It’s the first Wednesday of the month so that means it’s time for our new writing prompt format. Each first Wednesday, I’ll post a set of random prompts and ideas that you can use throughout the month to either, write a short story, improve one aspect of your writing or even use it to spark…
Tag: prompts for stories
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Sci Fi Anyone?
Not a science fiction writer but feel like tackling a sci fi story? Here’s a photo prompt to get you started. What great sci fi story can you create? Maybe your character even does some time traveling. Perhaps they wake up and see this image outside the window. An added benefit is, there are lots…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Five Words
It’s April and that means we’re going to try some new ideas for story prompts. This week, I came up with an idea about a story that has to contain five words (I’ve gone with a spring theme). See if you can scatter the following five words into your story flowers spring exhausted never-ending gas…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Strange Objects
Many, many years ago, I ordered a book from Writer’s Digest Book Club which was a book of just photos. What would a writer want with that sort of book? Good question. It was a writing prompt collection. Not words, not story starters, but photos on which to base your story. This month, I thought…
Wednesday Writing/Journal Prompts-Saving to Buy
This week’s prompt focuses on saving to buy something. For the short story writer-what is it your character hopes to buy? How are they saving their money and what are they doing to earn the money? Something legal, perhaps not so legal? Something fun? Do they reach their goal? If you’re journaling, think back…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Characters-Part One
It’s April, so I thought we’d try something different. A prompt that will carry through this entire month. Each week you’ll get a photo of a different character as your prompt. Think of it as a piece of a puzzle. All four characters will be part of the same story each playing a part in…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Grey Wolf
We’re in the last month of the year so I thought we’d try photos prompts for the month of December. This first one features a wolf. Does your character see it while he or she is hiking? Are they planning to save it? Does it lead them somewhere they never expected? Do they maybe see it as…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Cold
This week’s prompt focuses on a character who has a cold. How do they react…maybe they’ve got something important to do and are too sick to get out of bed. Maybe they take a new to them remedy… Perhaps they’re only pretending they have a cold to get out of doing something they hate….
Promptober Day 23
I thought we’d use the next four days for some lines in stories. This first one can appear anywhere in the story- “Now’s not a good time.”
Promptober-Day 22
We’re now in the third week of the daily prompts. I thought we’d start with a photo prompt and here it is-