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Fun for Friday: Three Wintery Images

| December 23, 2022

Today’s Fun for Friday has three wintery images to work with! The first image depicts an enormous sculpture that could be carved from ice or might just be iced over, against a clear medium blue sky, with a large full moon to its left. In the foreground, a procession of more than a dozen human […]

Fun for Friday: Writing My Own Prompts!

| December 16, 2022

We’ve recently started an Instagram account for DefCon One Publishing, and one of the features on that Instagram is writing prompts every couple of weeks. You can catch them on Fridays on Instagram, or every so often, I’ll round up several of them and post them here! The three prompts this week are: Write a […]

Fun for Friday: Three Colorful Images

| December 9, 2022

Today’s images are two on a very similar colorway and a third that I thought could be interest paired with the other two. The first image shows a person with long hair that is mostly pink and purple but also features other colors of the rainbow, and is a mix of different styles of braids […]

Fun for Friday: Fifty Creative Writing Prompts!

| December 2, 2022

If you’re looking for some ideas of new things to write, check out this list of 50 creative writing prompts for adults! There are some that might not lend themselves immediately to speculative fiction writing, but they might plant enough of a seed for you to spin into something speculative. Or they might give you […]

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 […]