This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (Nov. 9 – 15)

Each day, we tweet fiction and poetry writing prompts to help writers get out of their shells. Follow us on twitter (@TSHighSociety) to be inspired daily, or subscribe to the blog to get a digest of the prompts every Sunday!

Poetry Writing Prompts

• Sunday: Attempt to write a poem backwards–from the last line to the first line.
• Monday: Slant rhyme challenge: Work on a series of nearly rhyming couplets, where you only use slant rhyme. 18 lines.
• Tuesday: Craft a line about a holiday & an emotion; rewrite the line 10x by replacing each word with a synonym.
• Wednesday:  “Knock Knock // love” Or: Write a three-word poem to make us laugh, cry, wonder.
• Thursday: “I was the quicker picker-upper.” Write a confessional poem using only product slogans and/or commercial taglines.
• Friday: “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Write a 20-line poem that makes grammatical sense, but not literal sense.
• Saturday: Make it new! Select your ten favorite poems and craft a cento from your favorite lines. (What’s a cento?)

Fiction Writing Prompts

• Sunday: Develop a character’s backstory by cataloguing the pets (real or imagined) that the character has owned.
• Monday: 3 types of mood/atmosphere. Describe a common object in 3 sentences w/ one mood; repeat & rewrite w/ the next 2 moods.
• Tuesday: Write a scene (w/ dialogue) between two characters who shouldn’t be friends, but are.
• Wednesday: Ruh roh! Write a story about an existential crisis in the life of your favorite cartoon character from childhood.
• Thursday: Happy birthday, R.L. Stevenson! Write a story about a character who receives “the wrong box.“
• Friday: “It’s [a flash flood] on your wedding day!” Write a story in the first-person plural about a natural disaster at a wedding.
• Saturday: Make it snappy! Write a complete story that unfolds in a single action or gesture (e.g sharpening a pencil; riding an escalator; a kiss).

How did it go this week? Which prompt was most generative? We’d love to know! Tell us in the comments below.

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