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Fun for Friday: February 2023 Writing Prompts

| January 27, 2023

It’s time for the February 2023 writing prompts, and yet again, I’m borrowing my lists from other sources. It’s the combination of the three, I think, that will lead to interesting things. Words in the first column are from the Kick in the Creatives February 2023 art prompts. They’ve got the most variety! Words in […]

Fun for Friday: Winter Writing Prompts

| January 6, 2023

Hopefully the worst of the bitter cold and ice has melted for my Northern Hemisphere readers, but we’re still in the midst of winter. So today, have some winter fiction writing prompts! There are some fun ideas here, some of which could be made even more fun by adding some speculative elements. They could also […]

Fun for Friday: January 2023 Writing Prompts

| December 30, 2022

The new year is just around the corner, so it’s time for the January 2023 writing prompts! The word lists this month are borrowed from other sources. Word 1 is from Kick in the Creatives, which is one of my favorite sources for great prompts, for January 2023. Word 2 is from Natural Beach Living‘s […]

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: 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: 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 […]