Feel free to go in any direction these prompts take you. Apply them to any genre or type of writing. Change the gender or any other details as needed. Have fun. Get creative. Let go. Try something unusual. Expand yourself.
We're aiming for 1,000 words or so max to be read out loud for off-the-cuff feedback (printing is optional but can be helpful), but if it grows (and we hope it does) definitely consider submitting it again for a full critique process.
February Prompts:
--You inadvertently run an important paper through the shredder.
--A figure in a famous painting begins communicating with an art museum patron. [Extra credit: Make this based on a piece from The Hyde Collection…]
--A man opens his mailbox to find an envelope containing a set of instructions.
--A lawyer discovers the his client is guilty of the horrible crime for which he was just found innocent.
--While at a family reunion, a teenage brother and sister find an old suitcase filled with money under their uncle's bed.
--A man comes to believe that he is an emissary of God when he survives a plan crash in which all other passengers are killed.
--"And that's when I quit."
(taken from The Writer's Book of Matches by Writers Digest Books)
Look back here for prompts to be added around the last Thursday of each month.
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