- Gags, the one-legged trucker.
- The last night of the community theater run of “Oklahoma.”
- “I can’t explain that painting but I can tell you why I bought it.”
- Three fathers standing around a barbecue grill talking about a game.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: store, describes, crossed, forbidden, stretching.
- Write about a string, rope, braid, or ribbon.
- Use the phrase, “Perhaps it’s time.”
- Base a story or poem on a Madonna song title.
- A man cutting the grass stumbles across an unexpected object.
- “My first job out of college was as a tour guide.”
- Take an existing,stalled work and edit the word count down 10%.
- After finding a source of clean water, the group’s top priority is…
- “If you’d given me the task sooner, he wouldn’t be dead.”
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: flood, existence, transition, story, thinner
- Use the following phrase, “Well, that’s annoying.”
- Write about a lie you were told as a child.
- An argument over the new sofa as it’s being delivered.
- Two children eat slices of birthday cake on the porch/stoop.
- Begin in a dentist’s waiting room and end in a used bookstore.
- Nine years later, a new clue comes to light.
- A nude woman walks up to a newsstand and buys a paper and a pack of gum.
- Margaret runs out of bags at her yard sale / boot sale.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: doing, breathe, code, thank, timely.
- Take the sentence “Love is a plane crash of the soul” and replace all but one of the nouns.
- Use the phrase, “unusually quiet.”
- The narrator/MC can’t place the man s/he’s talking to until his phone rings.
- Character 1: “It feels like Tuesday.” Character 2: “It is Tuesday.”
- A mother braids her daughter’s hair.
- “No monkey business,” he said, taking a step back.
- Heat, spice and sizzle.
- “This looks silly without the music.”
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: barely, crawled, arrival, abrupt, recognition
- Write about a mess: creation, care, feeding, or resolution.
- Write about something green.
- Her first day out of jail, he spots her waiting outside his kitchen.
- A black cat sits on top of an aquarium licking its lips.
- A bouquet of white shasta daisies wrapped in green wax paper.
- A tall man with dark hair and glasses approaches the librarian’s desk.
- Celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday by writing something for people under 18.