Mini Writing Prompts and Tips, by Wendy H. Jones
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As writers, I am going to encourage all readers of this blog to take something up for Lent, or at least the month of March. Take up writing every day. Try to introduce something different into your work in progress, or your blog, or what every you are writing. Here are some writing prompts to help you. There will be forty to cover the whole of Lent. If you don't want to do them all then feel free to pick or choose. If you don't like the days prompt challenge yourself to find another. They might also act as idea generators for adapted versions of the prompt.
1. A woman who wears nothing but purple.
2. A group of under fives enter a bookshop for a World Book Day event
3. An old man sits alone in an otherwise empty church
4. A child squeals with laughter
5. A mother waves her son goodbye as he goes of to war
6. Use these words - grip, change, fascinating, box
7. A church prepares for a Sunday service
8. Modern slavery
9. On this day in 1959 the Barbie doll made her debut at the National Toy Fair in New York. Therefore it's National Barbie Day
10. A blizzard cuts a small town off from its neighbours
11. A group of children play hopscotch
12. A bloody knife is found underneath a bush
13. A scruffy dog sits alone in the rain
14. A small child with bright yellow wellington boots jumps in puddles.
15. A pothole big enough to swallow a bus opens up in a busy city street
16. A milk float drives along a derelict street
17. The smell of freshly baked bread is carried on the breeze
18. Today is national awkward moments day (You could have a lot of fun with that one)
19. A man and a woman kiss under a parasol
20. A deserted beach
21. A shoe is found by the side of the road
22. A young man picks up a bible that he has not read for the last two years
23. A second hand paperback book
24. A man with a fedora walks into a secret bar
24. A winding mountain road
25. A packed city street
26. A protest March
27. A crisp red apple
28. A character with the name Saratoga Smith
29. March 29th is National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day. ACW members can substitute this for cheesecake
30. A cold beer on a hot day
31. A cup of freshly brewed lapsang souchong tea
32. A soldier stands to attention
33. A plane taking off
34. An author writes feverishly throughout the night
35. A Rolex watch is found inside a seedy bar
36. A family watches by the bed of a sick grandmother
37. A city dump
38. A teenager watches in horror as the battery dies on their phone
39. A boy and a girl help an old man carry his shopping home
40. A family picnic on a windswept beach
I hope these have given you some fresh ideas. Fell free to mix them up and make changes to fit your story. They are meant as a bit of fun and to help you write through every day of lent.
About the Author
Wendy H. Jones is the author of the best selling DI Shona McKenzie Mystery series of crime novels set in Dundee. Killer's Crew, the fifth booking the series was released in November, 2016. Dagger's Curse, the first book in her Fergus and Flora, Young Adult Mystery series was released on 10th September, 2016. She also has one non fiction book, Power Packed Book Marketing: Sell More Books.
Thank you, Wendy. You are full of good ideas!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. Hope it helps
DeleteGreat writing prompts, Wendy. I'll have to see whether they will fit into my Lent schedule. I am already preparing posts for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/, so perhaps not. Sue
ReplyDeleteI know there are a lot of challenges, so I understand Susan. This was just a slightly different one to give people who needed it an extra little bit of inspiration
DeleteBy the way, all the very best for your Lent challenge.
DeleteGreat prompt ideas! I feel quite inspired .... if only I weren't about to rush out to work!
ReplyDeleteYou'll hold that thought all day and rush to your computer the minute you get in
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