This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (September 14-20)

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 a poem using the words cinnamon, cartographer, illicit, and beguile.
Tuesday: What poem would you want to read on a tee shirt? Draft up to six lines.
Wednesday: Imagine the world underwater. Try to describe movement towards something in a free verse poem.
Thursday:  We’re bringing back one of our old prompts! Take ten lines to describe your favourite junk food.
Friday: Write a poem that reads like a refreshing sip of gin on your front porch after work.
Saturday: Write a poem in the style of a musical instrument that you love. It can even be lyrics.
Sunday:  Write a narrative poem inspired by a question in TheAnd’s card game sample: http://theand.us/

Fiction

Monday: Take 300 words to describe the feeling of your comforter.
Tuesday: Craft a character’s intent as a bullet-pointed business plan.
Wednesday: Craft a page of dialogue where no character says more than two words a line.
Thursday: Try writing a scene inspired by your favourite Victorian author.
Friday: What happens to all the lost girls?
Saturday: Write 650 words entirely from the point of view of a pet. Cat, dog, snake, your choice. Give it rich personality.
Sunday: What is the title of your best friend’s Memoir? Create the title and the synopsis for the back cover.

 

 

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