- She was fourteen weeks pregnant at her bachelorette party
- Someone greets your character with “Welcome to Tingle Tuesday!”
- Try It Friday: steampunk romance
- It should have been black but looked indigo in the moonlight.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: context, invited, slower, bridge, apart
- Write about the rules of the game.
- Write about a black hole, smoking gun, or any of the cliches in this post.
- Spend five min today building a character around a specific trait/mannerism
- Submit something for publication today. Don’t think; just do!
- “I’m not saying it shouldn’t be purple but it shouldn’t be purple.”
- Use in a story/poem: red, knitted, aggravate
- Try It Friday: gothic myth
- Open a story with a character eating the last food you ate.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: donned, against, illusion, slide, utterly.
- Incorporate the name of a song (with or without reference to the song itself). Bonus points for multiple songs by the same artist.
- Write about grace under fire.
- Record yourself reading one of your stories/poems, published or not.
- Remove a game from your computer. Use game time to write instead.
- “You could glue macaroni on it and dip it in glitter and say it’s art.”
- Use in a story/poem: breathe, candle, bottle
- Try It Friday: science fiction mystery
- A shopping bag contains a cantaloupe, Kleenex and a two-liter of Dr. Pepper
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: hunger, arms, pathway, smiled, quota.
- Write about giving up or letting go of something you’ve always done, because it’s too much to carry on doing it.
- Use the phrase “was it cherry, or was it grape?”
- Shuffle up some music and get inspired by a lyric or beat
- Ask someone new for feedback on your writing and use it to revise.
- Write about an image you like at the “hot” section of JPG Magazine
- Use in a story/poem: week, cilantro, heat
- Try It Friday: bizarro fairy tale
- Set a scene in a bar. One character receives the wrong drink.
- Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
- Use the following words: floating, dancing, boundary, storm, alive
- Write about (literal or figurative) blindness.
- Fill in the blank: “Everyone is ________ now.”
- Something left behind… on purpose
- Read an online journal. Inspired? Bookmark and start writing instead!
- Write about what’s in the light as well as the shadow.
- Use in a story/poem: inspire, share, knot