February 2010
Daily Writing Prompts

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A Pen In Each Hand

  1. A door clicked open above them.
  2. He said he’d come at moonrise.
  3. After the accident she was afraid to drive.
  4. “I play pool best when Rod Stewart is playing on the juke box”
  5. Chickadees and sparrows arguing over bird seed.
  6. They took bets on when the icicle would totally melt.
  7. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: dangerous, eight, watched, stranger, choice
    2. Write about the change in someone as he or she gets started working.
    3. Fill in the blanks: “a ______ in a sea of _________”
  8. She collected journals, but never wrote in them.
  9. Little quivers of excitement, like tiny springs uncoiling into spirals.
  10. She stood in the middle of the room, cool and silent, looking at him.
  11. Write an homage to a departed loved one.
  12. Explore the notion of “the essential androgyny of the creative mind.”
  13. A scallop-shell holding ovoids of blue and violet soap.
  14. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: sorry, family, gadget, seemed, particularly.
    2. Write about watching something happening while being powerless to affect the outcome.
    3. Write about missing an important ingredient or part of a story.
  15. He might as well have kicked the side of a mountain.
  16. The three stages of a man’s life: puberty, adolescence and adultery.
  17. A pair of very soft, glistening black shoes.
  18. Crossing the border was easy.
  19. A kerosene lamp, a cello, and a paint brush.
  20. “Everyone should have at least one sock monkey.”
  21. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: cardboard, unfamiliar, local, castle, gleaming. Alternate words: window, walls, funky, ceremonial, actually.
    2. Write about talking to an inanimate object.
    3. Fill in the blank: “when _____ was younger.”
  22. He hadn’t brushed his teeth in seventeen days.
  23. The abstract painting changed in the shifting light.
  24. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One..
  25. She quit her job as a school teacher and became a private detective.
  26. His senses were assaulted by the conflicting scented candles.
  27. “How can I live without popcorn?”
  28. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: missing, table, future, paper, legend
    2. Write about an imperfect reflection.
    3. Write about restraint(s).
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