- Create a brand-new character today.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: approach, road, tablet, spare, constant
- Write about something the wrong color for its surroundings.
- Fill in the blank: “This is the way we ______ now.” (bonus points for using a noun in the blank)
- Include a nonsense song lyric.
- Use these words: gold, reverie, jewel, coffin, mermaids.
- Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn’t.
- Introduce a character named Lykos Holgersen.
- A date that will live in infamy.
- Write about amusement.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: walked, thick, damage, destiny, further.
- Write about a hiding place.
- Write about whiskey.
- Use the phrase: “the wizard cries.”
- Write about waiting for someone or something.
- Use these words: secret, garden, moon, snow, fireflies.
- It’s all about holding your mouth right.
- Write with a pen or pencil today.
- Write about a checkerboard.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: border, spent, recognize, grown, nostalgia
- Use the phrase, “I imagine I made your day.”
- Write about putting off a decision.
- A child repeatedly asking “Why?”
- Write about earning a necessary qualification.
- Same idea; all the details are different.
- Use the phrase: “rhetorical moves.”
- Sun comes up the day after the end of the world.
- Write about making do with less.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: sound, watched, twirl, lover, crescendo.
- Write about a sudden transformation.
- Use the phrase, “you have me at a disadvantage.”
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” -Oscar Wilde
- an unhappy holiday.
- Write about desertion.
- Leftovers.
- Use these words: sea, pearl, glass, oppression, fractured.
- That’s it! You’re done!
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: remember, tinkerer, hooked, dishonest, sensibly. Bonus: swooned.
- Include the line, “I am haunted by humans.”
- Write a middle, an end, and a beginning, not necessarily in that order.
- No one to kiss at midnight, except…
Category Archives: WP 2012
December 2012
November 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- “Left, Right, Left, Left, Left, Left…”
- What are you waiting for?
- “Two, counting them both that is.”
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: massive, spirit, arms, fatalistic, longer.
- Write about someone wearing a uniform.
- “I know the innkeeper.” and/or “That might or might not be a good thing.”
- Listen to the sound of a pen scratching on paper.
- Start a journal for a specific topic or project.
- “Film at 11.”
- Select 5 objects in your house. Put them together in a scene/story.
- If Friday’s not the 13th, are both of them bad luck?
- You quit your job to travel. Write about where you’ll go.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: decades, money, relied, influencing, night
- Write about a celebration.
- Fill in the blanks: “Why is there a _____ in your _____?”
- Use these words: Frankenstein, subtext, peacock, iridescent, bubbles.
- Someone knows uncannily too much about you.
- Start with the topic of today’s featured article at Wikipedia.
- Doing something familiar in an unusual setting.
- Writing a novel this month? Include yourself as a minor character.
- “I’m not translating that.”
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: cracks, build, track, deeply, grand
- Fill in the blank: “I’ll miss ______ most of all.”
- Write about a distinctive piece of clothing.
- “Let there be… well, not light exactly.”
- Write about a book that was given to you or your MC.
- Everyone else has things to do, people to see.
- Write about a historical event.
- Turning three pages instead of one.
- Use these words: jingle, astronaut, mathematics, simplicity, razor.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: fingers, carried, after, survival, amber.
- Use the phrase, “I think that should fit.”
- Write about interrupting something important for something trivial.
- Start with any topic that’s trending on Twitter right now.
- “Can this be over now?”
- Opposite day! Have your MC do the opposite of what they ordinarily would.
- Compare a problem to pulling out long-running roots of weeds.
- Try drawing a scene you’re stuck on (don’t worry about what it looks like!).
October 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- “We’re *finally* done with September.”
- Interview yourself.
- “Well, we’re legal here, but on the other side of the border…”
- Start with: “things I am afraid to tell you…”
- It seems to be broken.
- Take your laptop or notebook to a public place & write about what you see.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: twisting, lungs, major, gripped, mercurial.
- Write about breaking something down into its component parts.
- “I’m the kind of friend who only gets in touch when I want something.”
- Write a review of the last book you read.
- “Nobody volunteered to do it.”
- a real estate project uncovers a midden.
- Describe the shape of a pain.
- What’s in your toolbox?
- Remember to breathe.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: warned, inventing, sheen, lingering, personal
- “Oh. I should think up a ______.” (Fill in the blank.)
- Write about discovering that you’re missing something that you thought you had.
- A content-free e-mail message.
- Sign: EVERYTHING MUST GO. EVEN THE FIXTURES.
- Can’t sleep; clowns will eat me.
- Start with: “When I’m writing, I feel _________.”
- “I need it by the 19th.”
- a vintage tea tin with something unexpected inside.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: flutter, mother, massaged, portion, small.
- Use the phrase, “You think that’s a good idea?”
- Write about developing a recipe or other procedure.
- Go for a walk. Take 10 photos. Write a story about them.
- She said/she said.
- Write about your non-writing passion(s).
- Describe a living space in the corner of a warehouse.
- Describe the Bizarro version of yourself.
- Write about that other personality you’re hiding.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: first, control, earthquakes, bell, infected.
- toxicfur: Your character is too tired to care about [fill in the blank]
- Xore: Your character wakes up and realizes someone else is moving around in the next room.
- bo: Rewrite a previous section in the passive, being sure to use clear passive markers, such as “… by zombies”
- sabeth: Write about something that can’t be predicted.
- bob: A foul smell.
- ana: Fill in the blank: “Nobody expects _____.”
- “Let’s go find out.”
- Start with: “right now…” or “currently…”
- “Man up!” “I’m not actually a man.”
September 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- Start your Mini-Nano! Write 167 words today.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: beneath, restlessly, stopped, deeper, talking.
- Write about something with several layers.
- Write about ordinary obnoxiousness.
- Shopping for school supplies.
- Write about discouragement.
- Setting: a house decorated in all-white.
- “What about me?”
- A character finds an old diary.
- The anniversary of an unfortunate event.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: peculiar, patches, explorations, night, common.
- Write about doing something awkwardly.
- Write about loving something that’s bad for you (or for someone else).
- “They said nothing good would come from _____”
- A ferry ride on a foggy morning.
- A baker’s dozen.
- Start with a line from a book you disliked.
- “What if today were only Thursday?”
- The scene: a power lunch. Describe the people at the table.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: spring, taught, drowned, motion, extraordinarily.
- Write about the left hand of something that has no hands.
- Have a character say something out loud that’s usually written instead.
- Make an inspiration board for your current project.
- A really nice pair of slippers.
- Write about something discarded.
- “It will be here within the hour.”
- Stocking up on firewood for winter.
- “I can see it. Why can’t you see it?”
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: adults, stars, until, slowly, stymied.
- Write about miscalculating how long something will take.
- Write about doing something because nobody else is doing it.
- Talking aloud to an inanimate object.
- Start a journal (paper or blog) in your MC’s voice.
- “Better finish your breakfast. It’s almost dinner time.”
- A trip around the world.
- Not as many beds as people.
- A tiny, isolated cottage in the woods.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: spoke, number, another, concerned, dressed
- Use the phrase, “More confused than usual.”
- Fill in the blanks: “which is why _______ does not ________.”
August 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: light, however, settle, wanted, flutter.
- Write about destroying something to make way for another thing.
- Fill in the blank: “It’s different for _____.”
- A mother cat with kittens.
- Go to an office supply store + buy a small item that inspires you to write.
- Use the following words: textbook, prickling, diddle, unlink, grandioso.
- The reflection of one building on the glass wall of another.
- A character who has the kind of job only movie characters have.
- A nun who is a teacher.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: remembered, vertical, muck, picked, moment.
- Write about doing something for someone they could do for themselves.
- Fill in the blank: “I freely admit I’m a ________.”
- Coincidence? I think not.
- A major announcement in a short tweet.
- What do you mean, you can’t read my mind?
- I think you misread that.
- Can’t find coffee in a strange kitchen in the morning.
- Animal bites.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: raised, however, stars, orchestra, mantra.
- Use the phrase “Her laughter was brittle.” (thanks to muse_prompts.dreamwidth.org)
- Write about something used improperly, or at the wrong time.
- Give another writer a compliment about their writing.
- A character who pretends to be a an architect.
- A room covered in peeling floral wallpaper.
- Sunlight through flower petals.
- Use the following words: doe, rosy, advertise, literatim, aslant.
- Your characters go on a picnic.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: reflect, buzzing, balance, space, season
- Tell about the time you didn’t.
- Use the phrase, “See you on the other side.”
- A bystander helping at an accident scene.
- It sounds happy, but with a dark undercurrent.
- Just in time, but for what, exactly?
- Trying to catch up after a vacation.
- “You take the dog.” “No, *you* take the dog.”
- “It seemed the best thing to do at the time.”
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: jacket, imperative, flaky, mixing, differences.
- Fill in the blanks: “like ____, but more/less _____”
- Write about finding courage in an unlikely place.
- Steal a sentence or paragraph from a piece of writing you’ve abandoned.
- A cold drink dripping with condensation.
July 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: light, however, settle, wanted, flutter.
- Write about destroying something to make way for another thing.
- Fill in the blank: “It’s different for _____.”
- A mother cat with kittens.
- Go to an office supply store + buy a small item that inspires you to write.
- Use the following words: textbook, prickling, diddle, unlink, grandioso.
- The reflection of one building on the glass wall of another.
- A character who has the kind of job only movie characters have.
- A nun who is a teacher.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: remembered, vertical, muck, picked, moment.
- Write about doing something for someone they could do for themselves.
- Fill in the blank: “I freely admit I’m a ________.”
- Coincidence? I think not.
- A major announcement in a short tweet.
- What do you mean, you can’t read my mind?
- I think you misread that.
- Can’t find coffee in a strange kitchen in the morning.
- Animal bites.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: raised, however, stars, orchestra, mantra.
- Use the phrase “Her laughter was brittle.” (thanks to muse_prompts.dreamwidth.org)
- Write about something used improperly, or at the wrong time.
- Give another writer a compliment about their writing.
- A character who pretends to be a an architect.
- A room covered in peeling floral wallpaper.
- Sunlight through flower petals.
- Use the following words: doe, rosy, advertise, literatim, aslant.
- Your characters go on a picnic.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: reflect, buzzing, balance, space, season
- Tell about the time you didn’t.
- Use the phrase, “See you on the other side.”
- A bystander helping at an accident scene.
- It sounds happy, but with a dark undercurrent.
- Just in time, but for what, exactly?
- Trying to catch up after a vacation.
- “You take the dog.” “No, *you* take the dog.”
- “It seemed the best thing to do at the time.”
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following five words: jacket, imperative, flaky, mixing, differences.
- Fill in the blanks: “like ____, but more/less _____”
- Write about finding courage in an unlikely place.
- Steal a sentence or paragraph from a piece of writing you’ve abandoned.
- A cold drink dripping with condensation.
June 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- A vintage silver Mercedes.
- He left a $100 tip for a $6 meal.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: hill, danced, entire, rather, makes.
- Is the glass half empty or half full?
- Fill in the blank: “Give somebody 35 seconds and they’ll just naturally think of _________.”
- The life of a window washer.
- Explore the notion of entropy.
- Sea foam like beer from a tap.
- Wind whistled through the needles of the pine trees.
- “Look me in the eyes.”
- Sunflowers transformed her kitchen.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: abuse, thin, truth, points, elements
- Write about not following conventional wisdom.
- Fill in the blank: “Go ________ yourself.”
- Her hair and skin were greasy with oil, her bare feet bloody.
- The grin died on his mouth.
- Three helicopters hovering like insects to the sun.
- Create a story with the setting as the main character.
- His face was lost in thought.
- “I think we’ve had the same conductor punch our tickets.”
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: child, clinging, first, black, newly.
- Write about something that was once alive.
- Use a quotation from another character of your own.
- Faint morning sunlight slipping through the window.
- Food was abundant, fresh water scarce.
- Three broken vases.
- Use a fern, a red baloon and pearl earrings in a short story or poem.
- Her pessimism about the world evaporated.
- Describe a strange museum.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: wild, burnt, go, time, whip
- Write about a piece of bad advice.
- Fill in the blank: “the end of _____ as we know it.”
- “He has the personality of an earthworm.”
- A character who is widowed three times in succession.
- A ________ built out of Lego.
- Volunteer your writing skills to help someone else.
- Water droplets on a leaf.
- Exiled for one’s politics.
May 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- Finding your parents in a compromising position.
- Describe your favorite food.
- Taking a picture of yourself for the internet.
- Base a story on a news headline.
- An armed escort.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: combination, song, entrance, heat, hanging
- Use a phrase in a foreign language.
- Write about a piece of nostalgia from two decades ago.
- Use three words with more than 8 letters.
- Listen to some music from a non-English speaking country.
- Write an accent.
- The view from the back seat, middle, of the car.
- Write a dialog scene using only quotes from movies.
- A very small surprise that makes a big difference.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: brown, swaying, massive, swell, moment.
- Write about a mirror or other polished/reflective surface.
- Use the phrase “better than fighting with the vacuum.”
- A wild weather event.
- A foggy path.
- Beware the Ides of… May?.
- Tell a story involving an animal and your writing.
- Change the color in a common phrase, e.g. “Green as night”
- Sleeping in on a Saturday.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: cigarette, seemed, amongst, mercurial, stomach.
- Write an interior monologue.
- Use a made-up expletive.
- Use the following words: passage, unrestricted, busk, coastwise, outasight.
- Imagine you’re a songwriter & write the track list for your first album.
- Prep your writing space the night before.
- Your characters move to a commune.
- Still life with old books.
- Shake up your writing routine: write by hand instead of typing or vice versa.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: river, close, bats, inside, increased
- Write about something that’s black and white.
- Use the phrase “the future is …”
- Use these words: connector, wrenching, counterweight, overtired, capriccioso.
- Canoeing in the Olympics.
- An express train.
- A character who practices alchemy.
April 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: Diagonal, stopped, circle, rising, Swiss.
- Write about a map (real or metaphorical).
- Write about new energy for the spring—April fuels.
- The gray tones of winter gave way to a gentle tide of green
- A restaurant with its own herb garden.
- The glint of light on broken glass
- He considered a woman running barefoot sexy.
- A day in the life of a trolley car driver.
- The dusk purpled our room.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: know, roof, quick, crowd, discarded
- Write about a childhood nightmare.
- Write about an increase in temperature.
- He moved like a flash of light.
- She enjoyed the sensation of fear.
- Three large motorcycles parked in front of a bar.
- A backpack tucked underneath an azalea bush.
- A character with an unusual style of beard/mustache.
- A freshly sharpened pencil.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: flakes, floor, future, front, filled
- Write about two or more people doing something in unison.
- Incorporate a famous quote from a movie or TV show.
- A character with poor table manners.
- A set of nesting bowls.
- A field of tulips.
- A character must make a choice. Write the scene two different ways.
- Start with the lyrics to a popular song & turn them into a story.
- Find a nice place to sit & think about your WIP for 15-30 min. Then write!.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: repeat, through, college, kamikaze, breeze.
- Fill in the blanks: “Never ______ with a _____”.
- Use the phrase (thx Neil Gaiman) “Events are cowards. They run in packs.”
- Write the same scene in 1st, 2nd & 3rd person.
- The perfect day job for a writer is…
- Start with a line from a favorite poem.
- Imagine winning a writing award. Outline the steps you’ll take to get there.
- Record yourself reading your work aloud. Listen to it, then revise.
- Put on a silly hat and/or pair of shoes. Now write!
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: absorb, lines, welcoming, anger, bends
- Write about creating a monster.
- Write about two options that are bad for different reasons.
- Go write in an unusual location.
March 2012
Daily Writing Prompts
- Use a current popular song as a prompt.
- Click the link and pick a photo to write about.
- Failing health.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: silver, factory, house, guess, ancient
- Use the phrase “I thought it was extinct.”
- Fill in the blank: “I’ve been ______ my whole life.”
- Watching a kitten play with string.
- Miscommunication of quantitative information.
- The next layer of subtlety.
- Getting a hand-out. OR Moving away.
- Going without something important.
- Unexpected visit from an old friend.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following five words: well, slide, welcoming, cicadas, lips.
- Write about counting (or a Count)
- Use the phrase, “Speaking of apocalypses…”
- Collision between two parts of a character’s life.
- “Tell me why.”
- “That color is not on the rainbow.”
- Beware the Ides of March.
- Sandals in the snow.
- Look up “synecdoche” and use one.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter.
- Use the following words: mixing, destination, slowly, reached, often.
- aethycyn: Add a breakfast food.
- Sue: whooping cough, potting soil, killer, amazed and cinnamon
- bo: In honour of Rush Limbaugh: write about (a) wearsluts and/or (b) bewaresluts
- ana: Use the phrase “pretend for an hour life made sense.” (Thanks to NC Weil)
- toxicfur: In honor of Sir Terry Pratchett, use the following phrases: “tincture of night” and “soup of the afternoon”
- Bob: “Piddle and payment don’t go together.”
- devtrash: Write about waking up in an empty hotel pool, bloodied and bruised.
- finishing what you start… or not.
- peeking at what someone’s reading on their ereader.
- Spring clean your writing space.
- Try a different genre or medium.
- Write about a yearning for something.
- Focus on the present year, month, week, day, hour, moment.
- Get today’s Sunday brunch prompts at Twitter
- Use the following words: raining, anticipation, hummed, stop, pursue
- Write about a recycled hat.
- Use the phrase, “On the next day, …”
- Describe your imagined audience.
- Steal the title of an existing book & use it as a starting point.
- Go to Wikipedia, click ‘random article’ & write about that topic.
- Be inspired by a non-writing activity you like to do.
- Being too cold or too hot.
- Out like a lamb.