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Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #26

Here we are once again, at Saturday.  How does that keep happening?  Its a miracle.  And here are your prompts for the week.  Remember, for a dose of daily inspiration, check out my Tumblr blog, where I post a new prompt every day (except for the rare occasion when I forget).  Happy writing!

#177 The wind howled and the rain poured down.  She stared out at the falling water, mesmerized.  It reminded her of the time that…..

#178 It’s Martin Luther King day.  Write about freedom.  What does it mean to you? Your character? For some it is a very high value( i.e., having freedom to set your own schedule, do the work you want, etc.), others, not so much. Where do you fall on the spectrum?

#179 Write about a time when the clock ticked so slowly you thought you’d die of boredom.  Now write about a time when the minutes flew by—and you actually wanted them to slow down.

#180  That shiver of dread.  Because, when she looked out the window, she saw….

#181  Family, love it or hate it—either way, it shapes us.  Is your character (or you) part of a close-knit family, or one that could care less about each other? How did this affect him or her growing up?  How does it affect him now?

#182 She got so damn mad at herself when she wasted time that way, which was often.

#183  You're sitting in a booth in a bar, working on your laptop.  A man and a woman sit in the booth next door and you hear them argue.

"You always want to do such stupid things," she says.

"But at least I'm not a stick-in-the-mud like you," he answers back.

Write the rest of their argument.

0 thoughts on “Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #26

  1. J.D.

    Number #179 Last week I read Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time.” He devotes considerable space in the book to the Theory of Relativity. Fits so well with your post about ticking clocks. I’m from the old school that says if you read something complicated it makes you smart, even if you don’t understand a word. lol. We do it all the time. We buy new clubs to learn how to golf, boats to become expert fishermen, books to learn how to write. And it helps, no doubt. So, I’m certain I’ll get a call from CERN tomorrow begging me to come to Switzerland and help with the Large Hadron Collider. It’s probably the batteries.

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