Category: Wacky Wednesday!

• Daily Prompt #41

  Hi all! I hope you are having a wonderfully Wacky Wednesday! Today, we will err on the silly side of the surreal and strange.  Have you ever noticed that many fables have a sort of rhythm to them? They roll and undulate–perfect for speaking out loud. One tool that can create that effect is repeating…

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  March 15, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Wacky Wednesday!

  Creative writing, fable, fantasy, Fiction, rhythm, Wacky Wednesday!, writing, writing prompt

• Daily Prompt #35

  Welcome to another Wacky Wednesday! What fun, silly, surreal, or strange thing have you encountered this week? Raining Cats and Dogs For this Wednesday, I want you to take a common metaphorical saying, like “it’s raining cats and dogs,” and write a scene in a world where that isn’t a metaphor. Where it really is…

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  March 8, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Wacky Wednesday!

  Creative writing, Fiction, flash, metaphor, Wacky Wednesday!, writing, writing prompt

• Daily Prompt #30

  Wacky Wednesday! Time to write something weird, something surreal, something monstrous, something silly. Today’s wackiness is going to draw from your own life. Our prompt will be another from the wonderful Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola. “Memory, in a sense, is imagination: an ‘imagining’ of the past, re-creating the sights, sounds,…

  nicwrites

  February 15, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Wacky Wednesday!

  brenda miller, creative non-fiction, Creative writing, hermit crab essay, Non-Fiction, suzanne paola, Tell It Slant, Wacky Wednesday!, writing, writing prompt

• 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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  February 8, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Wacky Wednesday!

  Creative writing, Fiction, horror, human monsters, monsters, Wacky Wednesday!, writing, writing horror, writing prompt

• Daily Prompt #16

  Wacky Wednesday comes again! For this week, our silly, surreal, or weird will be a headfirst dive into fantasy. A challenge that comes up often is, “How do we write fantasy in the short form?” Now, there are a number of beautiful examples of success in short fiction, but what about flash fiction? By its…

  nicwrites

  February 1, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Wacky Wednesday!

  Creative writing, fantasy, Fiction, flash, speculative fiction, Wacky Wednesday!, writing, writing prompt

• Daily Prompt #9

  From Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola, this Wacky Wednesday we are going to try a non-fiction prompt! Now, you can think of this as the beginning of something big, or just a germ of thought, but start by limiting yourself. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Set a limit of 400…

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  January 25, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Tell It Slant, Wacky Wednesday!

  creative non-fiction, Creative writing, Tell It Slant, Wacky Wednesday!, writing, writing prompt

• Daily Prompt #2

  This is day 2! Our first Wednesday together! We all know Wednesdays are wacky, so our Wednesday prompts will be all about the weird, the surreal, and the just kind of kooky. Silly Monsters I want you to describe a monster for me – as scary as you can make it! Big teeth, too many…

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  January 18, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Wacky Wednesday!

  Creative writing, Fiction, monsters, Wacky Wednesday!, writing, writing prompt