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Fun for Friday: May 2023 Writing Prompts

One of the otters was unafraid and came out to say hello

In the not-entirely-accurate words of Justin Timberlake, “It’s gonna be May!”

Okay, yeah, that’s a horrible joke but I love it anyway. And it is nearly May, which means it’s time for one of my favorite monthly challenges, MerMay!

And MerMay is the source of the first column of words/phrases. There are a couple on there I had to look up, specifically “zaddy” and “Halle Bailey.” The latter will be Ariel in the new Little Mermaid movie. The former is sort of the new sugar daddy? Only not.

Column 2 is from Kick in the Creatives. Column 3 is from Art Prompt Calendar, which I haven’t seen before.

There are a couple of duplicate words this month, so those are starred on their second occurrence. With those, they can be a good excuse to do some more work on a piece you started but didn’t finish that also used that word. Or you can skip them the second time, or even reuse them–the nice thing about the three word prompt is that you might wind up with something very different when the same word has two different words with it.

Check back on the last Friday of each month (or occasionally the first day of a new month, when that falls on a Friday) for my History That Never Was writing prompts!

Day Word 1 Word 2 Word 3
1 Self Portrait Collectible Frolic
2 Upside Down Self Portrait * Honor
3 Twisted Action Gorge
4 Star Wars Sharp Clever
5 Cinco de Mayo Dancer May
6 Mushroom Energy Hush
7 Merfairy Separated Up
8 Dystopian Sparkling Lock
9 Heartbreak Ocean Valid
10 Celestial Cafe Map
11 Villain Fast Food Revive
12 Companion Public Transport Evade
13 Old Money Curly Sorcery
14 Mama Night Time Blue
15 Horror Soap Opera Slow
16 Celebrity Expensive Uncanny
17 Emotion Pair Bland
18 Deep Sea Organic Decay
19 Sunrise Spicy Cast
20 Music for a Sushi Restaurant Occupation Task
21 Body Positive Hobby Captive
22 Zodiac Ornamental Hearty
23 Tradition In your last parcel Four
24 Zaddy Forest Rumor
25 Food In the bath/shower String
26 Jewel Costume Big
27 Halle Bailey Scales Criminal
28 Sailor Fairy tale Wisp
29 Barbie Squashed Steady
30 Blue * Messy Passion
31 Good Night Factual Mend

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