Today's Writing Prompt

Writing Prompt: compose the dialogue of an argument between a mother and father about some trivial household issue.

Today's Writing Prompt

Writing prompt: write the speech a member of Alcoholics Anonymous gives his teenage son on a night the son comes home drunk after curfew.

Today's Writing Prompt

Writing Prompt: write a beef cattle's guide to enjoying your short, humiliating life.

Today's Writing Prompt

Writing prompt: a survival manual for a young female character in a slasher film.

Today's Writing Prompt

Writing prompt: compose a song squirrels might sing while gathering nuts for winter.

Today's Writing Prompt

Writing prompt: a private investigator's report on your neighbor's activities. (hint: your neighbor isn't normal)

Today's Writing Prompt

Writing prompt: a short prayer a child (under 10) who lives near a war zone might give.

Today's Writing Prompt

Writing Prompt: Write the transcript of a few 911 calls showing an ongoing trend of violence (abuse, etc.)

Friday Writing Prompt

Friday Writing Prompt: What advice would a five-year-old child give to his/her teddy bear about the monster living under the bed?

Picture Prompt #6

Write for Wednesday #6

Writing prompt: Write a list of instructions a mother dog might give her pups on how to manipulate her human masters.

Non-Traditional Tuesday Writing Prompt #7

Design a class schedule for a student enrolled in a university during the 31st century.

Spark Word: Laconic

laconic - brief; using few words

Use the spark word as a springboard for writing. Add a character to your work in progress who is laconic.

Picture Prompt #5

Write for Wednesday #5

Write a letter from an alien explorer trapped on earth to his/her mother after the explorer realizes he/she cannot return home.

Non-Traditional Tuesday Writing Prompt #6

Make a list of everything a zombie did between sunrise and sunset.

Spark Word: Askew

askew- to one side; crooked; awry; a sidelong look of contempt

Use the spark word as a springboard for writing.

Picture Prompt #4

Write for Wednesday #4

Time machine: read and rewrite a news story but change the time period by at least 200 years.

Non-Traditional Tuesday Writing Prompt #5

Describe the taste of something you would never normally taste but will not harm you.

Spark Word: Milieu

milieu: environment or surroundings

Use the spark word as a springboard for writing. Set a story in a milieu that is alien or foreign to you.

Just Write #5

Write the final sermon for an Evangelical preacher who has decided to leave the church after admitting a secret--one which does not follow the precepts of the church (e.g., the preacher has embezzled money from the church coffers to pay for his/her gambling habit).

Picture Prompt #3

Write for Wednesday #3

From the news: read a news story and rewrite it as a fictional account. Change key details (i.e., more than the names of the involved parties).

Non-Traditional Tuesday Writing Prompt #4

List twenty items you might find in a vampire's crypt.

Spark Word: Evade

evade - to elude or avoid by cunning; to flee from a pursuer

Use the spark word as a springboard for writing. Why does one character need to evade another?

Just Write #4

You've moved into a new house and just found a letter behind the refrigerator. The postmark is from twenty years ago. There is no return address, and the letter is still sealed. You decide to open it.

Write the letter.

Non-Traditional Tuesday Writing Prompt #3

Write a collage of all the items/people you see within twenty feet of your current location.

Just Write #3

Write a futuristic encyclopedia entry that describes first contact with an alien race.

Picture Prompt #2

Write for Wednesday #2

Gender-Bender: Rewrite Cinderella with a boy playing the lead role.

Non-Traditional Tuesday Writing Prompt #2

List the strange behaviors a city bus driver sees in a typical day on the job.

Spark Word: Lacerate

Spark word: Lacerate - to tear roughly; mangle

Yes, it's a verb. Heh.

Just Write #2

Write the transcript of your testimony involving a murder.

Picture Prompt #1

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Write for Wednesday #1

Mash up: rewrite "The Three Little Pigs" as if it was a science fiction story.

Non-Traditional Tuesday Writing Prompt #1

Make a list of food the world's heaviest person might eat in a day.

Spark Word: Equality

Spark word: equality - the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability.

Use the spark word as a springboard for writing.

Just Write #1

Write a birthday letter to the parent who did not receive custody after the divorce.