Switching Mindsets

Prompt:
Write about high heels from a male perspective if you're female, and from a female perspective if you're male. (around 500 words)

Change of Pace

Prompt:
This week I challenge you to write in a different format than what you normally use. Normally write on the computer? Try pen and paper. Normally write in pencil? Try a pen in a fancy color. Whatever you do, don't allow the different medium to stop you from writing. The point is to see how the change affects your writing- not in a "oh this is uncomfortable" manner, but do you think differently? Do you use different vocabulary? Do you write slower, or faster? Do you deliberate over each word, or does it flow more naturally? Do you write in a different tone, or in a different mood? Does your character/ theme/plot change with the format?

Time Travel Week #2

Prompt:
If you could time-travel to the French Revolution, who would you want to meet for coffee?

Time Travel Week #1

It's time travel week here at Wordsworth Station! I'll be giving you a time period and a location, and you have to write about it!

Prompt:
If you could time-travel to Renaissance England, who would you be? Why? What sort of activities would you do? How would you be employed (or would you)?

Bibliophila and Me

Prompt:
Write a piece about when you first fell in love with books.

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 #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?

Recountre

Prompt:
Write about your earliest childhood memory.

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.

Paint Swatches

Prompt:
What is your least favorite color? Write an entire piece on why you dislike that color, but in third-person narrative and without referring to yourself. Must be at least 500 words.

Foodie

Prompt:
We are often asked what our favorite food is. Now, take your favorite food, and write about it in detail, to the point of obsession. You are writing an ode, a love song to your favorite food. Try to write as long as you can. Aim for 500 words. Now, do the exact same thing for your least favorite food- but you still have to love it. If you want, do it from a character's perspective.

Speaking Fancy

If you could have a phone conversation with anyone in the world (still living) who would it be? Write a dialogue between you two, but don't add in emotions, internal thoughts, or any other writing other than your dialogue. Try to show all the details through the conversation alone.

Opposite Thinking

Prompt:
I have a habit of writing with women as my main characters, and rarely focus specifically on the other gender. So now... write an piece about what it's like to be the opposite sex. It can be about any profession, any age, etc; and it can be from first person POV or thrid person POV, but it has to be about living life as a (male or female) and "typical (male or female)" experiences.

Dreams

Prompt:
Have you ever had a reoccurring dream? If you have, you know how bizarre it is to focus on a single or single set of images that reoccur multiple nights in a row. Write a piece in which you describe your reoccurring dream, or create a story/poem/song, etc in which another character experiences this phenomena. Describe the dream in detail- it can be a nightmare, or something funny, or something really bizarre (I have been dreaming that all my hair dye washes out, and I am left with gray hair!)