Category: Prompts

What is important at this stage of your life?

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Today’s writing prompt has three parts.

~ I wish I had . . . write for 7 minutes

~ I wish I could . . . write for 7 minutes

~ Write as if you had accomplished what you wish you had or wish you could. What would that look like?

Think about something you read recently.

It could be a book, a poem, an article, a letter . . . something you read and remember.

What did you like about this reading?

What didn’t you like?

What made it memorable?

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“She turns off her flashlight and listens to the waves, which sound to her like the earth itself breathing.” —“love anthony,” by Lisa Genova, pg. 246

“As ocean surface waves approach shore, they get taller and break, forming the foamy, bubbly surface called surf.” —Google Search

Writing Prompt: Image of waves lapping on shore or the quotes.

What popped into your mind when you saw this image?

Or, what did you think after you read the first quote?

Your reaction after you read the second quote.

How do you feel when you see and hear waves on the beach?

Write whatever you want. Just Write!

Suppose you could snap your fingers and be wherever you want to be, where would you go?

Where would you like to be?

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Are you a detailed planner or spontaneous when you travel?

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When you are writing and you have more time to write, but you feel ready to stop . . . try to keep going. Push the limits. Push past the urge to go no farther.

Writing Prompt: Play with the word and the concept of “ghost.”

Writing Prompts

Seeing a ghost.

Have you ever seen, or thought you saw, a ghost?

Ghost of a former self

Not a ghost of a chance

Ghost of a smile

Give up the ghost

Caspar, The Friendly Ghost

Relationship (past or present) as a ghost

Rituals as ghosts

Look in a mirror and “see a ghost” . . . see grandmother or grandfather

Ghost writing

Ghost town

Ghosting someone: to cut off all contact abruptly and without explanation, pretending that person doesn’t exist.

Writing Prompt: Ghost

Submit your ghost story to The Ghost Story.