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Fun for Friday: September 2022 Writing Prompts!

| August 26, 2022

Here we are, almost to September. Where has the year gone? This month, I’ve borrowed the words from several art challenges. One of them is one for 2022, but the other two are older ones, as I couldn’t find current versions of their lists. The first column is from the 2022 Kick in the Creatives […]

Fun for Friday: A List of Writing Prompt Sites

| August 19, 2022

If you’re looking to fill a blank page, check out this list of writing prompt sites from Story A Day! Some of these are sites I may have linked to previously, but there are also some neat ideas of other places to look for prompts! Some are geared toward younger writers, and some are geared […]

Fun for Friday: August 2022 Writing Prompts

| July 29, 2022

It’s nearly August, so it’s time for the monthly writing prompt post! This month, column 1 is random words, while column 2 comes from the Doodlewash August 2021 list, and column 3 comes from Redfox the Kitsune’s Smaugust 2022 list. Both Doodlewash and Smaugust are typically art challenges, but much like I do with MerMay […]

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: 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 […]