a biography, a creative writing idea that's always intrigued me is the fictionalized memoir. The best example that I can think of is Robertson Davies Fifth Business.

      The idea for this story would be to write your book as if you were writing a first person memoir. However, the catch here is that it's about a made-up character. The question becomes, if you could ...

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    • Creative Writing Ideas - 11 of 30

    • 2009-06-11 21:35:37 - comments() By Matt Fyffe

    • Lightening things up with a less controversial writing idea, I've always thought it would be neat to write a biography. However, not a bland factual biography that simply accounts for the facts and events in someone's life. Instead, I want to write a biography that tells the story of someone's life in a slightly fictionalized narrative.

      I thought this would be a great opportunity to mak...

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    • Creative Writing Ideas - 10 of 30

    • 2009-06-10 21:35:32 - comments() By Matt Fyffe

    • This creative writing idea goes or a bit of a darker twist. After the school shootings during the late 1990s at Columbine and what have you, I started thinking about why someone would possibly do such a thing. Yea, it's a difficult situation to try and find a writing prompt, but I believe it's one worth looking into.

      Using this base, I decided on the idea of writing a story from the per...

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