- “I love it but does it come in pink?”
- Found: an index card listing three ways to fend off zombies
- Get inspired by visiting a museum in person or online
- Conversation at a cafe table on the sidewalk in a college town
- Resolve to make a consistent writing appointment every Friday and keep it
- Genre challenge: try horror, gothic or romance
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: elder, requirement, overhead, another, laid.
- Write about a question that’s answered silently.
- Use the phrase, “I’ll be there.”
- “We’re behind schedule. What do you intend to do about that?”
- An antique ring around a tree root
- Try fanfic: read part of your favorite book then take it in a new direction
- Research markets and contests at Duotrope
- Use a fairy tale as a template or inspiration for a modern story/poem
- Genre challenge: try cyberpunk, steampunk or other sci fi
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: beauty, waning, declined, short, troubled (bonus word: internal)
- Use the phrase “No. Well, yes.”
- How did you (or your character) spend the lost hour?
- “I smelled it on the elevator so please don’t elaborate.”
- A bag of teeth and a box of glitter
- Get inspired. Search Etsy.com for “green” & write about an object you find
- Prefer music or silence while writing? Try the opposite today.
- Among the ruins, he finds a box of wind.
- Genre challenge: try crime, mystery or thriller
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: express, curtain, living, afternoon, forgot
- Write about a missed message.
- Write about having too many things in a pile.
- “The red bandana doesn’t surprise me but why is he wearing your panties?”
- A red stapler, a box of tissues and a zebra tail
- Get inspired: Write in public, incorporating the unexpected around you
- Set your story in the year you turned thirteen
- He thought he’d killed it… until that twitch of the tail.
- Genre challenge: try dark fantasy or magical realism
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: unlike, girl, seemed, whatever, bedside.
- Write about something that won’t stay where it belongs.
- Describe something abstract in concrete terms (for example, the shape of a stomach ache).
- “You’re interrupting my rejuvenating process. Someone had better be dying.”
- A dilapidated snowman melting in a spring thaw
- Inspiration: Write a story based on whatever’s on channel 4 right now.
