Find ideas to write
✍️ Write from the novel The Hammock and the Hummingbirds — 8 ways to start
A scene stuck with you? Rewrite it.
What you write stays yours, and your name goes with it everywhere.
✍️ Invent your comeback
Pick a scene, rewrite it your way.
The journalist — What do you suggest to readers who want to draw on this scene, say the journey to the Nord Ultima?
The author — If someone tries to force a script on you that isn’t yours, so you don’t freeze inside other people’s stories, invent your comeback. Answer back with humour and pull the other person into your world. In the southern sun, in the Nord Ultima or anywhere else, over to you: pick any scene, write your story and publish it, so we can all enjoy it!
✍️ Write your personal ad
With a dash of self-deprecation: put your three finest flaws in the shop window, like Coraline’s Gallery of Imperfect Gems (chapter 2).
Share your ad✍️ Call out what annoys you, in the form of an apology.
Share your creation✍️ Write your ending
What if the story ended differently?
The journalist — But… in your book, the concert scene doesn’t exist?
The author — No, so I decided to ask readers who fancy it to write the scene where we meet again. Some have already been kind enough to send me their scripts. And since they knew I loved romantic comedies, but really didn’t want us to get back together, they respected my original choice and had a field day. I haven’t received them all yet… so if you feel like it, I’m waiting for your ideas.
✍️ Write your chain of “good advice”, all the way to the absurd.
Each piece of advice creates the problem the next one claims to solve.
Share your creation✍️ Write the secret line
Your epitaph.
The author — If you happen to fancy writing an epitaph, the little red carpet, the secret little line that drops hints about what’s going to happen in the next chapter. Pick any chapter you like, and publish your nuggets.
✍️ Slip in some quotes
Tell us a funny story and slip your quotes into it, then share your nuggets to make our little hearts flutter.
Share your quotes✍️ Pick a silly ringtone for each person who calls you often, and invent harebrained excuses to fire off when it rings.
Share your creation✍️ Invent your battle cry for changing course, and try it for a week.
Share your creation✍️ Invent glorious nicknames for the people around you.
Share your creation✍️ Describe a character through their belongings.
Share your creation✍️ Tell the story of a moment of chaos, to laugh about it.
Share your creation✍️ Invent a character who builds an outsized object for a harebrained reason.
Share your creation✍️ Write your recipe for a disastrous Christmas Eve dinner.
Share your creation✍️ Write two replies to an aggressive person: the one you dream of saying, and the one you actually say.
Share your creation✍️ Write a no you never dared to say.
Share your creation✍️ Show glorious lines from another angle. But watch out all the same: never judge a Viking by his cover…
Share your creation✍️ Keep a notebook of comebacks
Absurd, elegant, offbeat, teasing-but-kind, deadpan.
The Viking — You should keep a notebook of comebacks: absurd, elegant, offbeat, teasing-but-kind, deadpan. Apart from demigods, nobody’s perfect!
The author — You’re right. I take it with me to have a peek now and then, and I improvise. I jot down the funny little scenes of everyday life. I could try to learn one comeback a day, if I don’t forget by tomorrow…
Writing workshops
We get together, we write together.
The author — We start with the mood of the day. Then everyone throws out random words, we mix them up, and we write without knowing where it’ll take us.
I draw on Gianni Rodari. It’s like walking a tightrope… with the Viking swinging it every which way.
The Viking — I add a bit of spice. Otherwise it’s boring.
The author — Mix 2 words and hey presto: bouncing on a trampoline on a cloud.
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