Another week has entered the books. For me, I really enjoyed this week’s writing prompts. I found several characters and story ideas, or at least little sparks of stories in this week’s prompts. I know the point is to wake up the brain and get it shifted into a writing mood no matter what mood I started out in. But I do love it when I get ideas as well.
Hopefully you enjoyed this week as well. So shall we see what we will be looking at next week?
Monday, November 13th: She slipped out under the cover of darkness.
Tuesday, November 14th: He knew he would win.
Wednesday, November 15th: The faucet dripped.
Thursday, November 16th: Ivy covered one wall.
Friday, November 17th: The smell of smoke was strong in the air.
As always I won’t take too close a look at these because I don’t want my brain to think about them in advance. In case you ae wondering where the sentences come from, throughout the year I collect various sentences from random places; books, magazines, pod casts, tv shows, radios and random overheard conversations if I am really honest. I put the sentence on an index card and drop it into a box. Then in December I start pulling them out one at a time. If I remember where the sentence came from I drop it back in the box until I forget. The rest I start placing on the calendar. Random card with a random sentence assigned a day. I actually picked up a planner last weekend and after Thanksgiving I will start transferring the sentences to the calendar.
And that is all there is to it. I know, not a deep dark secret at all. I keep thinking that one day I will group them. Have five sentences in a row that give a setting and then the following week another five that start with strong emotions. I may look at doing secondary prompts like that next year. But for the main prompts I always like the complete randomness of them and the sometimes generic sentences.
And this is where I will leae you for the day. Have a wonder filled Friday and a fabulous Veteran’s Day weekend.
Ten til Midnight 