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Fun for Friday: Poetry Writing Prompts!

| July 15, 2022

Even if you don’t consider yourself a poet, poetry can be a fun way to get your creative brain working when you don’t have ideas for stories. With these fun exercises, you might get an unusual poem, or you might get an idea out of the poetry you’re playing with that could turn into a […]

Fun for Friday: Three Image Prompts

| July 8, 2022

I didn’t have a theme picked out when I started putting these image prompts together, but one seems to have developed anyway. The first image shows a person standing in shallow water with a boat that is comparatively larger than them, but still a smaller boat. In the background, the sun is rising and painting […]

Fun for Friday: Sci-Fi (and other) Writing Prompts and Generator!

| July 1, 2022

If you’re looking for a bunch of sci-fi prompts, along with some other genre prompts, check out this page. In addition to the prompts here, there are links to other prompt lists, AND there’s a prompt generator as well! So you’ll find all sorts of ideas (some better than others, of course, when it comes […]

Fun for Friday: July Writing Prompts

| June 24, 2022

July will be here before we know it, so it’s time for the July writing prompts. This month, I picked a bunch of onomatopoeic words, a bunch of color words that are also somewhat summer-y, and some very random words. Of course, you can take the color words at face value and write about them […]

Fun for Friday: Journal Prompts for Fiction

| June 17, 2022

Sometimes, it can be fun to look at prompts that aren’t designed for fiction writing and twist them into fiction prompts. This list is meant to be for creative journaling, but there are plenty here that could also be story seeds for a fiction writer. You may have to turn a few of them on […]

Fun for Friday: Gardening Images

| June 10, 2022

I’ve got gardening on my mind, so here’s some interesting gardening images for this week’s Fun for Friday! The first image is some brilliant blue anemones with a sepia-toned background. The second images is a heart-shaped gap in a vivid green hedge, with an out of focus scene in the background. The third image is […]

Fun for Friday: Sample Writing Exercises

| June 3, 2022

There are all kinds of writing exercises available online, as well as those available in published books. In this case, one author of a couple of published books of writing exercises, Brian Kiteley, has put some sample exercises on his website. The first set are from his book The 3 A.M. Epiphany, while a second set […]

Fun for Friday: June 2022 Writing Prompts!

| May 27, 2022

This year is flying past for me! Here we are, staring down the beginning of June, summer vacation for kids, and possibly summer weather if you’re in the northern hemisphere. So it’s time for the June 2022 writing prompts! June has had a bunch of art challenges in the past (not all of which are […]

Fun for Friday: Bunches of Writing Prompts!

| May 20, 2022

When you’re staring at a blank page with no ideas, pop over to Wrighting Words’ list of writing prompts! Whether you do best with random bits of dialogue, titles, or random words, there are a bunch of different ways to get your writing started! With six different categories to choose from, you could even pick […]

Fun for Friday: Merfolk Inspired Images

| May 13, 2022

For this week’s Fun for Friday, it’s image prompts, all on a merfolk-related theme without being just about merfolk! The first image is a forest scene with a lightbulb-shaped vessel holding water and a very small merfolk, along with a ladybug perched atop the bulb and an ant to the left. The second image is […]