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    Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies: Over 100 Prompts to Get You in the Action
    Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies: Over 100 Prompts to Get You in the Action
    Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies: Over 100 Prompts to Get You in the Action
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    Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies: Over 100 Prompts to Get You in the Action

    By Toby Welch

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    Movies are full of intrigue, action, heartache, and corruption. What more could you ask for in a writing prompt! Inspired by movie plots, this book of over 100 prompts will fire up your creative juices and take your imagination to new heights. Write away!
    (These prompts are genderless – they are geared for men and women simultaneously.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherToby Welch
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781310550003
    Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies: Over 100 Prompts to Get You in the Action
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    Toby Welch

    After living in a dozen countries and earning an accounting degree, Toby Welch followed her dream of becoming a writer. Since penning an article in 2003 on travelling to Saudi Arabia, Toby has published over 290 articles in magazines and newspapers and another 400+ pieces online. She is addicted to the rush of creating e-books and has published 74 of them under her own name and a pseudonym. Toby finds inspiration in jazz music, impressionist artwork, and jars of Nutella.Check out the full range of her work on her website at tobywelch.ca

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      Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies - Toby Welch

      Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies: Over 100 Prompts to Get You in the Action

      by Toby A. Welch

      Copyright License Statement

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover art by Jiri Erben

      Writing Prompts Inspired By Movies

      Movies are full of intrigue, action, heartache, and corruption. What more could you ask for in a writing prompt! Inspired by movie plots, this book of over 100 prompts will fire up your creative juices and take your imagination to new heights. Write away!

      (These prompts are genderless – they are geared for men and women simultaneously.)

      Table of Contents:

      Action & Adventure

      Comedy

      Drama

      Horror

      Mystery & Thriller

      Romance

      Science Fiction

      List of Movies Cited

      Closing

      Action & Adventure

      You are a 25-year-old drug dealer. One of your clients owes you a great deal of money and isn’t taking your threats seriously. To show the client you are tired of him jerking you around, you kidnap the client’s teenaged brother. Despite the kidnapping, your client still isn’t paying up. What would you do with the teenager you are holding ransom in your living room? (Alpha Dog)

      You and your significant other are on a cross-country road trip. You are passing through a deserted part of the region when your vehicle breaks down. You have no cell-phone reception. When a trucker stops his rig and asks if you two would like a ride to the next town, your mate is hesitant to leave the vehicle alone and tells you to go with the trucker for help. What would you do? (Breakdown)

      You are in your mid-20s and are sailing the waters around Spain with your parents and two siblings. You take the yacht’s dingy into town for supplies and when you return to the offshore boat a few hours later, your entire family has disappeared. What would you do? (The Cold Light of Day)

      When you were eight-years-old, you watched your parents get murdered in your kitchen. You fled to your uncle’s home. He took you in and raised you as his own. You are now a teenager and your uncle offers you two options - be trained as an assassin to avenge your parents’ death or have nothing to do with the criminal life your parents lived in, leaving the past in the past. Which would you choose? (Colombiana)

      A new weapon is being developed that will endanger billions of people on the planet if it is used. You have been chosen to save the Earth and you are the only person with the ability to do so. But to save the world, you must venture into

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