Here is a prompt on what, I feel, is an essential element of all our lives. — Prompt: Write about imagination — Each man stood tall and sure, one hand in one pocket of each man’s breast coat pocket. The man on the left kept his left foot forward and kept his body turned away from his opponent. The man on the right held his right leg in and held his chest away in a similar...
Here is a two minute, timed prompt, for this afternoon. I put two minutes on the clock and started to write whatever came to my mind in the time. — Prompt: Write about your Companion. — My companion is black, long, and sleek. My companion is a well tinkered watch, a precision instrument. She wields large fangs and a terrible odor. “Good girl,” I say. “You’re...
Prompt: Worship — The low beep emitting from David’s watch woke him in the still dark morning. The watch was the only personal item David took with him on his journey. He could only take one. One thing for a whole year alone on a hill. David’s father had brought a book, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. He talked about his journey often. So often that David began to think...
Hello you, The poll on my facebook is telling me that the leading genre in the poll “Which genre is your favorite?” is literary fiction. This, of course, means we will have a prompt on it. And by goodness we will. — Prompt: Write a piece in the style of a literary fiction novel. — The nurse was back again. Gone again. Then she was talking, at least I thought she was...
Prompt: Superhero — “Twenty seven!” The man said, slamming his small boot-shaped glass onto the table among it’s mismatched fellows. “Twenty seven? Never! That was twenty six I tell ya’!” The challenger said, spitting and tossing his hands in the air. “Twenty six? I tell ya! It was twent-ry frive!” The crowd roared with approval and genral...
Hello you, Here is, as promised, my first prompt written in the style of a specific genre. I posted a poll on my Facebook page for you to choose which genres are your favorites and the genre that had the most votes today was ‘Crime’ ! — Prompt: Write a piece in the style of a crime novel. — Frank jerked up out of a dream and into hell. He opened his eyes, but there was no...
What are you up to today? Cool … Me too. Any-who, I wanted to let you know that I am going to be writing a new kind of prompt called a ‘genre prompt’ that focuses the writing piece in the style of a particular genre. I think these kinds of prompts will let me stretch my writing fingers a little too far in several different directions. It should help open up my writing while...
Hello you, I just wanted to pop in and remind you that you are welcome to write your own versions of any of the prompts I do and post them in the comments, if you would like. If you would, then you should put sixty seconds on the clock and start writing away! After the initial sixty seconds, you can go back and tidy up the draft. You don’t have to post your results at all, but it is good...