Your Writing Starts Here: September Prompts
Your Writing Starts Here: September Prompts
School's back in session, time to get serious about your writing again. These prompts will help.
It’s prompt time!
This is a thing I started in August, and I hope you will find it helpful. There’s a prompt for every day in September (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.
So here we go.
The Prompts
1.
If I were a rich person….
2.
What does your story need? What do you need?
3.
Right now, I am _________________.
4.
If the rain comes. (Cue the Beatles song Rain while you’re writing to this one.)
5.
Write about your childhood bedroom.
6.
Favorite thing in your house.
7.
“I hate that. It’s so creepy.”
8.
Red, socks, bus. Make those words into a sentence and write to it.
9.
If you hate someone, set them free.
10.
It’s all in the wrist.
11.
Write about something or someone you said goodbye to.
12.
What’s something new in your life? (This is especially helpful to ask a character, since stories start when something new happens in their ordinary world.)
13.
She sat on a rock by the river.
14.
My stolen life.
15.
Write about a medical scare.
16.
The best meal you’ve ever eaten.
17.
Describe the place where you currently live, room by room.
18.
You can go your own way.
19.
A year ago today.
20.
Coffee or a nap when you’re tired?
21.
Walk, run, ride a bike, drive, go by bus, fly, take the train?
22.
Write about your fondest wish.
23.
What is the color of love?
24.
That time you learned to read.
25.
In the lush, green, garden.
26.
Your first kiss.
27.
A time when you felt peaceful and calm.
28.
Running away.
29.
Three men in a boat.
30.
Starry, starry night.
That’s if for now. Happy writing and have fun! PDF for paid subscribers is below the goofy photo I couldn’t resist.
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