Writing Prompts

May Writing Prompts

Here are some writing prompts made up from May (and technically also from April).

Roll Prompt: Sleepover at the Library

The Rolls: 2 = Horror [Genre/Ambiance] 2 = Workplace/School [Location] 5 = Friend [Character] 2 = Survival [Theme/Direction] 12 = Versus Supernatural [Conflict] The amount of 2s in there is a little unnerving but it all has worked out in a pretty easy manner to work with. A horror story in a school with a…

Roll to Write

They say that when you’re uncertain, flip a coin. It’s not that the coin will really decide for you but that you’ll realise what you want it to land on while it’s in the air. The act of flicking the coin just gets you in motion. In learning more about myself, I’ve found that if…

Picture Prompt

She knew not how long she had been floating, neither a guess of seconds or minutes to be made. It could have been for a moment or for eternity. The spanning sky of sunset colours blanketed anything else not of the ocean. Or was it a sunrise? She couldn’t remember having slept but perhaps she…

Photo Prompted Writing

His stomping is stopped as he comes to the edge of a river. At first he thinks about just turning and storming along it, but the look of the calm surface halts him, soothes him, and beckons him forward. Shuffling closer, he puts the tips of his shoes against the edge of the river bank…

Prompted: Listen When Spoken To

Her feet move along the dirt path, dragging with a grating rhythm as the road is remade with shuffled rock. The sky moves above, as gentle as a quiet ocean in the air, but with a depth of colour that promises an entire rearrangement of the little rocks on the road. Thunder murmurs beyond, a…

WriteO Character Prompt: Pepper

Pepper Marigold is was some describe as a prodigy and others describe as a brat. She has chestnut skin and bright green eyes that shimmer when she’s about to get up to no good, and curly dark red hair that almost always sits up in a perky ponytail, giving her almost a hyper appearance. She…

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