Daily Writing Prompts 2012

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January 2012

  1. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: watch, breath, resigned, smoke, could.
    2. Write about an odd name for a person or thing.
    3. Use the phrase, "Now, to begin."
  2. An unfinished glass of champagne.
  3. It never did snow that day.
  4. A New Year's resolution that lasted for only three days.
  5. A tree branch covered in ice.
  6. The smell of burning wood in the cold air.
  7. The store was already decorating for Valentine's Day.
  8. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: persuasive, illness, pieces, intersected, thumb
    2. Write about studiously ignoring something obvious.
    3. Use the phrase, “that sounds like work.”
  9. The taste of hot chocolate after it has burned your tongue.
  10. An empty bird's nest in a bare tree.
  11. A raging storm outside, a crackling fire inside.
  12. Late for school the third time this week.
  13. Friday the 13th was my lucky day.
  14. I had totally forgotten about Joey.
  15. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: stared, between, apathy, waistcoat, splinter.
    2. Use the phrase, “how does it feel”.
    3. Write about communication by carrier pigeon.
  16. A skiff of fresh snow.
  17. Inside an apartment with the curtains drawn.
  18. Explain your creative process.
  19. A character shaves his moustache.
  20. Visiting a national park.
  21. A literal or metaphorical sinking ship.
  22. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: voice, ice, pushing, hundred, suddenly
    2. Use the phrase "That is the reason I am here."
    3. Write about a theft.
  23. A bowl of oranges, lemons, and limes.
  24. Speaking to a press conference.
  25. Write a parody of a public domain book.
  26. An outbreak of norovirus strikes your characters.
  27. Space debris falls to earth.
  28. A carjacking.
  29. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: sweat, sweet, kamikaze, self-made, could.
    2. Fill in the blanks: "There’s no ____ like ______".
    3. Write about relaxing in a sunbeam.
  30. A bookcase organized by color.
  31. In the audience at an awards show.

February 2012

  1. A flock of cedar waxwings gorging on mulberries.
  2. She always wished on the first star she saw at night.
  3. Create a place defined by smell.
  4. Leather books with crackling spines.
  5. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: angles, blow, light, class, vulnerable
    2. Use the phrase, "Hope is a dangerous thing."
    3. Use three different adjectives to describe something or someone.
  6. The man in the grey suit stands alone, unnoticed.
  7. Paper lanterns bouncing in the breeze.
  8. Shadows, like silent howling faces.
  9. It's 3 a.m. A man is alone in a laundromat.
  10. She was plain as a plate.
  11. He was drenched in anxiety.
  12. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: fortune, knotted, extra, sweet, drag.
    2. Write about hitting a new high (or new low).
    3. Write about Saturday night at the edge of the world (hat tip to io9.com)
  13. His voice changed from thunder to silk.
  14. "Death is a mere technicality."
  15. All she could remember about him was his nose.
  16. I felt slighted and betrayed.
  17. Only her perfume lingered.
  18. Wine is bottled poetry.
  19. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: surprise, twice, season, attached, breed
    2. Use the phrase “That’s right, You don't understand.”
    3. Fill in the blanks: “__________ is a place where _________”
  20. A woman with pitted cheeks and black hair cut in bangs.
  21. Rain dancing on a lake.
  22. Use false teeth, a silver necklace and knitted cap in a poem or short story.
  23. The smile starting to die on her mouth.
  24. Celebrate rain in a poem or short story.
  25. Visit your library today and check out a book in a genre you don't read.
  26. Get today's Sunday Brunch Prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: warning, small, mused, until, hunger.
    2. Fill in the blanks: “no ______, ______, or ______.”
    3. Write about a distinctive facial feature.
  27. A dare at a county fair.
  28. "I can't tell you how I feel right now."
  29. Her increasing grey hairs excited her.

March 2012

  1. Use a current popular song as a prompt.
  2. Click the link and pick a photo to write about.
  3. Failing health.
  4. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: silver, factory, house, guess, ancient
    2. Use the phrase "I thought it was extinct."
    3. Fill in the blank: “I’ve been ______ my whole life.”
  5. Watching a kitten play with string.
  6. Miscommunication of quantitative information.
  7. The next layer of subtlety.
  8. Getting a hand-out.
  9. Moving away.
  10. Going without something important.
  11. Unexpected visit from an old friend.
  12. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: well, slide, welcoming, cicadas, lips.
    2. Write about counting (or a Count)
    3. Use the phrase, "Speaking of apocalypses…"
  13. Collision between two parts of a character's life.
  14. "Tell me why."
  15. "That color is not on the rainbow."
  16. Beware the Ides of March.
  17. Sandals in the snow.
  18. Look up "synecdoche" and use one.
  19. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: mixing, destination, slowly, reached, often.
    2. aethycyn: Add a breakfast food.
    3. Sue: whooping cough, potting soil, killer, amazed and cinnamon
    4. bo: In honour of Rush Limbaugh: write about (a) wearsluts and/or (b) bewaresluts
    5. ana: Use the phrase "pretend for an hour life made sense." (Thanks to NC Weil)
    6. toxicfur: In honor of Sir Terry Pratchett, use the following phrases: "tincture of night" and "soup of the afternoon"
    7. Bob: "Piddle and payment don't go together."
    8. devtrash: Write about waking up in an empty hotel pool, bloodied and bruised.
  20. finishing what you start... or not.
  21. peeking at what someone's reading on their ereader.
  22. Spring clean your writing space.
  23. Try a different genre or medium.
  24. Write about a yearning for something.
  25. Focus on the present year, month, week, day, hour, moment.
  26. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
    1. Use the following words: raining, anticipation, hummed, stop, pursue
    2. Write about a recycled hat.
    3. Use the phrase, “On the next day, ...”
  27. Describe your imagined audience.
  28. Steal the title of an existing book & use it as a starting point.
  29. Go to Wikipedia, click 'random article' & write about that topic.
  30. Be inspired by a non-writing activity you like to do.
  31. Being too cold or too hot.
  32. Out like a lamb.

April 2012

  1. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: Diagonal, stopped, circle, rising, Swiss.
    2. Write about a map (real or metaphorical).
    3. Write about new energy for the spring—April fuels.
  2. The gray tones of winter gave way to a gentle tide of green
  3. A restaurant with its own herb garden.
  4. The glint of light on broken glass
  5. He considered a woman running barefoot sexy.
  6. A day in the life of a trolley car driver.
  7. The dusk purpled our room.
  8. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: know, roof, quick, crowd, discarded
    2. Write about a childhood nightmare.
    3. Write about an increase in temperature.
  9. He moved like a flash of light.
  10. She enjoyed the sensation of fear.
  11. Three large motorcycles parked in front of a bar.
  12. A backpack tucked underneath an azalea bush.
  13. A character with an unusual style of beard/mustache.
  14. A freshly sharpened pencil.
  15. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following words: flakes, floor, future, front, filled
    2. Write about two or more people doing something in unison.
    3. Incorporate a famous quote from a movie or TV show.
  16. A character with poor table manners.
  17. A set of nesting bowls.
  18. A field of tulips.
  19. A character must make a choice. Write the scene two different ways.
  20. Start with the lyrics to a popular song & turn them into a story.
  21. Find a nice place to sit & think about your WIP for 15-30 min. Then write!.
  22. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
    1. Use the following five words: repeat, through, college, kamikaze, breeze.
    2. Fill in the blanks: “Never ______ with a _____”.
    3. Use the phrase (thx Neil Gaiman) "Events are cowards. They run in packs."
  23. Write the same scene in 1st, 2nd & 3rd person.
  24. The perfect day job for a writer is...
  25. Start with a line from a favorite poem.
  26. Imagine winning a writing award. Outline the steps you'll take to get there.
  27. Record yourself reading your work aloud. Listen to it, then revise.
  28. Put on a silly hat and/or pair of shoes. Now write!
  29. Get today's Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
  30. Go write in an unusual location.

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