Category: Daily Writing Prompts
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Daily Prompt #26
Welcome back to Saturday Workshop! Remember our Workshop Best Practices, and please participate and have fun! For this week, we’ll go back to poetry for our workshop. We will also turn again to the pages of Imaginative Writing. Try This 3.14 “An ode is a serious, meditative lyric poem that treats a noble subject in…
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Daily Prompt #25
Flash Friday! Today’s prompt is inspired by Bruce Holland Rogers’ story “Dinosaur.” Life In 750 words or less, move through the whole life of a character. This can be fiction, yourself, or someone you know. Think of it as a sort of highlights reel. What can you convey about this person and their life in…
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Daily Prompt #24
For our Thursday Thoughts today, let’s continue the trend from Saturday and consider parents and guardians. For Saturday Workshop, we all made lists about our parents and/or guardians, but only wrote about one. For today, write about the other one! (More) Parents On Saturday you wrote lists of unique traits of your parents and/or guardians,…
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Daily Prompt #23
For this Wacky Wednesday, the name of the game is horror! Horror can also be many other things, fantasy, sci-fi, fiction. I don’t care which one you pick today, as long as it’s scary! I’ve been re-reading Stephen King’s On Writing, so horror is on the brain. Human Monsters There is nothing scarier than a…
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Daily Prompt #21
Get your imagination on! It’s another fantastic Monday! Have I convinced you to like Mondays yet? For our fiction prompt this week, I want you to write a triptych. “A painted or carved triptych typically has three hinged panels, and the two outer panels can be folded in towards the central one. A literary or…
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Daily Prompt #20
It’s time again for some Sunday Verse! Are you feeling poetic? For today’s prompt, we’re going to do something called a Golden Shovel poem. This set of poetic rules was invented by the poet Terrence Hayes, and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks. The original golden shovel is The Golden Shovel, after We Real Cool. The Rules…
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Daily Prompt #19
Welcome back to Saturday Workshop! As always, please share your response to today’s prompt in the comments, or your opinions about my response! As a refresher of our workshop practices to keep this a productive and healthy space, here’s a brief version of our Workshop Best Practices. Today’s prompt will be non-fiction. Parents Start by…
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Daily Prompt #18
Flash Friday! Do you have anything fun you’re looking forward to this weekend? I’m thinking I’ll rustle up the motivation to make a Costco run. For this week, we will draw again from Imaginative Writing. This particular prompt is from the “Setting” chapter’s section on mood and symbol. Remember to think flash! I usually compare…
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