- 2008 Dead of Winter Writing Contest Opens!
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: brown, million, mouth, worked, mother.
- Write about something or someone without a name.
- Substitute a word in a familiar phrase with another word. Bonus points for a word that’s similar to the original with a completely different meaning.
- Can Zombies find love?
- Let the moon be the theme of your writing today.
- His enthusiasm energized them both.
- She scraped his face with a pumice stone.
- Deep green ivy hid the brick wall.
- We were so happy.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: fashion, last, headboard, reading, arrival.
- Fill in the blanks: “______ is the ______ of ________.”
- Use the phrase, “under the bed.”
- The sweat ran off his skin like snakes.
- You could hear the jukebox roaring through the front door.
- The edge of a public park, where the wildflowers bloom.
- Do not prolong my suffering.
- The building suggests unexplored spaces.
- Your protag communicates with deer.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: credit, responded, outline, placidly, shook.
- Use the phrase “everything depends.”
- The other day I saw a woman standing on a corner, gesturing at the passing cars as if half-heartedly hitchhiking and not really thinking she’ll get picked up. But as I passed by it actually looked like she was giving them the finger. So, you can write whatever you want from that, but the prompt is: Include a gesture that has a commonly understood meaning.
- Two brothers thumb wrestling.
- His mother was magical.
- Once the car was gone the wind was the only sound.
- I put the house key in my pocket.
- The air was like cotton.
- Fog creeping through a mountain valley.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- Use the following words: alone, digital, problem, unsettled, wondering.
- Write about someone starting to do something, then stopping.
- Write about the irresistible force meeting the immovable object.
- A blizzard of difficulties.
- A thick shroud of fog clung to the ground.
- Mourning the loss of innocence.
- The doctor was informative, curteous and even sympathetic.
- When stereotypes break down.
- Maybe he was right.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises.
- These words are taken verbatim from Remainder by Tom McCarthy. Use at least five of the following: jug, bridge, cigarette, oyster, fruitbat, windowsill, sponge.
- Write about loss of balance.
- Write about something that is white.