May prompts

May prompts

--Imagine you're a songwriter & write the track list for your first album (toasted-cheese.com)

or

--Take a character from one of your stories and examine his or her iPod playlist. What 10 songs best describe the character?

(writersdigest.com)

--Write about a mirror or other polished/reflective surface (toasted-cheese.com)

and/or

--Write about a reflection in the mirror. (davidrm.com)

--Change the color in a common phrase, e.g. "Green as night" (toastedcheese.com)

or

--Write [a poem] about the color red or another color. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does the color make you feel? What things do you associate with that color?) (creative-writing-now.com)

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--Use a phrase in a foreign language

and/or

--Listen to some music from a non-English speaking country

and/or

--Write an accent

--Write a dialog scene using only quotes from movies

or

--Write an interior monologue

Use a made-up expletive

Use the following words:

--combination, song, entrance, heat, hanging

--brown, swaying, massive, swell, moment

--cigarette, seemed, amongst, mercurial, stomach

--passage, unrestricted, busk, coastwise, outasight

--river, close, bats, inside, increased

--connector, wrenching, counterweight, overtired, capriccioso

(toasted-cheese.com)

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Poetry prompts:

--Write a poem about yourself in which nothing is true

--Write a poem about something or someone you lost

--Write a poem using all of the following words: exquisite, visit, glisten

(creative-writing-now.com/creative-writing-prompts.html)

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Free Writing Prompts:

--Use the following phrase as a focal point to write from:

   "The stain will not come out..."

--Using the following phrase as a starting point write for 20 minutes without self editing:

   "Collapsing under a canopy of green…"

Prose Prompts:

--Write two pages (500 words) with the scenario of a character urgently needing to get in contact with a family member.

--Write using the adage, "these things happen in threes."

(davidrm.com)