- Write in a dialect not your own.
- Set your story in a medical research laboratory
- Write about a book club.
- Start with this line: We will fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: confession, pony, welcome, distant, elect.
- Use the phrase, “Is that the beer talking?”
- Write about walking away from something familiar.
- Write about a violation of policy
- Write about being at sea in a storm.
- Write about a betrayal
- Write about the Little People.
- Start with this line: She’s jealous of people who live in California.
- Write about waiting for the mail to come.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: detector, variety, directory, light, corn.
- Use the phrase, “justify the expense.”
- Write about an expected surprise.
- Write about using an old calendar.
- Write about a video conference call incident
- Write about waiting in the cold.
- Start with this line: I may not have all of the facts but…
- Use the phrase, “What I should have done.”
- Write about baking a pie
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: district, cottage, relation, steel, genuine.
- Fill in the blank, “Cheap _____ is not worth the money.”
- Write about intentionally violating rules.
- Write about a meteor shower
- Write about something that can only happen on the solstice.
- Write about an artist’s process
- Write about a small child jumping up and down.
- Use these five words: veterans, additional, range, gamble, dynamic
- Write about staying up after midnight.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: death, parade, time, potential, public.
- Use the phrase, “Can you hear it?”
- Write about doing something other people thought impossible.
- Write about turning down dessert.
- Use these five words: perfectionism, unworthy, Emmy, B-roll, aesthetic
- Write about trying to resume after interruption.
- Start with this line: We are raffling off two tickets.
- Summarize last year’s writing. What can you do differently next year?
Category Archives: WP 2021
December 2021
November 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Write about waiting for the first winter storm.
- Start with this line: Stop crying!
- Write about an old stuffed animal toy.
- Use these five words: charmed, soldier, fishing, realist, beach
- Write about struggling with a computer.
- Use these five words: weekend, marches, surprising, weather, park
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: violation, understanding, quaint, husband, pole.
- Use the phrase, “I need help.”
- Write about losing an important item.
- Start with this line: The tsunami has been upgraded.
- Write about losing a shopping list.
- Start with this line: All the rats are leaving that sinking ship.
- Write about the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
- Start with this line: You dance like my mom.
- Write about looking through smudged glasses.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: benefit, treatment, embark, helmet, litigation.
- Use the phrase, “That’s not part of the celebration.”
- Write about things we no longer wear.
- Write about a mountain in the mist.
- Start with this line: The odds are stacked against us.
- Write about missing a quota.
- Start with this line: Well, that didn’t age well.
- Write about a dangerous intersection.
- Start with this line: I really want you to win.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: bike, meet, pill, gradient, manage.
- Use the phrase, “The world seems smaller.”
- Write about photographing a landscape.
- Use these five words: midnight, exposure, nothing, cheat, air
- Write about losing touch with a friend.
- Start with this line: I just wanted to say thank you for…
- Write about celebrating the wrong holiday.
- Use these five words: clinical, halt, unconscionable, debate, disrupting
- Write about a houseplant blooming.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: suspicion, admission, detective, joke, inspire.
- Use the phrase, “book of inspirational quotes.”
- Write about wrestling with technology.
- Set your story at a rehearsal.
- Use these five words: envoy, partners, affordability, heart, digital
October 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Use “You probably haven’t heard this.”
- Use these five words: agricultural, child, incredible, country, church
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: feeling, perforate, cottage, jungle, mislead.
- Use the phrase, “There was a person I knew.”
- Write about something done for healing purposes.
- Start with this line: I’m thrilled to announce…
- Use the phrase, “I’m not that good.”
- Start with this line: She would’ve made a great leader.
- Write about a flat tire.
- Set your story on a disastrous date
- Use the phrase “It’s been Saturday all week.”
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: waterfall, meeting, rescue, sword, occupation.
- Use the phrase, “It’s mostly fluff.”
- Write about making predictions.
- Write about missing a whole season.
- Set your story at a tiny wedding
- Your characters exchange a knock-knock joke.
- Write about a month of awareness
- Your character coins a word.
- Set your story in a cabin in the woods
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: biscuit, clash, policy, suffering, solve.
- Use the phrase, “Give or take.”
- Write about cancelling an event.
- Start with this line: We understand why you’re frustrated.
- Write about driving a train.
- Write about an uninvited guest
- Write about being bad at keeping secrets.
- Start with this line: My research led me down a rabbithole.
- Write about an interrupted routine.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: horseshoe, porter, glove, sea, spider.
- Use the phrase, “Make it fit in the box.”
- Write about making copies.
- Compare a child to their younger self.
- Start with this line: Would you like to join our team?
- Use “Blessed are the pessimists, for they shall have made backups.”
- Use these five words: animate, famous, rage, daughter, beautiful
- Write about visiting a former workplace.
- Set your story during a high-profile interview
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: canvas, skate, plaintiff, auditor, thinker.
- Use the phrase, “Which one is it?”
- Write about an absurd challenge.
September 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Write about weird traffic as evidence for a mishap.
- Use these five words: resigns, bungled, indigestible, record, dystopia
- Write about the sound of construction, far away.
- Start with this line: I’m convinced he’s allergic to…
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: position, forget, ostracize, timber, awful.
- Use the phrase, “The same old thing.”
- Write about figuring something out.
- Set your story in a treehouse
- Write about a holiday not shared by everyone present.
- Use these five words: creativity, scheduled, update, self-worth, lifelong
- Write about getting new glasses or lenses.
- Start with this line: They just hit rock bottom.
- Write about private mourning for a public event.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: girl, advance, corner, register, uncle.
- Use the phrase, “That’s ten times in the last week.”
- Write about dim memories of a similar situation.
- Write about something that makes no sense to the narrator.
- Write about a short film
- Write about obsessively sorting something that didn’t need it.
- Start with this line: If I’m being totally honest…
- Use the phrase, “We don’t have enough people to do that.”
- Start with this line: He’s trying to buy votes.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: breeze, salon, administration, remain, condition.
- Use the phrase, “Open it up.”
- Write about an automation failure.
- Use these five words: worried, staging, history, impressive, farmer
- Write about doing busy work until dinnertime.
- Set your story during a murder trial
- Your character writes a haiku.
- Set your story at a party with cupcakes
- Write about cracking knuckles before getting to work.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: aviation, explicit, insistence, manufacturer, charismatic.
- Use the phrase, “Was that tonight?”
- Write about being too tired to stay awake.
- Use the phrase, “Begin in the middle.”
- Start with this line: Who gets custody of _____?
- Use the phrase, “One last time.”
- Use these five words: processed, ambiguity, cemetery, quarters, packing
August 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: place, digital, iron, pumpkin, peanut.
- Use the phrase, “Expect heavy precipitation.”
- Write about merging cuisines from different places.
- Start with this line: The apocalypse is coming.
- Write about recovering from illness or injury.
- Set your story at a closed border
- Write about apologizing for being late.
- Write about a personal attack
- Write about watching a plume of smoke.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: plaster, perfume, argument, swell, conscious.
- Use the phrase, “That won’t work.”
- Write about trying to stay awake.
- Write about not apologizing for being late.
- Use these five words: stars, missing, nuclear, powerful, accident
- Write about missing deadlines.
- Use these five words: outage, classic, concert, trial, exchange
- Set your story on Friday the 13th.
- Set your story during a snowstorm
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: island, density, general, copy, sister.
- Use the phrase, “If it were reliable, it wouldn’t be magic.”
- Write about almost missing a deadline.
- Start with this line: She wants to be seen as something other than a mother.
- Write about a doctored recording.
- Write about something kept in cages
- Answer a child’s “That’s not fair!” complaint.
- Use these five words: superfans, behavioral, journalist, debate, airport
- Use “How does this thing work again?”
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: waiter, chew, magnitude, joint, population.
- Use the phrase, “It seems less noisy.”
- Write about an inconvenient modern technology.
- Write about a bad case of the Mondays
- Write about a well-deserved bath
- Write an incident in your character’s childhood.
- Use these five words: grifters, gravesite, befitting, defeat, network
- Write about not being able to come up with the right word.
- Use these five words: flashpoint, shortage, packing, cheers, fight
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: half, release, jewel, X-ray, double.
- Use the phrase, “How do we clean that?”
- Write about disobeying rules.
- Write about a great mystery
- Write about clay on a potter’s wheel.
July 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Write four paragraphs of description of the setting of your story.
- Use these five words: wondering, assessment, hidden, evidence, tracking
- Use the phrase “battled to a scoreless tie.”
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: reader, theory, pause, drawer, reaction. Bonus word: earwax.
- Fill in the blank: “Where did I put my _______?”
- Write about studying a map.
- Write about a freaked-out dog.
- Use these five words: bloomers, rundown, transformed, starry, photos
- Write about the sound of an appliance running.
- Set your story in a courtroom
- Write about eating out with a family member.
- Use these five words: influx, security, breach, reborn, bleed
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: case, version, leave, tourist, precedent.
- Use the phrase, “where did that come from?”
- Write about correcting someone.
- Use these five words: stalled, joint, win, gems, forcibly
- Write about being confused by a calendar.
- Set your story at a poetry reading
- Write about rushing to open a restaurant.
- Start with this line: What did you miss most while you were away?
- Write a child’s bedtime story.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: cylinder, fairy, straight, temperature, warm.
- Use the phrase, “As far away as possible.”
- Write about a large animal.
- Write about a health worry.
- Write about being scared
- Write about settling in a different country.
- Write about a sexual assault accusation
- Write about summer snow.
- Set your story in space
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: transport, throat, impound, suppress, hang.
- Use the phrase, “I’m not sure what happens now.”
- Write about giving up trying to explain something.
- Set your story at an awards show
- Drop everything and write a Haiku.
- Start with this line: I’m not sure why I put myself through this.
- Write about cleaning out the refrigerator.
- Use these five words: cliffhanger, poet, buckle, hero, twist
- Make up a name for a day of the week.
June 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Write about poison.
- Set your story in a traffic jam
- Write about getting the cold shoulder.
- Use these five words: calling, double, lifetime, policy, treason
- Write about being disappointed after a major accomplishment.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Write about a favorite place to sit.
- Set your story at a funeral
- Write about tasting something special.
- Use these five words: watch, crow, parity, coffee, justice
- Write about staying up very late to finish a book.
- Start with this line: He said he meant it as a compliment.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: inappropriate, arrange, projection, plead, update.
- Use the phrase, “It looks the same to me.”
- Write about craving a stimulant.
- Start with this line: Two lucky winners will receive…
- Write about waiting for quitting time.
- Write about a character wearing robes
- Write about a misremembered quotation.
- Start with this line: The stakes just got higher.
- Write about discovering a surprising shared interest.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: ceremony, scheme, prey, charm, hesitate.
- Use the phrase, “Repeat after me.”
- Write about uncooked food.
- Use the phrase, “Was I daydreaming?”
- Use these five words: fastidiously, patience, director, zero, imminent
- Write about unconventional clothes.
- Use these five words: imaginative, intersect, genius, false, analysis
- Use the phrase, “It’s just six months til Christmas.”
- Write about a complicated threat
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: paralyzed, claim, formation, positive, fail.
- Fill in the blank: “Not enough room in the _______.”
- Write about being unable to hear.
- Start with this line: Where are they now?
- Use this phrase: “Why isn’t it red?”
- Set your story in a wildfire
May 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Use the phrase, “Mayday! Mayday!”
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: trait, earthquake, wire, laborer, suburb.
- Use the phrase, “Wait, don’t do that.”
- Write about trying not to laugh.
- Write about a late-season storm.
- Use these five words: married, tomorrow, founder, gala, surprise
- Write about making up a holiday.
- Start with this line: Please drive with caution.
- Use “What day is it?”
- Use these five words: ceremony, personal, legacy, lobster, swans
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: hardship, sour, provincial, miss, banner.
- Use the phrase, “Is it morning again already?”
- Write about doing habitual things in the wrong order.
- Start with this line: It wasn’t something we focused on.
- Write about using sign language in a noisy bar.
- Start with this line: You should’ve cut him when you had the chance.
- Write about a cat’s hunting habits.
- Use these five words: superheroes, millions, human, poet, baseball
- Use the phrase “And here it is mid-May already.”
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: recommend, class, abnormal, gravity, city.
- Use the phrase, “scratching people off the list.”
- Write about hoping not to encounter anybody you know.
- Write about recreating a very old recipe.
- Set your story at a movie premiere
- Make up a child’s bedtime story.
- Set your story in an airport
- Write about a lesson learned during the pandemic.
- Set your story at a protest
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: bind, corruption, distinct, deficit, passion.
- Use the phrase, “There was a time when I believed…”
- Write about putting on fancy clothes.
- Write about receiving a diploma
- Write about the limits of a can-do attitude.
- Write about a musical collaboration
- Start with “Why am I here?”
- Use these five words: meet-cute, scrapbooking, arrest, envelope, neglected
- Use “That’s not fair!”
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: institution, pest, lecture, nursery, pie.
- Use the phrase, “It’s almost time to go.”
- Write about troubleshooting.
- Discuss the phrase “once upon a time.”
April 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Write about why April fools get their own day.
- Write about winning
- Write about an animal mascot.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: jump, extension, waterfall, pile, monopoly.
- Use the phrase, “Can we afford that?”
- Write about an auction.
- Write about figuring out a weird calendar.
- Use these five words: groups, masks, doctor, refused, office
- Write about an unlucky number.
- Start with this line: This rhetoric is inciting violence.
- Write about introducing old and new partners.
- Write about an intense class
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: defeat, growth, ask, highlight, grace.
- Use the phrase, “I don’t know what’s in it.”
- Write about interruptions.
- Write about a shooting
- Write about struggling to read fine print.
- Set your story under the surface of the ocean
- Write about a last-minute reprieve.
- Write about an important vote
- Write about a lazy Saturday spent with a friend.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: claim, velvet, acquit, argument, loose.
- Use the phrase, “It’s better not to ask.”
- Write about a moth drawn to a flame.
- Write about a formal tea ceremony.
- Start with this line: Do you think he will leave peacefully?
- Write about tedious repetition.
- Use these five words: discovery, collaboration, hug, plant, voice
- Write about confusion over an acronym.
- Use these five words: staffing, rock, recipients, counted, author
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: chord, chain, exercise, smart, album.
- Use the phrase, “Here’s the plan.”
- Write about waiting for dinnertime.
- Write about dancing in the rain
- Write about a recurring nightmare.
- Start with this line: What are you most looking forward to?
- Write about the last of its kind.
- Use these five words: outlandish, shattering, accident, syndrome, modicum
March 2021
Daily Writing Prompts
- Start with the names of three colors.
- Use these five words: forgotten, identities, weird, attribute, completed
- Write about a failing battery.
- Set your story in a casino
- Write about taking all day to do a simple task.
- Write about your writing routine
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: dive, court, neighbor, collar, organize.
- Use the phrase, “Is that a cactus?”
- Write about an arithmetic mistake.
- Start with this line: I shouldn’t be laughing.
- Use the phrase, “Tell me a story.”
- Write about unwelcome paparazzi photos
- Write about a failed software update.
- Use these five words: hopeful, detour, roadblock, active, loudly
- Write about being afraid to go out.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: glare, clerk, feign, conclusion, aloof.
- Use the phrase, “It’s not a good place.”
- Write about remorse or regret.
- Write about being stuck with an uncertain welcome.
- Start with this line: I don’t make the rules.
- Give your character an unusual name.
- Start with this line: The only thing that would horrify me is…
- Use “I used to know how to do this.”
- Set your story on a fishing boat
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: disorder, performer, waste, tropical, grief.
- Use the phrase, “What are you feeling?”
- Write about picky food preferences.
- Start with this line: What a trip down memory lane.
- Write about an apprentice.
- Set your story in a dream
- Write about a summer hockey league.
- Set your story at a yoga class
- Write about a childhood embarrassment.
- Join us for a live Writing Chat every Sunday!
- Use the following five words: medium, hard, unpleasant, care, orgy.
- Use the phrase, “mended feelings.”
- Write about an uncanny feeling.
- Write about a bad case of the Mondays.
- Write about making a big move
- Write about pushing up against limits.