Writing Prompt #759: Beginnings and Endings
Start your story with: Maddy watched the strange man crawl out of the escape pod, his arms shaking, his eyes wild.
End your story with: This man had seen things; things Maddy would never full understand.
Writing Prompt #758: Genre Blender
Write a story that combines elements of these two genres:
Police Procedural
AND
Paranormal Romance
Writing Prompt #757: Name That Story!
Write a story with this title:
Condos of the Damned
Writing Prompt #756: A Genre, a Person, and a Problem
All this stuff. Use it in your story:
Genre: techno thriller
Person: a birdwatcher
Problem: a cult has taken over the local grocery store
Writing Prompt #755: Sad Libs
Fill in the blank with something sad and use it in your sad, sad story:
Lori didn’t want to leave town, but when Sandy _________, she felt she didn’t have any choice,
Writing Prompt #754: Person, Place, Thing!
Use these things in your absolutely fascinating story:
a college student who doesn’t know they have magical powers, a struggling coffee shop, a comet
Writing Prompt #753: Junk Drawer
Here’s a bunch of random stuff I found. Use it all in your story:
a mall food court, a magical station wagon, a throne made of garbage, a cat costume, an unbreakable glass door, a red button, a Lisa Frank notebook filled with weird writing
Writing Prompt #752: Do as I Say!
Write a story about someone who is really good at something they hate.
Writing Prompt #751: Seven Stupid Words
Expand your vocabulary! Use all of these splendiferous words in your story:
machination, divert, foray, vexatious, saunter, screed, ruddy
Writing Prompt #750: Three Things!
Use all three of these in your ding-dang story:
a vat of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, a boombox that won’t shut off, a clock that only runs backward
Writing Prompt #749: The Blank Is Your Mom: That’s What She Said Edition
Fill in the blank and use this line of dialogue in your story:
“I would have won the cake walk if it hadn’t been for _______.”
Writing Prompt #748: A Genre, a Person, and a Problem
Use all of this in your story:
Genre: crime
Person: a cooking show host with a floundering career
Problem: a beloved local diner is in danger of being closed
Writing Prompt #747: Seven Stupid Words
Here’s seven words. Use them all in your story:
contravene, travelogue, gauzy, traipse, splendiferous, dynasty, throng
Writing Prompt #746: Do as I Say!
Write a story that takes place in a suburban subdivision populated entirely by celebrity impersonators.
Writing Prompt #745: Person, Place Thing!
Three nouns. Put ‘em in your story:
a magician, a music video shoot, a bucket of orange liquid
Writing Prompt #744: It’s the End of the Story as I Wrote It
End your story with this sentence:
I turned around and shrugged; there was nothing left to do and I had to go to work in the morning.
Writing Prompt #743: Three Things
Three random things. Use them all in your story. Or don’t!
a pile of pile of broken e-scooters, a notebook filled with writing, an ouija board