The Write Spot Blog by Marlene Cullen

Category: Prompts

  • Last time . . . Prompt #523

    Today’s Writing Prompt:

    The last time . . .

    Or:

    This is the last time . . .

  • Lights. Prompt #522

    Green Light. Go!

     Red Light. Stop!

    Yellow Light. Caution! 

    Blue light . . .?

    Purple light . . .?

    Black light . . .?

  • Superstition. Prompt #521

    Superstition . . . write about a superstition you have, or superstitions in general.

  • Talisman. Prompt #520

    Do you have a talisman or a good luck charm?

    If yes, write about that.

    If no, what would you chose for a good luck charm?

  • Forgive. Prompt #519

    Invictus is a 2009 film starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.

    The story is based on the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation about the events in South Africa during the 1995 Rugby World Cup.  

    After spending 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was released and elected as South Africa’s first black president, he preached reconciliation.

    When he decided to support the country’s rugby team — long a symbol of white oppression — his countrymen were stunned.

    “Forgiveness liberates the soul,” Mandela explains to a crowd. “That’s why it’s such a powerful weapon.”

    Prompt: Forgiveness.

    Write about the concept of forgiveness or absolution.

    Write about someone you could forgive, or someone who might forgive you.

  • Travel. Prompt #518

    Write about the farthest you have traveled.

    Or

    Write about the time you were farthest from home.

    Or

    Tell about a time you missed your plane, train, bus, gondola, cab ride.

  • A house . . . Prompt #517

    Write about a house you no longer go to.

    Or a house you would like to visit.

    Or a house you will never again go to.

    Write about a house.

  • What does age have to do with it? Prompt #516

    Now that you are of a “certain age,” you know a thing or two.

    What do you know now that you didn’t used to know?

  • The last piece of the puzzle. Prompt #515

    Writing prompt: The last piece of the puzzle.

    You know what to do . . . Just write!

  • What are you confused about? Prompt #514

    We know what we know.

    What’s more interesting:

    ~ What don’t you know?

    ~ What are you confused about?