Your Writing Starts Here: November Prompts
Your Writing Starts Here: November Prompts
Inspiration for cozy autumn writing sessions
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Happy Halloween! It’s prompt time!
I started sending these out monthly in August, and I hope you find it helpful. There’s a prompt for every day in November (thirty of them) listed here and paid subscribers, you get a PDF you can download, print and keep in your journal. Or by your computer if that’s how you roll.
In my August prompt post, I did a whole thing on how to use them, best practices, yadda, yadda, yadda. To save me from writing it all out again, you can read that as a reminder here. (It’s also in the PDF for paid subscribers.) Two basic things to remember: prompts are a suggestion, not a directive. Let your pen go where it will and don’t worry about sticking with the subject. And, when a prompts says “you” that can mean writing directly from your life, or writing as your character.
Feel free to drop some of your results into the comments or just let me know how they worked for you.
The Prompts
1.
A room you can't forget. What happened there?
2.
Your favorite tree. (In the infamous words of Barbara Walters, if you were a tree, what tree would you be?)
3.
Something you regret.
4.
Something you don't regret.
5.
The worst thing that could happen.
6.
The best thing that could happen.
7.
Elements of your favorite warm, cozy, winter room. Write it out then set a scene there.
8.
It's way too hot in here.
9.
She was overwhelmed by a coughing fit.
10.
But honestly, he shouldn't do that.
11.
A man and a woman are arguing in a coffee shop. Write the scene.
12.
The key doesn't work.
13.
The first snowfall.
14.
The smell of rain.
15.
Do you believe in love at first sight?
16.
So what if I don't?
17.
The rabbit hopped by and disappeared beneath a bush.
18.
The most memorable meal you've eaten in the last year.
19.
Off the map.
20.
It'll be fun, they said.
21.
The power of the meek.
22.
Your favorite toy as a child. Or even as a grown-up!
23.
Life without smart phones.
24.
A woman is fleeing down a crowded street. What is she running from?
25.
Coffee or tea?
26.
Cake or pie? (I was once at a dinner where we debated this for a lengthy amount of time. You can do the same as you write.)
27.
When the rain fell, it reminded her of that time….
28.
Horses galloping across a field.
29.
Will it ever end?
30.
It's over already?
And for you lovely paid subscribers, here’s the PDF.
See you on Sunday for my weekly love letter. Be careful out there. Sending my love.
