This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (March 23 – March 30)

Each day, we tweet fiction and poetry writing prompts to help writers loosen up and let loose. Get started with the prompts below! Follow us on twitter (@tatestreetorg) to be inspired daily, or subscribe to the blog to get a digest of the prompts every Sunday!

Poetry

Monday: Write an elegy for John Keats’ Tweets.
Tuesday: Write a poem formatted like a restaurant menu.
Wednesday: Write a poem in which you use “Jesus” as a verb.
Thursday: Find a prose poem and attempt to emulate the style.
Friday: Life is short! Write a 16 line poem from the perspective of a wave being born at sea and ending life as it rolls onto the beach.
Saturday: Write a poem that includes fill-in-the-blank blanks.
Sunday: Octothorpes live on: start each stanza of a poem using this punctuation.

Fiction

Monday: A character claims they know what happens after death.
Tuesday: Write the scene where a father realizes he doesn’t want his child.
Wednesday: Write a horror scene with no death, injuries, violence, or physical danger.
Thursday: Write a scene where a character isn’t sure if he or she is alive or dead.
Friday: Have a main character whose life’s work is studying centenarians.
Saturday: Write a short story about J Afred Prufrock’s childhood.
Sunday: Write a story in which the main character is the frontman of your least favorite band.

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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