You! Yes, you. What hurts right now?
Write about that.
Or write about what is hurting your fictional character.
Writing Prompt: What hurts right now?
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What hurts right now? Prompt #209
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Deep but not profound . . . Prompt #208
The name of the game is: Deep but not profound.
Apples but not bananas 
Boots but not shoes 
Carrots but not potatoes 
Door but not window 
Eggs but not chickens 
Have you figured out the formula? Here’s a clue:
Look at the letters in the first words of each line above.
More clues:
Sleepy but not tired
Sleep but not slumber
Greet and hello and goodbye but neither here nor there.
Solution to this riddle:
The first word has double consonants or double vowels. The rest of the words don’t matter.
Two more:
Matter but not material
Correct but not right
I’m becoming addicted. . .
Hope you have fun with this little brain teaser!
What lines can you come up with?
Writing Prompt: Choose a line or a photo and write.
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Tradition . . . Prompt #207
~Tradition~
Quick! What’s the first thing you think when you see the word “tradition?”
Write about that.
OR:
Write about a tradition from your childhood.
Write about a tradition you gave up.
Write about a tradition you enjoy.
Ready? Set your time and write for 15-20 minutes. Just write!
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Use photos to inspire your writing. Prompt #206
You can use photos as writing prompts. Choose one of your photos, or a photo you remember and write about it.
First, look at the photo (if you can). Write all the details that you see. Write about what happened before and after the photo was taken. Write about your feelings connected with this photo.
Photos might remind you about activities, important occasions and details that you may have forgotten.
Did Great-grandpa always wear a hat? What was his first car? Where did he work?
Siblings. What did Grandma think as her son went off to war?
What did his sisters think? Did they send him off with special remembrances from home? Did they listen to every radio broadcast about the war? Did they watch events play out on television? Are there any letters from that era?
Grandma’s graduation day photo doesn’t look like today’s graduation photos. What were Grandma’s plans after graduation? Did they come true? What happened after she graduated? Who was the first one to graduate from high school in your family? The first one to graduate from college?
Brides! Wedding photos! Do these types of formal occasion photos live in your photo album?
Are they formal photos? Casual photos? Any videos? Tell the backstory of these wedding photos. Tell about the people in the background. How did the bride and groom meet?There are over 200 prompts on The Write Spot Blog. Photos accompany every prompt. You can use any of these photos as jumping off points to inspire your writing.
If you see a missing photo, please let me know. Some of them have mysteriously disappeared.
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Something good that came from . . . Prompt #205
Today’s writing prompt: Something good that came from something bad.Set your timer for 15-20 minutes. Write. Don’t think. Just write.
Okay, you might have to think a little before writing on this prompt. Once you choose a topic. . . then . . . write without thinking. No editing, no censoring. You can destroy your writing later, if you want.
For now . . . just write.
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What challenged you as a . . . Prompt #203
Today’s writing prompt: What challenged you as a fifteen-year-old?
When the prompt is a number or an age, you can adjust to whatever calls to you. For example, with this prompt you can write about what was challenging when you were thirteen, or fourteen, or sixteen. The exact age doesn’t matter. I chose fifteen because that is a pivotal year for some people.Marlene, Tonga Room, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, Junior Prom, 1965.
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What’s under your bed? Prompt #202
Today’s prompt: Write about the monsters under your bed.Oh, you don’t have any monsters under your bed?
Well then, what’s in your closet?
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What is a good life? . . . Prompt #199
What makes up a good life?
What are the ingredients for a good life? If you could combine essential ingredients to produce a good life, what would those ingredients be? Is there a secret ingredient?
If there was a recipe for a good life, would people embrace it? Would they conform or rebel or ???
If you were going to stitch qualities for a good life into a quilt, what bits and pieces would you need? What would the final piece look like?
Is this even a fair or answerable question? Are there too many variables to consider?
If you could create, cajole, conjure, form, shape a good life, would you? What would it look like. . . that good life many people strive for.Today’s writing prompt: What do you think a good life is all about?
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Scary movie . . . Prompt #198
Today’s Write Spot Blog prompt: Write about a movie that scared the bejeebers out of you. If you are writing fiction, what movie frightened your fictional character?There are lots of writing prompts on The Write Spot Blog, 198 to be exact. Choose one and just write!
