- Write about saying “Rabbit, Rabbit” first thing on the first of the month.
- Use these 5 words: dashing, announce, punishment, kick, charge.
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- Use the following five words: flaming, hat, republic, believing, finite.
- Write about unintended consequences.
- Use the phrase, “Honey, I’m home.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “The future is hopeless.”
- Write about someone being braver than they thought possible.
- Include a character who spends an impressive amount of time asleep.
- Exchanging loving glances with an animal.
- Use these 5 words: redundant, stiff, smoggy, mark, complete.
- Waiting for the first storm of the season to begin
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- Use the following five words: Fog, hands, crossing, every, corner.
- Write about expecting something that’s late.
- Use the phrase, “I feel much better now.”
- Use the phrase “Over my dead body.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Just a pain in the ass, basically.”
- Write about re-examining the most basic assumptions.
- Scenario: a famous kidnapping.
- Waking up after a medical procedure
- Use these 5 words: airport, hard-to-find, fireman, gorgeous, dead.
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- Use the following five words: comrade, mighty, morsel, crawling, expansion.
- Write about making an introduction.
- Use the phrase, “preaching to the choir.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Try getting more sleep.”
- Use the phrase “This is not what it looks like.”
- Include a character drowning in alcohol, snack food, and regret.
- How to spend the longest night of the year.
- Use these 5 words: racial, seal, labored, frame, selective.
- Write about beginning a long retreat in solitude.
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- Write about something awesomely wonderful.
- Use this line: “You have to be grown up & responsible. You have to.”
- “On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…”
- Include a character who is desperately trying.
- Waiting for breakfast to be served.
- Use this line: “A donation has been made in your name to the Human Fund.”
- Get today’s prompts on Twitter.
Category Archives: WP 2017
December 2017
November 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
Trying not to notice the ex’s birthday
- Use these 5 words: drain, smelly, girl, road, onerous.
- Use the phrase “Tell me some lies”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Try to lose the idea that you are cursed.”
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- Use the following five words: derelict, complete, empathic, barnburner, flytrap.
- Fill in the blanks: “_______ without ______ is like a day without sunshine.”
- Use the phrase, “Sorry I hung up on you.”
- Include a character who has a very hard time making decisions.
- Write about the one that got away.
- Use these 5 words: invention, train, fearless, note, cherries.
- Bus passenger wearing pajamas.
- Use this line: “This is probably so pretentious & self-indulgent…”
- The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
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- Use the following five words: disrupt, loser, horses, loyal, belongings.
- Write about waiting for the clock to strike.
- Use the phrase, “obviously it’s left-handed.”
- Doing improper things in public.
- Scenario: someone yells profanities at your MC and runs away.
- Character gets a vanity license plate for their car.
- Use these 5 words: mitten, existence, fair, yielding, absorbed.
- Use the phrase “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
- Use this line: “I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.”
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- Use the following five words: honorary, ash, coincidence, collapsing, gutter.
- Write about a windy day.
- Use the phrase, “It was fun, I guess.”
- Include a character who writes as badly as she dresses.
- Invent some teenage slang for your dialog
- Use these 5 words: side, apparel, railway, visit, dynamic.
- “Everybody knows that. It’s not true.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “It’s hard to know what babies think.”
- Contemplating dropping out, running away
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- Use the following five words: drill, riot, expose, swarm, blinding.
- Write about humor based on someone’s name.
- Use the phrase, “I never would have thought of that.”
- Waking up to a strange noise
- Include a character who dreams of becoming a horse.
- Write about a crowded airport waiting room.
- Use this line of dialogue: “I shared too much. I want all my secrets back.”
October 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
- Get today’s prompts on Twitter.
- Use the following five words: unrequited, knees, battle, roads, grunts.
- Write about a dreaded and frustrating task.
- Write about a question that cannot be answered truthfully.
- Use these 5 words: bubble, seat, walk, innate, ambiguous.
- What happens in October, stays in October.
- Use this line of dialogue: “Honey, you’ll handle it.”
- Write about an unhappy dog.
- Scenario: a planet of teenage girls, and they’re the only people there.
- Use the phrase “How swiftly we forget.”
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- Use the following five words: meanness, start, scribbling, stairs, shame.
- Write about a clerk remembering your character’s name.
- Use the phrase, “Tell me some lies.”
- A typo gives a profound insight
- Use these 5 words: comfortable, afford, inject, common, gun.
- A holiday happens unexpectedly
- Use this line of dialogue: “People are worried about me.”
- Include a character who’s lucky on Friday the 13th.
- Include a character whose friends are all stupid.
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- Use the following five words: floors, boxes, confession, corner, twisted.
- Write about finding something extra or unintended.
- Fill in the blank, “Coming soon, to a _______ near you.”
- Use these 5 words: grin, trees, cloudy, arrive, sister.
- Doing that one little thing before lunch.
- Use this line of dialogue: “Look, there are cows!”
- Feeling the sleep coming for you.
- Scenario: a short time is left, and there’s still so much to do.
- Write about mud.
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- Use the following five words: marry, gaunt, rest, really, private.
- Write about missing a holiday celebration.
- Fill in the blank, “Do you really want to _______?”
- Showing up at the wrong time for a meeting.
- Use these 5 words: flat, concerned, elastic, downtown, materialistic.
- A group experience without timepieces.
- Use this line of dialogue: “It doesn’t go away.”
- Hearing snow shovels in the summer
- It’s not strangers who are scary; it’s the people you think you know.
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- Use the following five words: object, crazy, wealthy, bait, grim.
- Fill in the blank: “_______ o’clock and all’s well.”
- Use the phrase, “Tell me a story.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Breathe. You’re going to be ok.”
- Disagreement over holiday activities
September 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
- Remembering the first day of school, years later.
- Use these 5 words: obedient, yummy, sweet, wild, spring.
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- Use the following five words: midnight, surface, which, glazed, destination.
- Write about commemorating an unhappy event.
- Use this phrase: “Is there more?”
- Use this line of dialogue: “People never really grow up.”
- A complicated checklist
- Include a character who hates to be around people or touch them.
- “I remember the look in her eyes.”
- Use these 5 words: look, sneeze, plastic, zesty, acceptable.
- An unexpected rain storm
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- Use the following five words: policemen, poetry, crossing, without, screams.
- Write about overdosing on news coverage.
- Use this phrase: “It could be entertaining.”
- Conversation blocks a doorway
- Use this line of dialogue: “Put on some pants.”
- Forgetting the reason for coming to the kitchen
- Scenario: a parrot that speaks Spanish.
- Bringing unusual food to an event
- Use these 5 words: guitar, mighty, abnormal, inquisitive, worried.
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- Use the following five words: midnight, friends, place, pledge, rest.
- Use some misunderstood song lyrics.
- Write about a sweaty job.
- Use this line of dialogue: “What do we have to gain from even trying?”
- Long overdue refrigerator cleaning
- Include a character who eats grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner each night
- Write about balancing eggs on the equinox
- Use these 5 words: soggy, smiling, fine, interest, frequent.
- Bonding with a stranger over witnessing an event
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- Use the following five words: eating, south, synthesis, poems, stained.
- Write about the smell of a new book.
- Use the phrase, “Don’t you have something more important to do?”
- Day’s work done before 10AM
- Use this line of dialogue: “First, you look ridiculous.”
- Putting something back together again.
- Don’t make plans; just write.
- “If you want something done, ask somebody who’s busy.”
- Say the truth you’re carrying in your heart like a hidden treasure.
August 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
Write about a store closing
- Use these 5 words: laborer, advice, continue, shallow, hair.
- The weather’s fine… here.
- Use this line of dialogue: “Shut up and move on.”
- The computer makes a rude noise
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- Calling someone who’s un-dude-like “Dude”
- Scenario: weird and horrible things keep happening.
- The backup disk is unreadable
- Use these 5 words: base, light, apathetic, observant, free.
- Seeking an alternate route
- Use this line of dialogue: “Better not to think too hard about this.”
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- Use the following five words: beyond, pianos, synthesis, killed, toadstools.
- Write about waking up at 3am to worry.
- Use this phrase: “You come by your competitive streak naturally.”
- Include a character who wears the same thing for eight weeks in a row.
- Is it Friday yet?
- Use these 5 words: rule, nosy, tearful, cumbersome, sun.
- A letter that’s never sent
- Use this line of dialogue: “One or both of our parents are crazy.”
- Waiting for the caffeine to take effect
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- Can’t find good help.
- Scenario: everyone is dressed and made up like cats.
- “How hard can it be?”
- Use these 5 words: pathetic, rambunctious, hope, spiritual, even.
- “Do you like what you’re seeing?”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Quesadillas are delicious.”
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- Use the following five words: crowd, crossing, husband, dismantle, earth.
- Write about answering without any words.
- Use this phrase: “But wait, there’s more!”
- You’re weird, but everyone is weird.
- “Could you scratch my back?”
- The happy ending is just moving on.
- It’s not taking as long as they said.
July 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
- Every single day.
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- Write about the weather 6 months ago.
- Use these 5 words: sloppy, book, carpenter, macabre, tomatoes.
- Everything has to work at the same time.
- Use this line of dialogue: “Explain what the letters mean.”
- Write about a former friend’s birthday.
- Include a brainy and frazzled woman who is at the end of her wits.
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- Use these 5 words: collect, approval, narrow, brush, tasteful.
- “I don’t need to do that just yet.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Well, no. I’m not doing that.”
- Accidentally helping the cat catch a bird.
- Scenario: a character almost gets hit by a cabbage.
- “Is it my turn again already?”
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- “You’re odder than odd.”
- Use these 5 words: tiger, fold, order, parched, wet.
- “If we try, we can finish by lunchtime.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Oh, God, it’s Monday.”
- Use this: “All it takes is an hour and a 5-gallon bucket.”
- Include a character who wants to do good things & to feel loved.
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- Use these 5 words: ugliest, old, scientific, advise, energetic.
- Missing the most obvious questions on a test.
- Use this line of dialogue: “How have we come to such ruin?”
- A surprise party that isn’t surprising.
- Real isn’t always the same as interesting.
- Practicing while the group/team is on break.
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- “So hot the pets act like they’re melting.”
June 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
- “You’re still missing her, aren’t you?”
- Use these 5 words: disagreeable, kind, check, resonant, shut.
- An elaborate excuse
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- Use the following five words: windy, observe, synthesis, corner, floors.
- Write about an unsent letter.
- Use the phrase, “It seems like that’s a wise decision.”
- “I’ve done my part. It’s your turn now.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “It’s just hard to know what to do with her.”
- “This really is about me, isn’t it?”
- Scenario: three sons who tend to ruin family events.
- Last day of school, years ago now.
- Use these 5 words: modern, match, unbiased, stamp, willing.
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- Use this line of dialogue: “Now please leave.”
- Smother them in kindness.
- Include a character who chugs booze like water & weeps like a broken faucet.
- Don’t want to celebrate a birthday
- Use these 5 words: humdrum, plane, form, reminiscent, lame.
- What to cook, with what’s in the cupboard
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- Use the following five words: unrequited, attempted, all, fading, dismantle.
- Write about a chipped stone.
- Use the phrase, “I know I shouldn’t, but…”
- Long ago, on this date…
- Use this line of dialogue: “Let’s be nice to the old man.”
- An astronomical coincidence.
- Scenario: a blood-soaked patch of ground.
- I once knew how to do this.
- Use these 5 words: tax, books, coal, deserted, learned.
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- Use the following five words: open, gaunt, beats, sweep, public.
- Write about a party.
- Fill in the blank: “Counting down the seconds until _______.”
- Use this line: “Just because they’re dead doesn’t mean they’re not here.”
- “I understood this, before we traded places.”
- A CYOA where no matter which path your MC chooses someone always dies.
- It always ends in tears.
- Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt.
May 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
- “Mayday! Mayday!”
- Use these 5 words: nice, apparatus, need, lunch, private.
- The person who used to do that is gone now.
- Use this line of dialogue: “Who wants to have some fun?”
- Birthday of a departed loved one.
- Include a character who thinks pigeons are spying on them.
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- Use the following five words: whispering, madman, attempted, boxes, ourselves.
- Write about getting something free.
- Use the phrase, “spectacular failure.”
- Use these 5 words: acid, garrulous, scorch, lowly, ducks.
- “No, it’s still not dinnertime.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “It’s just hard to know what to do with her.”
- The roar of the lawn mower
- Scenario: death, from raccoon.
- Distinction turns on a missing diacritical mark
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- Use the following five words: border, husband, boxes, confession, prisoners.
- Write about the big one that got away.
- Use the phrase, “We shouldn’t.”
- Hot flashes and chills.
- Use these 5 words: amused, squeamish, whispering, thank, live.
- “How long have we been doing this?”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Well, this is silly. I feel fine.”
- Write about autocorrect gone wrong
- Include a character who is unkempt but cheerful.
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- Use the following five words: walls, degradation, understand, where, sights.
- Write about paying too much for something that’s not useful.
- Use the phrase, “half past July.”
- Use these 5 words: little, hose, animal, reply, gamy.
- “Latch the door when you leave.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Oh, your dad’s so cool.”
- It looks like a good thing, but it’s really not.
- Get nose to nose with your pet and talk to them.
- A chance meeting
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- Use the following five words: rhapsody, wheel, nothing, stiff, marry.
- Write about that first, unexpected, sunburn of the season.
- Use the phrase, “Not fooling around.”
- “You checked that they’re getting there, right?”
- She never looked nice; she looked like art.
- Counting down to… what, exactly?
April 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
- Fill in: “April snowshowers bring May _____”
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- Use the following five words: pool, unrequited, silent, casting, spring.
- Write about a mnemonic device that doesn’t work.
- Use the phrase, “Reminiscent of Belgians.”
- An unusual snack.
- Use these 5 words: mysterious, mature, north, melted, plant.
- An unfortunate auto-correction.
- Use this line of dialogue: “This tastes like fresh dirt.”
- Bureaucratic runaround
- Scenario: an odd, welcome intruder in your MC’s brain.
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- Use the following five words: downstairs, sign, lashed, sale, orange.
- Write about recovering from an illness or injury.
- Use the phrase, “perfect record.”
- Use these 5 words: nest, remarkable, smash, skinny, carve.
- “What are you adding to the process?”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Can I just tell you guys all my secrets?”
- A book that hasn’t been opened in 100 years.
- Include a character whose veneer briefly cracks to reveal loneliness & fear.
- Person always makes the same arithmetic mistake.
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- Use the following five words: Sunday, mouse, plum, watch, stamp.
- Write about a flash of mercy.
- Use the phrase, “Already with four …”
- Misheard song lyrics
- Use these 5 words: hurt, grass, capricious, supply, painstaking.
- A very subtle hint.
- Use this line of dialogue: “That’s not how any of this works.”
- “That happened in March last year.”
- Scenario: most of the time, everything is perfectly normal. But sometimes…
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- Use the following five words: agony, moves, persons, forever, juicy.
- Write about landscaping or yard work.
- Use the phrase, “how quaint.”
- Use these 5 words: jump, nostalgic, safe, purring, appreciate.
- Strange circumstances seem normal to one character.
- Use this line of dialogue: “Just throw everything away.”
- A dog’s “You gonna eat that?” look.
- Avoid a happy ending.
- What should the “no clue” button do?
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- Use the following five words: feet, famine, sooner, poems, neglected.
- Write about the third time not being charming at all.
- Use the phrase, “That’s a place I never want to go.”
March 2017
Daily Writing Prompts
Write about a stand-up desk.
- Use these 5 words: unadvised, cross, tick, equable, groovy.
- Write about talking past each other.
- Use this line of dialogue: “People in _____ don’t know anything.”
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- Use the following five words: appear, author, really, smooth, workings.
- Write about watching someone in the morning sun.
- Use the phrase, “That’s not what they told me should happen next.”
- Include a character with no friends and no money.
- Choosing to ignore sound advice.
- Use these 5 words: lovely, cooing, tart, queue, absurd.
- “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adulthood.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Grown-ups ruin everything.”
- Trying not to whine, and failing.
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- Use the following five words: pledge, fatalistic, screams, chair, poem.
- Write about being awakened at midnight.
- Use the phrase, “It’s been a day.”
- Negotiating a working schedule
- Scenario: the moon explodes and the dead return to life.
- Beware the Ides of March!
- Use these 5 words: zealous, bow, slimy, unequaled, please.
- Something embarrassing from your MC’s past is discovered.
- Use this line of dialogue: “I have to ask: what is the point?”
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- Use the following five words: observe, invent, broken, done, eating.
- Write about deciding what to leave behind.
- Use the phrase, “That’ll be inconvenient.”
- Include a character who is only going through the motions of being alive.
- Make up something that only happens on the equinox.
- Use these 5 words: jumbled, truculent, dust, trace, loaf.
- “Sorry; I had to take a work break.”
- Use this line of dialogue: “Will you please go and study?”
- Where a message goes when you press “send”
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- Use the following five words: telephone, which, sailors, thought, burst.
- Write about running out of coffee.
- Use the phrase, “I never know what I want.”
- “There’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back.”
- Start with: Here are a few things to argue about…
- What happens after you walk away.
- Use this line of dialogue: “She doesn’t know when to stop giving.”
- Why do April fools get their own special day?