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1000 Writing Prompts for Gong'an

1000 Writing Prompts for Gong'an

Blake, Imogen

Paperback

Series: 1000 Writing Prompts, Book 6

Writing Instruction

ISBN13: 9798172821783
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

You want to write Chinese court-case fiction: the magistrate at his bench, the body in the well at dawn, three witnesses lying and a whole county waiting on the verdict. What you don't want is to build every case from a blank page, or to get the world wrong.

1000 Writing Prompts for Gong'an hands you a thousand cases with the hard part already done, each one grounded in how these courts actually worked, from the coroner's examination of the body to the confession the law demanded before a sentence could stand. Every prompt is a complete scenario with the crime already on the page, tagged by era, tone, and length so you can pull exactly the case you want. Open the book, choose a case, and write. No warm-up, no research first.

Whether you write gong'an, wuxia, xianxia, silkpunk, or historical mystery, you will find:

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