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Fun for Friday: October 2023 Writing Prompts

A pumpkin embedded in the wall (yes, upside down) at Meow Wolf Convergence Station (Denver).

It’s spooky season!

I mean, in my world, spooky season is year round, but it’s time for the October 2023 writing prompts, and this month, it’s all about Halloween!

Column 1, as it always is for the October prompts, is Mab’s Drawlloween Challenge. This one is always my favorite list, year after year! The hashtag for this one, should you want to see what folks are drawing for this challenge, is #mabsdrawlloweenclub.

Column 2 is Stingtober, which uses the hashtag #stingtober2023.

Column 3 is Queen Squirrel Art’s Drawtober, which uses the hashtag #queensdrawtober.

There’s a bit of overlap, particularly between columns 1 and 3, so I’ve starred those entries. Even when they aren’t identical, if they’re along similar lines, I went ahead and marked them. You can either skip those duplicate words, use those days to work on a piece that you started at the first occurrence, fill them in with different words of your own, or just double down and write several pieces with a similar theme!

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 Spooky self-portrait Path Mushroom*
2 Witch* Glow Chains
3 Werecat Delicate Pink
4 Vampire Pierce Good witch*
5 Haunted Tail Pumpkin*
6 Botanical beasts Shield Full Moon
7 Faerie* Whisper Cat
8 Mushroom* Young Turnip
9 Finfolk Infuse Spider
10 Pumpkin* Fake Wicked witch*
11 Web Charge Glow in the dark
12 Toad Salt Ghost
13 Frankenstein Abandon Magic*
14 Goth moth Hound Cake
15 Reaper Bask Stars
16 Black Lagoon Thorns Fae*
17 Ghoul Lurk Stone
18 Ominous owl Tightrope Old
19 Classic horror Friend Gold
20 Extraterrestrial* Pain Alien*
21 Crow Glove Coffin
22 Magic* Depths Candle
23 Yokai Creep Costume
24 Nocturnal Ice Roses
25 Horned* Perch Potion
26 Tower Hand Horns*
27 Mythological Dive Angel
28 Hunters moon Soft Gothic
29 Wolfman Hammer Ouija
30 Spooky scary skeletons Static Overgrown
31 Rest in peace Failure Trick or treat

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