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Fun for Friday: October 2024 Writing Prompts!

A jar of tiny green skulls plus glow-in-the-dark skulls and bones, made for my Friday D&D group!

October is almost upon us, which means it’s time for the October 2024 writing prompts!

This month’s prompts are all taken from drawing challenges. As always, I devote column 1 to Mab’s Drawlloween Club, my favorite of the bunch. (She also has a printable calendar version if you prefer to have that to scribble notes on!)

Column 2 is the Gothtober challenge from limeth. This one is designed for goth original characters to be drawn in a variety of styles and situations, but the words here are also fun to combine with the other columns.

Finally, Column 3 is from the Original Drawlloween, and it includes a lot of spooky plays on titles and other concepts. This column has quite a bit of humor in it, so not everyone may find it useful for writing prompts if you want to lean spookier. But I figure having a bit of humor is great for the folks who don’t feel like doing spooky! So it all balances out, right?

As an additional prompt, the photo to the right might inspire you. How did someone get all those skulls and bones so tiny? Or are they not from humans? So many possibilities!

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 If I were a shape-shifter Black Finders, Creepers
2 Frankenstein Pastel Haunted Home Alone
3 Vampire Nighttime Were-Plane
4 Faun Music B. L. T. (the B is for Bugs)
5 Witch School uniform Trick or Treater’s Digest
6 Bones Stripes Renaissance Scare
7 Alien Mall Dude, Where’s My Spaceship
8 Grimm Purple Skull Shelled Snail
9 Goblin Emo Witch Knight
10 Black Lagoon Witchcraft Tarot Scare-O
11 Siren Horror movies Northern Lights Bring Cosmic Frights
12 Reaper Sports wear Prankenstein
13 Yokai Fishnets Robot Arms? In This Economy?
14 Undead Library Vampires Love Eclipses
15 Haunted forest Red Putrid Pizza Punks
16 Moon Punk You Reap What You Crow
17 Werewolf Spiders Queen of Scream
18 Raven Writing Hex-Men
19 Cryptid Hardcore Ooze Treasure Is It Anyway?
20 Cat creature Plushies The Monster Math
21 Zodiac Club Silence of the Hams
22 Botanical beasts Pink Body Building Competition
23 The Green Lady Cyber Midnight Train
24 Goth moth Monster Spores in my S’Mores
25 Hell hound Gaming Dismembers Only
26 Mask Cosplay Raisin Demons
27 Mushroom Hair Grocery Ghost
28 Dragon Graveyard Dead Engine
29 Pumpkin Green Showdown at Spooky Corral
30 Ghost Lolita Magic Mask
31 Rest in Peace Halloween Trick or Treat

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