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Fun for Friday: December 2022 Writing Prompts

| November 25, 2022

Believe it or not, we’re almost to December and the end of the year! I feel like time is flying by this year, though that may just be in comparison to the last couple of years, which each seemed to last about a decade. For this month’s writing prompts, I’ve collected a few different challenges […]

Fun for Friday: Thirty Writing Prompts

| November 18, 2022

November may be halfway over, but I recently found this list of November writing prompts and really liked what they included! You could get started on them now, save them for another month with 30 days, or just randomly choose a prompt to use (through a random number generator or just picking a favorite number) […]

Fun for Friday: Three Interesting Images

| November 11, 2022

Perhaps these images don’t look like they go together at first, but I’ve already got a story brewing in my mind from looking at them! The first image is an illustration of a sunrise or sunset filtered through trees at the left of the image, with hazy details of a mountain in the background, and […]

Fun for Friday: Autumn Writing Prompts

| November 4, 2022

As the weather turns chilly, it’s nice to have some autumn themed ideas for writing. Here’s a great list of 50 autumn writing prompts that might inspire you to write a story or add a scene to your NaNoWriMo novel!

Fun for Friday: November 2022 Writing Prompts

| October 28, 2022

October is nearly over, so here comes November! This month, Word 1 prompts come from the Kick in the Creatives Art Challenge, with slight modification to make them all one word prompts. Word 2 prompts come from Miska’s Maps Mapvember. And Word 3 prompts are randomly generated words. So there’s not much of a theme […]

Fun for Friday: Horror Writing Prompts

| October 21, 2022

All of my Fun for Fridays are themed toward this being October and the prime spooky season! Today, I’ve got a list of horror writing prompts! There are a variety of different types of seeds here, so you may need to poke through a few before you find one that will resonate with you, but […]

Fun for Friday: Eerie Pictures

| October 14, 2022

It’s the spooky season, so today’s image writing prompts are also on the eerie side. The first image is a black and white image of leafless trees in a faint mist, with a two-track path beginning in the right hand foreground and extending into the distance. There may be a shrouded figure in the distance, […]

Fun for Friday: Random Horror Mash-Up Prompts!

| October 7, 2022

It’s the spooky season, so this week’s Fun for Friday prompts are from the horror genre! The graphic in this post shows a breakdown of many horror genres and subgenres, along with the films that fall into those subgenres. (If the graphic is blurry, you can click on it to enlarge, or go here to […]

Fun for Friday: October 2022 Writing Prompts!

| September 30, 2022

Alright, everyone. It’s spooky season, and we’re getting EXTRA weird for this month’s writing prompts! As I often do for October, I’m pulling the first column of prompts from Mab’s Drawlloween Club. This year, Mab has opted to write prompts that will inspire lighter and sillier drawings (or stories). But for my second column, I’ve […]

Fun for Friday: Abstract Images

| September 23, 2022

This week’s image prompts are some slightly abstract pieces. The first image is a series of waves in blues and purples. It could be water, paper, or flowers. The second image is a deer buck rendered in polygons. The extent of the buck’s antlers are not shown in the image, and the background is soft […]