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February 2010
Daily Writing Prompts

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  1. A door clicked open above them.
  2. He said he’d come at moonrise.
  3. After the accident she was afraid to drive.
  4. “I play pool best when Rod Stewart is playing on the juke box”
  5. Chickadees and sparrows arguing over bird seed.
  6. They took bets on when the icicle would totally melt.
  7. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: dangerous, eight, watched, stranger, choice
    2. Write about the change in someone as he or she gets started working.
    3. Fill in the blanks: “a ______ in a sea of _________”
  8. She collected journals, but never wrote in them.
  9. Little quivers of excitement, like tiny springs uncoiling into spirals.
  10. She stood in the middle of the room, cool and silent, looking at him.
  11. Write an homage to a departed loved one.
  12. Explore the notion of “the essential androgyny of the creative mind.”
  13. A scallop-shell holding ovoids of blue and violet soap.
  14. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: sorry, family, gadget, seemed, particularly.
    2. Write about watching something happening while being powerless to affect the outcome.
    3. Write about missing an important ingredient or part of a story.
  15. He might as well have kicked the side of a mountain.
  16. The three stages of a man’s life: puberty, adolescence and adultery.
  17. A pair of very soft, glistening black shoes.
  18. Crossing the border was easy.
  19. A kerosene lamp, a cello, and a paint brush.
  20. “Everyone should have at least one sock monkey.”
  21. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: cardboard, unfamiliar, local, castle, gleaming. Alternate words: window, walls, funky, ceremonial, actually.
    2. Write about talking to an inanimate object.
    3. Fill in the blank: “when _____ was younger.”
  22. He hadn’t brushed his teeth in seventeen days.
  23. The abstract painting changed in the shifting light.
  24. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One..
  25. She quit her job as a school teacher and became a private detective.
  26. His senses were assaulted by the conflicting scented candles.
  27. “How can I live without popcorn?”
  28. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: missing, table, future, paper, legend
    2. Write about an imperfect reflection.
    3. Write about restraint(s).

January 2010
Daily Writing Prompts

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A Pen In Each Hand

  1. Passing a woman with short white-blond hair and a cabled scarf.
  2. He takes out his phone in mid conversation and holds up a finger
  3. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: forgive, destroy, strengthen, finding, turned
    2. Write about an unexpected chore.
    3. Write about a pair of something.
  4. Use in a story: gamble, shuffle and applaud
  5. “Did you turn it down?” “I turned it off.”
  6. A shield with an image of an eagle and the number 8
  7. She feared balloons but she bought the helium tank anyway
  8. It would ruin the mood but he had to say it
  9. Set a story in an amusement park at dusk
  10. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: could, dozen, bartender, about, trust..
    2. Write about being functionally illiterate.
    3. Write about someone discovering his or her destiny.
  11. Use in a story: accept, kick, linger
  12. “Love isn’t something you can extinguish like a flame.”
  13. Each table sat 12 people, even the singles table in the back
  14. His office furniture was made of Brazilian rosewood
  15. She plays professional poker and her sister is a puzzle writer
  16. Technology in the wrong hands… for the right reason
  17. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: directed, mouth, once, parking, advice.
    2. Write about being reminded of a promise.
    3. Write about an exotic substance.
  18. She awakens to a blinking pink light and the smell of juniper
  19. A leaf blown by the wind settles on a frozen pond
  20. “I’m doing this to eat, not to make great art.”
  21. He wasn’t an Elvis man but he chose A18 on the jukebox
  22. They arrive at the cabin with three grocery bags and a pair of fishing poles
  23. “I didn’t say I didn’t like it. But you shouldn’t be wearing a bikini here.”
  24. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: found, quickly, everything, oceans, metal
    2. Write about accidental efficiency.
    3. Write about resurrecting an unused skill.
  25. It looks like it’s made of marble but it’s really made of wood
  26. She can’t believe it but there it is on a 20-foot screen for all to see
  27. Bill’s gone for a midnight snack
  28. Springsteen tickets, a six pack and a dozen red roses
  29. The game required a ping pong ball, a pack of matches and a blindfold
  30. Use in a story: replicate, anger, dominate
  31. Do the Sunday Brunch prompts and post your exercises
    1. Use the following words: wedding, metal, crashed, curly, amused.
    2. Write about two apparently conflicting statements.
    3. Write about seeing something invisible.