This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (June 8-14)

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: Craft an epigram describing how you feel in your shoes today.
Tuesday: Write a poem about where you are without saying anything about the look of the place.
Wednesday:  Take one of your poems and cut out its heart. Reshape it into another poem. Does it send the same message?
Thursday: Try to personify a childhood note in a poem.
Friday: At what moment are you your most vulnerable? craft a free verse on that feeling.
Saturday: What was your favourite children’s book? Craft a poem inspired by it’s core moral story.
Sunday: Write a poem where every line starts with the same word or phrase.

At a loss for a children’s story? Try My personal favourite:

Fiction

Monday: Create a 500-word character study on an aging super hero.
Tuesday: Take a paragraph to describe the strawberries without the words tart, seedy, red or firm.
Wednesday: Take a foreign story, distill it to the major plot points and write a short piece using what you find….
Thursday: Write two letters from two different characters to the other.
Friday: It’s Flash Fiction Friday! Today, write 300 words on the person standing in the middle of a road at night.
Saturday: As the last match goes out in the forest, the protagonist turns to their companion and says…
Sunday: Take your character through his or her typical Sunday routine.  What are the highlights? What do they dread?

 

 

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