- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: telling, waiting, tomorrow, coincidentally, kicked
- Write about a provocation that your character can almost, but not quite, ignore.
- Write about Fall, falling, or something fallen.
- Validate a character’s fears
- Set a scene in a minor character’s workplace
- Get inspired for a character bio by a topic at the NIMH
- “You can have anything you want. All you have to do for me is…”
- Write 500 words on a stolen moment at a children’s party
- There’s one secret he’s kept from his best friend. Write the story of it.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: twenty, often, bolts, stove, family.
- Write about having to borrow something that you urgently need.
- Use the phrase, “If only there were more than 24 hours in a day.”
- Dark chocolate, Frank Sinatra and a dusting of snow
- She wants to know all the details, no matter how sick they make her feel
- A yellow eye, staring out of the darkness. It blinks. Then —
- It seems colder on a clear night with a full moon
- He walked under the ladder on purpose, as always
- Fish sticks and chocolate pudding for dinner, eaten with a spork
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: wall, explosive, season, leaving, hands
- Write about vengeance declined.
- Fill in the blanks: “______ has always been ______.”
- A pair of broken eyeglasses in a paper bag
- She left behind a Pez dispenser and a pair of pink underwear
- One piece of apple pie
- “You agree with me? Congratulations.”
- The less expensive of two evils
- “Are you sure that’s octopus?”
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: encountered, people, lighter, drove, early.
- This week I saw the following two items on a bulleted list on a whiteboard: lunch, shadows. Write something connecting the two.
- Use the phrase “on the other hand”.
- “Actually I do have a question. But you’ll never answer it.”
- A moldy jack-o-lantern falls off the front porch step
- Two tickets for the concert
- “We don’t serve the pie until the football game starts.”
- Outside the store at 5:13 a.m.
- There was something fishy about the rhubarb pie. Literally.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: sweat, sense, counteract, jumble, cartwheel
- Include the names of at least two kinds of non-human animals.
- Write about connecting the dots. (Alternate prompt: beer.)
- They both reached for the radishes.