Festival Week #6

Prompt:
If you could create a haunted house, what would you include? Try to write as if the reader was actually walking through the haunted house, and create dramatic visual images.

Festival Week #5

Prompt:
Write about your favorite Halloween (or similar holiday) costume from your childhood. Why did you want to dress up as that character? What made the costume great?

Festival Week #4

Prompt:
If you could have anything, what would be the ultimate Trick or Treat prize? NO candy, but keep it within the Trick or Treat tradition.

Festival Week #3

Prompt:
Write about a childhood memory at a carnival or festival. Stick to what you remember, then re-write the piece later with more fictionalized embellishments. What did you tweak? Why? What did it add to your piece?

Festival Week #2

Prompt:
Write a piece about circus clowns from several perspectives:
1) the clown(s)
2) a child's/ children's
3) an adult's
4) a non-human character (the lion in the booth to the right anyone?)

Festival Week #1

This week will deal with all things festival, country fair, carnival, and mardi gras!

Prompt:
Write a scene full of polka dots, stripes, and bright colors... that is NOT set in a festival.

Farm-ward Bound

Prompt:
Write a piece that centers around a farm, or write a piece that has a main character straight off the farm.

Defy Boundaries

Prompt:
Write a poem/song about unrequited love from the perspective of an 50+ person. (Can be the object of the love, or the person who loved, or an observer, or whoever! Have fun)

Simple Character by Chaotic Shiny Gen

Prompt:
I was poking around Chaotic Shiny Generator, and found this character description:

He has a number of scars and ashen skin. He likes tortured pasts and spicy food. He is creative and not very competent. His favourite sin is gluttony.

Write an expanded character profile/bio (approx. 500 words), and a short introductory scene (approx. 5oo words).

Deal or No Deal

Prompt:
If you made a Faustian bargain, what would you do with that power? Can you take any of those desires and recognize valuable literary themes to include in your work(s)?

Imitation

Prompt:
Write a scene/poem/piece completely in the style of your favorite author.

Repete

Prompt:
Write a piece that begins and ends with exactly the same sentence. Must be less than 1000 words.

Recountre

Prompt:
Write about your earliest childhood memory.

Three Objects Week #7

Prompt:
Write a piece centered around chalk, a sprinkler system, and a palm tree.

Three Objects Week #6

Prompt:
Write a piece that centers around lace, a video game, and a hockey stick.

Three Objects Week #5

Prompt:
Write a piece that centers around fruit gummies, the TV , and window curtains.

Three Objects Week #4

Prompt:
Write a piece that centers around a pearl necklace, a gun, and a handkerchief.

Three Objects Week #3

Prompt:
Write a piece that centers around a cell phone, a phonograph, and a (unnamed technology of the future).

Three Objects Week #2

Prompt:
Write a piece that centers around a book, a bell, and a bracelet.

Three Objects Week #1

This week will have you write any sort of piece that centers around three random (and sometimes bizarre) objects.

Prompt:
Write a piece that centers around a rubber ball, iced tea, and kleenex tissues.

Get to Know Your Character Week #7

Prompt:
What is your character's favorite self-indulgent/guilty pleasure movie? Book? Other?

Get to Know Your Character Week #6

Prompt:
What is your character's favorite "pick me up"?

Get to Know Your Character Week #5

Prompt:
What would be your character's last-minute, go-to Halloween costume, the one worn every year?

Get to Know Your Character Week #4

Prompt:
Today spend around 30 minutes surfing the internet for pictures of your characters- try for less-known celebrities as well as up-and-comers. Base your decisions on physical traits rather than roles played, although personality can be a (small-ish) factor.

Get to Know Your Character Week #3

Prompt:
What is your character's favorite band? Favorite song? Can you incorporate it into a scene somehow?

Get to Know Your Character Week #2

Prompt:
Does your character have a favorite outfit? Be specific. Don't just say a dress, but say a black silk halter dress. Don't just say t-shirts and jeans, but say Levi's 501 and a Kiss concert shirt. Give background. Is the dress a gift? Was the concert tee actually from the concert, or ordered online but passed off as the real thing?

Get to Know Your Character Week #1

This week is going to be full of prompts centered around character development in fiction. Hopefully this will spark new scenes and greater familiarity with your star.

Prompt:
Does your character have any self-delusions? Are they destructive? Are they helpful? What purpose does this delusion serve?

The Art of Correspondance

Prompt:
Write a letter to an English or creative writing professor/ teacher that has helped. inspired, or motivated your writing in a significant manner. Tell that person how you see that influence continued today, and how it has affected your writing style and/or career. If you want to go that extra step, actually send the letter to the professor/teacher, if applicable.

Logophile

Prompt:
Find a really rich, evocative word from the dictionary that you didn't previously understand. Write a piece centered on this word, but match the genre/plot/tone match the nature of the word.