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Tag: ideas for short stories

December 16, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Cookies and Cocoa

Our final Wednesday Writing Prompt for 2020. Next year we’ll be changing format slightly. I hope you’ve found these prompts useful, created a story or two, and even sold a story or two. For this one, the words cookies and cocoa have to appear in your story three times. Once in narration, once in an…

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November 11, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-These Shoes Were Made For Walking

Time for another video prompt. Where is the man walking? Who does he meet? Someone he knows? Has he walked to this location with a specific goal in mind? Lots you can do with this so have fun and happy writing.

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November 4, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-That Dream Again

A new month of prompts. I thought we’d try a mix of everything we’ve done so far this year. Images, first lines, continuing stories, video prompts… For this first week, it’s an image. Your character has the same dream every night. In the dream they’re sitting on this bench. Does what happens in the dream…

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September 16, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Genre Number Two

Continuing with our change the genre prompts of September. Here’s the image again and this week, let’s make it a Sci-Fi story. Have fun and happy writing.

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September 9, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Genre Pick

It’s September, four writing prompts this month so how about using an image, the same image each week but a different genre each time? Sound like fun? Sound like a challenge? Here’s the image and this week, the chosen genre is mystery. Have fun and happy writing.

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August 26, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Fire

Let’s round out the month of August prompts with the final element and it’s fire. Lots of stories that you can use, a house fire, forest fire, fire at a campsite. Have fun and happy writing.  

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July 29, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Milk

Our final prompt for July. Our last saying is-  No use crying over spilt milk Who says this, your main character or does someone say this to the main character and what are they referring to? And remember this could even be the title of the story too. Have fun and happy writing.

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July 1, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Birds

Each month, I try to think of something different for the writing prompts so for July, I thought we’d try well known sayings. The first one is- Birds of a feather You can use it for the title, have those words buried in the story or it can actually be based on the saying. It’s…

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June 24, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Secret Island

Our fourth and final week of the June Writing Prompts with a continuing story line. We started with a character who wanted to learn to skateboard. The following week, they took a break at a cafe where they saw someone from the past. Last week, they chatted with this person and the character learned they…

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June 10, 2020

Wednesday Writing Prompts-Continuing Story-Part 2

This is part 2 of our month long continuing short story. Last week your character decided to try skateboarding with the opening line, I can do this. How did they do? Failure or success? After their first skateboarding attempt, they find a cafe. They decide to get a drink.   As they sit there, they…

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