- Use these in a story/poem: pressure, plastic, purple.
- Opening line: “Get me out of here!”
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: silence, true, question, compatible, misguided
- Use the phrase “definite impossibilty”
- Write about the end of an era.
- Write about two brothers, who barely get along, having an argument.
- Write about a scene about psychological or emotional torment.
- Theme: pampering and/or recuperation.
- Send a character on a (physical) voyage. Write the departure scene.
- A grandparent shocks his/her grandchild with a flippant aside.
- Use “silver” as a symbol or theme.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: white, tools, except, would, action.
- Someone says “thank you.”
- Write about a third eye.
- “What a way to run a railroad.”
- Open your story/poem with three ducklings following their mother.
- A teenager home from school finds something unexpected on the kitchen table.
- Setting: opening night of a silent film festival.
- Use dialogue: “Yeah, I have a suggestion. Why don’t you call The Colonel?”
- Write a mini-mystery (complete in under 1000 words).
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: during, communicate, harbors, owner, second.
- Use the following, including the quotation marks, as a complete paragraph: “You didn’t.”
- Write about an unwitting volunteer.
- The twentieth anniversary of the event.
- Everything in what would have been the previous scene has gone all wrong.
- Base a story/poem on the last song lyrics you remember hearing.
- At a flea market, two people find something they’ve been searching for.
- Setting: a small town drugstore.
- A night at the opera.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: stands, blast, smoothing, months, relieved.
- Use the names of at least two varieties of cheese.
- Write about a role reversal.
- Stuck in a story? Kill off the last character who spoke (except your MC).
- Someone is asking your MC some inconvenient questions.
- She’s told not to worry her pretty little head about it.
- He’s told to “man up” about it.
- Write a scene between two people with different ideas about the afterlife.
- Write a scene based on today’s weather forecast.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: sands, shoulder, strong, pieces, times.
- Begin a sentence with one of these words: nobody, everybody, somebody, anybody.
- Write about a promise made, kept, implied, or broken.