May 2023
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on May 31, 2023 by TC Editors

Write about Mayday: distress call, labor day, or pagan holiday.
Use these five words: profile, death, danger, tote, wing
Write about the final rehearsal
Use these five words: creatives, platform, data, best, soccer
Write about a disguise
Write about breaking a record.
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1. Use the following five words: shadow, flush, piece, marine, article.
2. Use the phrase, “kick off your shoes.”
3. Write about removing a mask.
Use these five words: vast, relaxed, splashy, personal, trail
Use the phrase, “Isn’t that wonderful?”
Start your story with an obituary.
Work a software bug into a story.
Use these five words: blood, messages, blocked, agenda, memoir
Write about being too busy.
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1. Use the following five words: timetable, arrest, ant, draft, shallow.
2. Use the phrase, “It’s a mystery.”
3. Write about someone else’s holiday.
Use the phrase, “Do we need to do anything about it?”
Start with this line: “And what do you do?”
Write about an interruption.
Start with this line: “Enough is enough!”
When is not objecting good enough?
Write about freshly baked bread.
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1. Use the following five words: sheep, revoke, gate, personal, cellar.
2. Use the phrase, “You need to decide.”
3. Write about a library.
Write about a repressive regime.
Use the phrase, “I’m not late, yet.”
Use these five words: solitary, radical, violence, possessions, disarmament
Write about a wilting plant.
Use these five words: screen, delete, indigenous, black stone, secret
Write about the first really nice day.
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1. Use the following five words: red, familiar, cap, cruel, embark.
2. Use the phrase, “It’s electric.”
3. Write about olives.
Misquote Shakespeare.
Write about a vacation playground.
Write about a legendary vehicle.

April 2023
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on April 30, 2023 by TC Editors

Use the phrase, “I will not live to see it.”
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1. Use the following five words: obscure, option, treasury, seasonal, friendly.
2. Use the phrase, “I wasn’t expecting that.”
3. Write about breaking for lunch.
Use the phrase, “Do I need more coffee?”
Start your story with a choice that is not a choice.
Write a ten-year-old flashback.
Use these five words: spirit, merger, bowls, threatening, indicator
Your character apologizes for asking too many questions.
Start with this line: “It’s getting chilly outside.”
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1. Use the following five words: behavior, pierce, vacuum, crime, coast.
2. Use the phrase, “I haven’t heard that before.”
3. Write about avoiding a celebration.
Start your story with a toy drive.
Use the phrase, “Those are not birds.”
Start with this line: “What will it take to win?”
Write a shocked reaction.
Start your story with your MC picking up a hitchhiker.
Write about blowing off steam.
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1. Use the following five words: breed, twin, move, reach, reserve.
2. Use the phrase, “What day is it?”
3. Write about talking in code.
Write about skipping an obligation.
Use these five words: red sea, reality, collective, evaporate, suspicious
Write about inventing tasks for another person.
Start with this line: “I’m so happy for you!”
Use the phrase, “I can’t believe it’s been a month already.”
Write about the results of a poll.
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Start with this line: “Do you ever get a feeling that…”
Coin a word and use it three times.
Start with this line: “What’s going on here?”
Write about light at the end of a tunnel.
Start your story with your MC finding a body.
Write a rhyme for remembering something.
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1. Use the following five words: protest, island, forge, opposed, hallway.
2. Use the phrase, “The colors are impressive.”
3. Write about an excuse.

March 2023
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on March 31, 2023 by TC Editors

Write about waiting for the alarm.
Use these five words: state, students, angels, confinement, men
Set a conversation in the kitchen.
Start with this line: “You’re so tenacious.”
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1. Use the following five words: bay, low, vacuum, spend, obligation.
2. Use the phrase, “caught on camera.”
3. Write about feeling seen or feeling understood.
Start your story with financial support being withheld.
Write about forgetting someone’s name.
Write about having baggage.
Is it possible to have too many books?
Start with this line: “Can you get a closer look?”
Write about lying by omission.
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1. Use the following five words: problem, suntan, tidy, soar, habit.
2. Use the phrase, “someone would notice.”
3. Write about feeling alone in a crowd.
Write about turning the calendar a week late.
Start with this line: “Where are you from?”
Write about getting something you always wanted.
Write about the wrong kind of shoes.
Write about a historical artifact.
Write about an emotional tribute.
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1. Use the following five words: cake, forestry, kidney, flourish, solve.
2. Use the phrase, “I don’t know what that means.”
3. Write about an empty bottle.
Start with this line: “You were warned.”
Use the phrase, “Once a season, whether we need it or not.”
Write about a nanny school.
Write about using a partial deck of cards.
Start with this line: “But I always thought…”
Write about a failed organizer.
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1. Use the following five words: publish, articulate, monstrous, carry, imperial.
2. Use the phrase, “…and a half.”
3. Write about a traffic jam.
Write about avoiding the city.
Use these five words: house, sailing, withdrawals, subscribe, history
Translate some goose honking.
Write about a word that is overused.
Write about a classic car.

February 2023
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on February 28, 2023 by TC Editors

Answer a question with, “Wait, what?”
Start your story with a viral video.
Write about a tune that’s stuck in your head.
Start with this line: “I was set up!”
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1. Use the following five words: hook, turkey, predict, wrist, accent.
2. Use the phrase, “I didn’t need to hear that.”
3. Write about searching for that something you’ve almost forgotten about.
Start with this line: “I don’t fit that description.”
Write about a heating system failure on a cold day.
Start your story with your MC faceplanting in mud in front of witnesses.
Write about a machine making a mistake.
Start with this line: “I’ve had enough.”
Write about a meeting in the dark.
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1. Use the following five words: scrap, first, transparent, trick, opposed.
2. Use the phrase, “need to know.”
3. Write about deciding what to eat.
Write about not celebrating a common holiday.
Write about a female character who eschews femininity.
Write about the life of an escaped pet.
Write about having embarrassing taste.
Write about looking at a closed book.
Write about a great opportunity.
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1. Use the following five words: merit, ward, water, concept, charismatic.
2. Use the phrase, “is that my phone?”
3. Write about trying to do too many things at once.
Start your story with your MC making the next round of a competition.
Write about reclaiming a misused word.
Start with this line: “I don’t know if I can do this right.”
Rewrite a story from a different point of view.
Start with this line: “The lesson is…”
Write about returning to a cold cup of tea.
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1. Use the following five words: cunning, chorus, fortune, hallway, formulate.
2. Use the phrase, “fairly weak tea.”
3. Write about trying to avoid conflict.
Start with, “How do I do that?”
Use these five words: court, daily, lobster, round, fancy

January 2023
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on January 31, 2023 by TC Editors

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1. Use the following five words: heavy, fisherman, sin, inspector, justice.
2. Use the phrase, “How much does this free stuff cost?”
3. Write about brunch.
Write about living mindfully.
Write about missing the point of a holiday.
Start with this line: “It’s hopeless.”
Write about being too tired to think straight.
Use these five words: catastrophic, remove, boring, space, patterns
Write a ‘what if’ scenario.
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1. Use the following five words: tile, cable, skate, doubt, fence.
2. Use the phrase, “stay tuned.”
3. Write about misusing a map.
Write about talking to a gardener while they work.
Start your story at a wedding where everything goes wrong.
Write about a machine that fails at a critical moment.
Use these five words: corgi, treasures, environment, moderation, toxic
Write a flawed explanation.
Write about evaluating someone else’s work.
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1. Use the following five words: recruit, management, suggest, parade, suit.
2. Use the phrase, “I would like to thank …”
3. Write about an annoyance.
Write about a human-sized teddy bear.
Use the phrase “It doesn’t make sense.”
Write about an ugly sweater.
Write about a dead battery.
Use these five words: boost, shortage, pitches, distortion, subscription
Write about an unfamiliar food.
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1. Use the following five words: horizon, articulate, name, dictionary, kick.
2. Use the phrase, “I had such an experience when …”
3. Write about losing something of no consequence.
Write about a flickering votive candle.
Start your story with a character watching an ’80s TV episode.
Write about hunting for a parking space.
Start with this line: “Hi, it’s me.”
Write about cooperating on a building project.
Use these five words: games, studying, faint, performance, months
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1. Use the following five words: screen, list, growth, drawing, sandwich.
2. Use the phrase, “That’s all, folks!”
3. Write about deciding what to do with a day off.
Start with this line: “Is there anything I can do to help you?”
Use “You can’t leave until you finish this.”

December 2022
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on December 31, 2022 by TC Editors

Write about an unexpected pleasure.
Start your story on a plane.
Use the word serendipity.
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1. Use the following five words: snail, prove, snarl, squash, lack.
2. Use the phrase, “What have we learned from this?”
3. Write about an advertisement.
Write about giving someone something they already have too much of.
Use these five words: accomplishments, truth, fuchsia, pregnant, different
Write about fidgeting to ignore someone,
Start your story on a scenic railway journey.
Use the phrase, “Am I going deaf?”
Write about making a deal with a witch.
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1. Use the following five words: camera, keep, sleeve, upset, charismatic.
2. Use the phrase, “dropped out of sight.”
3. Write about a scorched oven mitt.
Use these five words: transgressive, arguments, check, frustrated, secession
Write about a dog quivering with attention.
Use these five words: juicy, widow, epic, community, legacy
Write about a small-world moment.
Start your story at a music festival.
Write about trying to remember how old you are.
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1. Use the following five words: Glass, lamp, phone, cable, wrapper.
2. Use the phrase, “It’s my favourite holiday tradition.”
3. Write about write about unsportsmanlike behaviour.
Write about a dirty little secret.
Start with this line: Get off your soapbox.
Write about a meeting venue after everyone has left.
Start your story at a premiere.
Write about a demonstration that failed.
Write about a thought crime.
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Start with this line: It’s ridiculous in many ways.
Write about solitude on holidays that celebrate togetherness.
Start with this line: Are you sleeping?
Write about an unexpected visitor.
Start your story by a campfire.
Use the phrase, “Wait, what?”

November 2022
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on November 30, 2022 by TC Editors

Write about a commemoration of the dead.
Use these five words: mandatory, multiple, detained, whistleblower, spooky
Write about struggling to wake up.
Start your story on another habitable planet.
Use the phrase, “That’s not what we expected.”
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1. Use the following five words: trivial, gown, college, wriggle, stereotype.
2. Use the phrase, “if you can get away with it.”
3. Write about an expected malfunction.
Write about being illiterate.
Start with this line: The rules have been revised.
Write a conversation over washing dishes.
Write about breathing a sigh of relief.
Write about life in the trenches.
Write about cowardice.
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1. Use the following four words: blue, box, picture, age, puzzle.
2. Use the phrase, “Hit it out of the park.”
3. Write about a time change.
Use these five words: vehicle, secret, detour, majority, storm
Set your story in an abandoned town.
Start with this line: We need to keep the pressure up.
Write about being out in foul weather.
Start with this line: They think they’re going to die young.
Write about trying to recruit volunteers.
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1. Use the following five words: grave, blind, throne, white, turkey.
2. Use the phrase, “I don’t deserve it.”
3. Write about carry-out food.
Write about a holiday only you celebrate.
Write about receiving an award.
Write about solitude.
Write about sleeping in.
Write about a significant typographical error.
Write about a twist.
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1. Use the following five words: plastic, dedicate, vat, depend, doctor.
2. Use the phrase, “We don’t talk about that.”
3. Write about hosting a gathering.
Use these five words: league, assistance, eggs, venom, invented
Write about learning something too late.
Start with this line: She’s moving back to _____.

October 2022
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on October 31, 2022 by TC Editors

Write about an unexpected rabbit.
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1. Use the following five words: present, pound, bench, unique, lip.
2. Use the phrase, “Don’t use that, it’s broken.”
3. Write about a storm warning.
Use the phrase, “All day tomorrow.”
Start your story at the White House.
Use the phrase, “Did we do that?”
Start your story in a hospital.
Write about talking to another dog-walker.
Start your story on a movie set.
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1. Use the following five words: mother, absolute, shave, rotation, vat.
2. Use the phrase, “It’s that season again.”
3. Write about checking details.
Start your story in an abandoned house.
Write about forgetting to charge a battery.
Start with this line: How did that work out for you?
Make up a superstition for Thursday the 13th.
Start your story in a rose garden.
Write about an off-by-one error.
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1. Use the following five words: planet, question, vehicle, rotate, bitter.
2. Use the phrase, “When we were young and foolish.”
3. Write about seeing a change in someone else.
Write about a brush with fame.
Start with this line: Correct me if I’m wrong…
Describe an off-color joke without quoting it.
Use these five words: home, soup, elections, moments, paprika
Write about walking away without looking back.
Start with this line: This could be the difference.
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1. Use the following five words: veteran, economics, pawn, slime, seek.
2. Use the phrase, “credible failure.”
3. Write about the day the weather turned threatening.
Write about trust.
Use the phrase, “a quarter billion.”
Start with this line: You haven’t seen anything yet.
Use the phrase, “There’s one more thing.”
Use these five words: charm, exclusive, drags, death, struggle
Use, “This thing ain’t none too reliable.”
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1. Use the following five words: pen, respectable, firm, recovery, danger.
2. Use the phrase, “Here’s the plan.”
3. Write about being overwhelmed.
Write from the point of view of a character who has died.

September 2022
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on September 30, 2022 by TC Editors

Write about spending all day waiting.
Use these five words: story, child marriage, happy, service, results
Write about the first day on a new job.
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1. Use the following five words: annual, miserable, hilarious, possession, eye.
2. Use the phrase, “bleached by the sun.”
3. Write about an unusual coffee break.
Write about confusing tasks while multitasking.
Write about an unpopular opinion.
Write about computer-aided chaos.
Use these five words: soprano, indigenous, winter, root, alien
Write about a stone circle.
Use these five words: showrunner, spine-chilling, cozy, comeback, avocado toast
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1. Use the following five words: allow, restrain, main, splurge, valid.
2. Use the phrase, “That’s revolutionary.”
3. Write about translation problems.
Use these five words: motor, horse, regular, special, boars
Write about hiking with a kid who loves bugs.
Start with this line: How much concern is there for…
Write about doing something with the wrong hand.
Write about a good habit.
Write about forgetting to water plants.
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1. Use the following five words: practical, queen, disgrace, manual, player.
2. Use the phrase, “rooted out.”
3. Write about losing several games in a row.
Use the phrase, “Are we having fun yet?”
Write about authenticity.
Write about someone who’s always angry.
Start with this line: I want one of everything!
Write a story and enter the Savage memorial Sci-Fi/Fantasy writing contest.
Start your story behind a camera.
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1. Use the following five words: contact, free, circulate, explosion, electron.
2. Use the phrase, “a lot of water.”
3. Write about a lemonade stand.
Start with this line: We’ve reached a deal.
Write about a job interview.
Start your story with a character saying “no.”
Write about meeting prospective in-laws.
Use these five words: adopted, construction, smack, blocked, vans

August 2022
Daily Writing Prompts

Posted on August 31, 2022 by TC Editors

Write about turning in homework late.
Start with this line: Will it be enough?
Write about waiting for results.
Use these five words: dormant, soprano, angel, smile, dream
Write about a remote control that only works close up.
Use these five words: dream, passengers, define, undermining, neighborly
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Start your story during a storm.
Write about cracking a code.
Use these five words: together, unvaxed, berries, electricity, porcupine
Write about a bad customer service experience.
Start with this line: I was feeling really confident.
Write about being absorbed in a piece of art.
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1. Use the following five words: flavor, motorist, room, joint, burn.
2. Use the phrase, “and their siblings.”
3. Write about an occasional dinner with a friend.
Start your story on board a ship, at midnight, with a strong wind blowing.
Use these five words: accident, nip, tied, eerie, haystack
Write about a transformation.
Start your story with a cancellation.
Write about weather completely unlike today’s.
Use these five words: design, horseshoe, livestream, map, grandma
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1. Use the following five words: palm, adult, mixture, trouble, aisle.
2. Use the phrase, “closer to the track.”
3. Write about an event that cannot be rescheduled.
Write about breaking tradition.
Write about a band trying to distract people.
Write about an avoidable crisis.
Write about gazing out the window, daydreaming.
Write about a special date.
Write about using a broken tool.
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1. Use the following five words: judicial, cottage, owe, bell, grant.
2. Use the phrase, “very close to the edge.”
3. Write about something that’s urgently needed but unavailable.
Write about a dreaded anniversary.
Start with this line: He’s quite stubborn.
Write about being unable to please a customer.

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