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Fun for Friday: Another Batch of DefConOne Instagram Writing Prompts

| July 10, 2026

It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about a person who frames artwork. Write a piece about a constellation resembling a gate. Write a piece about a knight attempting to reach a location. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts on Fridays, or check them out when […]

Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, Fantasy Vibes = Rhymes!

| July 3, 2026

For the sixth prompt in my Big Pink Book, I decided to use the fantasy imagery, particularly the unicorn, to write some poetry. At the top of the page, I wrote seven lines of what amounted to vaguely iambic pentameter (it’s not perfect, but it’s in that ballpark). And none of the lines rhymed, though […]

Fun for Friday: July 2026 Writing Prompts

| June 26, 2026

It’s time for the July 2026 writing prompts! This month, the first column is the little life July 2025 prompts from @pastichecostudio. Many of these are summer-themed prompts, but they’re also very evocative! The second column is the Doodlewash July 2025 World Watercolor Month prompts, which was the 10th anniversary of World Watercolor Month. This […]

Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, Flags and Leaves

| June 19, 2026

So this prompt page wound up with me writing a lot of tiny notes, and it’s kind of a mess, honestly. Instead of trying to transcribe it, I’ll summarize what I’ve got. First off, I identified the flags as papel picado, because I hadn’t known their actual name before. They’re connected to the Day of […]

Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, Magical Books

| June 12, 2026

On Monday, I shared the blank version of this page, and today, you get to see what I did with it! Here’s what my notes say: Hymnal of Transformation (with an arrow pointing to the books) music as magic = lyramancy RyA theme -> predicament what if you have to finish a hymn if you […]

Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, “It’s Funny …”

| June 5, 2026

Time to share what I did with prompt 3 from the Big Pink Book! I’m not much of a puns person, so I took the “It’s funny” prompt and came up with some first sentences connected to that. Even though there were 20 dots on the page, I only wrote 10 sentences, since some took […]

Fun for Friday: June 2026 Writing Prompts!

| May 29, 2026

We’re already to the last weekend of May, which means it’s time for the June 2026 writing prompts! This month, the first column comes from Doodlewash’s June 2017 World Watercolor Group prompt list. This list is very themed toward summertime and very normal. But it could be interesting to think about what this modern world […]

Fun For Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, “We go together like …”

| May 22, 2026

As promised, here’s my version of the second prompt from the Big Pink Book! I numbered the washi tape dots from 1 through 20, but I also made two columns. The left-hand column is genres, and the right-hand column is locations. I also added an extra sticker to this page–a d20 that looks like a […]

Fun for Friday: DefConOne Instagram Prompts

| May 15, 2026

It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about the first cherry blossom of the year. Write a piece about a goldfish who aspires to be an artist. Write a piece about a good witch in a bad situation. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts on Fridays, […]

Fun for Friday: Every Other Friday Prompts

| May 8, 2026

While I was looking for May 2026 writing prompts, I came across the Every Other Friday challenge from ArtOfNelya. This is generally an art challenge, but these phrases are evocative and would also make great writing prompts! Though we’re already a third of the way through the year, I’m adding the whole list here. You […]