Fun for Friday: October 2024 Writing Prompts!
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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