Word Play Writing Prompts

Monkey, a photo by eirikref on Flickr.

For today's creative writing prompts, I would like you to use at least 5 of the words or phrases below in a short story, essay or poem.

Enjoy!

Words:
essence, stern, concrete, sorrow, flying ball, shadows, curve, conquer, tangled, contortion, life, worn out, bubble, hula-hoop, neck, root, pressing down,
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Poem in Your Pocket Writing Prompts

Heart Shutters, a photo by GenevaLife on Flickr.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

- Emily Dickinson


HAPPY POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY!  Today I am happy to offer poem in your pocket poetry prompts and the beautiful poem above by Emily Dickinson.  But I did not forget my fiction writers.  There is a story prompt for you below. 

Enjoy your day and don't leave the house with a poem in your pocket.  Here are some more pocket poems. 

Poetry Prompts: Write a pocket-sized poem of 7 lines or less on any subject, or use the picture for inspiration.

OR

Write a poem that is 10 lines or less that starts with the line
"If I can. . . "


Story Prompt:  Write a scene that is going on behind the shutters in the pictures.  Use only two characters, but they both do not have to be human.

Hunger Games Writing Prompts

53:366(Y2) - The Hunger Games, a photo by Nomadic Lass on Flickr.

Today's writing prompts are inspired by The Hunger Games. Whether you know anything about the book or movie, you will be able to respond to the prompt below inspired by quotes Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.” - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Poetry and Essay prompt: Think about things that fill your emotional hunger. What, besides food, keeps you alive? Free-write a list for one minute. After a minute is up, pick one thing from your list and start an essay or a poem.
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Picture Word Association Writing Prompts

Canadian swan. [Explored March 29, 2012], a photo by kaybee07 on Flickr.

For today's creative writing prompts, I want you to look at this picture and free write words, only words, for one minute.

To get you started, I will tell you the first word that came to my mind when I saw this beautiful swan was "transformation."

After you free-write your words for one minute, select one of the words from your list to start a poem, story, essay, play, song, etc. Give yourself 7 minutes to go with that and see what you get.

As always, feel free to share a bit of what you end up with in the comments section.

Enjoy!

Stretching the Truth Writing Prompts

Giraffe, a photo by Martin Pettitt on Flickr.

"Tell all the truth, but tell it slant." Emily Dickinson

For today's writing prompt, I want you to think of an event that happened in your life (happy or sad) and turn it into fiction. Make it interesting by stretching the truth. Make changes from the original story as you see fit.

Start by free-writing about the first incident that comes to mind, making the changes as you write along. Free-write for 15 minutes.

Then. . .

you can take the fictional situation you started to create and develop it into either a poem or a short story.

St. Patrick's Day Writing Prompts

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Before starting today's creative writing prompts, I would like you to enjoy a little bit of Ireland through this link http://imagesofireland.tripod.com/Antrim_County.htm#Childhood .

1.  After you enjoy the journey to Ireland through the Irish eyes of  Sheelagh's "Childhood Memories in White Park Bay," write a snippet of one of your own childhood memories.   Write for 10 minutes without stopping.

When the time is up, take you idea and turn it into a short memoir or a poem.  Or, if you want to get creative with the true story, change the details and turn it into fiction.

2.  And for another option, spend two minutes writing down everything green you think of starting with things within your vision, then expanding.  After that, pick something from your list and begin to create something from that. 

3.  You may also enjoy last year's St. Patrick's Day creative writing prompts if you haven't already.  Just click http://promptsforwriters.blogspot.com/2011/03/heres-to-ireland.html

Enjoy!!!

Writing Prompts With a Bench

Untitled, a photo by Joost J. Bakker IJmuiden on Flickr.

For today's free-write prompt, look at the picture and write a scene about a person who comes to sit on this bench. You can put a second person in the scene, too, and add dialogue, or you can focus on one character and write out the details of why he or she is there and what is going through his or her mind today and why.


OR

Respond to this quote:

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. -- Lewis Thomas


OR

If you had time to sit on this bench alone today, what would you be thinking about?