Timing is Everything

Writing Prompt:
Start writing beginning with the line "Another question, another day...". Don't stop for 20 minutes.

A Different Kind of Artist's Journal

Prompt:
Create an artist's journal. It should have limited writing, but should be able to recall emotions clearly thorugh visual images. This is something in between a scrapbook and a diary about the creative process.

Here are a few websites to help you get an idea of the artist's journal:

Aisling's Artists Journal

Book #1

Book #2

The New Black

Prompt:
Free write for 10 minutes on freckles. Are they a pro? a con? Can it define one's personality, or are they inconsequential? Are there other things that having freckles might affect?

Stereotypes are Real

Prompt:
Write a piece about the stereotypical mad inventor.

Plaid and Polka Dots

Prompt:
Write a piece about a stereotypical college professor. Don't focus on the clothing but be sure to mention it.
approx. 600 words

Free Write

Prompt:
Today is a free write (no time limit, no word count) on beauty (of any kind- person, place, or thing).

Time Travel Week #10

Prompt:
You are sometime in the future! Write for 20 minutes.

Time Travel Week #9

Prompt:

You are an poor English person convicted of a crime, and being sent to Australia's penal colony. You may write either before, during, or after the trial, but don't forget to included what crime you committed, whether you were innocent or guilty, and the reasoning behind the crime, your arrest, and your sentencing.

Time Travel Week #8

Because I thought of a lot of fun prompts, we'll just keep going for a while. =)

Prompt:
It's 1917 and the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. Write a piece either from the perspective of someone within the Winter palace (but not necessarily a royal) or from someone that's storming the gates. But do try to avoid a Disney character for one of your own creation.

Time Travel Week #7

Prompt:
It's caveman days at Wordsworth Station. Write a piece about the time period, either from a first person perspective or from a third person POV.

Time Travel Week #6

Prompt:
Today you are a Viking- but whether you are one back in the homeland or one of Erik the Red's crew colonizing Greenland is up to you.

Time Travel Week #4

Prompt:
Let's head off to the Mayan empire, circa 1500s just before or just after the Spanish come into contact (your choice). What is the civilization going through at this particular moment (focus on the collective, rather than an individual character today)

The Good Ole Years

Prompt:
Find some of your early writings... the more hilariously bad, the better. First, tell yourself how great you've become since then. Second, see what you can improve. Third, actually do it. Sit down and re-write one or two brief pieces. Fourth, laugh really hard. Now doesn't that make you feel better?

1,000 Words

Prompt:
Just something to contemplate. Do a ten minute free-write on whatever comes to mind after viewing this image.

No Writing Week #3

Prompt:
Today, find theme songs for each of your characters, and a track list for the entire work. If you can, match a song to the issues that you are discussing in the piece- a theme song for a theme, if you will.

No Writing Week #2

Prompt:
Today spend around 30 minutes surfing the internet for pictures of your piece's physical setting. Get as specific as you can- including weather pictures for a particular scene, a single location like a house, commercial strip-mall, etc

Festival Week #7

Writing Prompt:
The end of holidays are using a let down, just as there is a certain sadness when morning's light truly illuminates a carnival, or when the festival is taken down and packed up, or when the circus leaves town. Write a piece on this sort of situation. It can be a memory from childhood, or a fictionalized piece from any character's perspective, or a poem on the general emotion. Get creative.

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 #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 #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?)