Your Writing Starts Here: October Prompts
Let us commence writing this month
It’s prompt time again!
This is a thing I started in August, and I hope you will find it helpful. There’s a prompt for every day in October (thirty-one 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.
And, late-breaking news, my friend (and biz partner) Debbie sent me this article (gift link) about the best-selling book, Remarkably Bright Creatures. And, guess how it got started? From a writing prompt (well, really a writing exercise but same diff).
So, use your prompts people. Go forth and write.
(Paid subscribers, you’ll find the PDF download at the end.)
The Prompts
1.
Pumpkin spice latte. Yay or nay?
2.
There’s a fountain in the middle of an ancient square that spews purple and blue water.
3.
She bit into a home-grown tomato.
4.
Feet.
5.
Write about the last time you flew on an airplane.
6.
What’s it to you?
7.
Write about a time nature inspired you.
8.
Write about a time you hated and/or feared nature.
9.
Curses, foiled again.
10.
Blue, blue, my world is blue. (Listen to this while writing.)
11.
She tripped on the cobblestone walk.
12.
As the sun rose and lit the tree-covered, green hill, details emerged.
13.
I asked a man with bushy eyebrows and a stubby cigar for directions.
14.
The green plate.
15.
She wafted through his mind like a phantom presence.
16.
The worst meal you’ve ever eaten.
17.
When spirit talks.
18.
The earworm would not go away.
19.
This is a test.
20.
Ride like the wind.
21.
The last piece of bread.
22.
Write about something or someone you love but now no longer care for.
23.
Now that you mention it….
24.
That time you danced all night.
25.
A flash of light.
26.
We haven’t met yet.
27.
A crowded coffee shop. The normal hustle and bustle. And then a scream splits the air.
28.
Do you believe in ghosts? Does your character?
29.
Take it away.
30.
The last hurrah
31.
The veil between the worlds is thin this day. Write about it.
BONUS: Write to the photo below (taken in a church in Assisi, Italy. Not sure which church. There were a lot of them!)
And here, for my paid subscribers, is the PDF. See you all on Sunday!
Knitting season, here we come!
It’s October already? What the hell? 🤭