Tag: Writing Prompt
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The Hut-Hunters
Today’s writing prompt at The Haunted Wordsmith Blog is the image below. It was a crisp Sunday morning in the tiny hamlet of Gnomeville. Early fall was the best time of year because all the goblins and ghosts were focused on the upcoming holiday. They had neither the time nor interest in harassing the wee…
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Farquhar
Here are the words for the Sunday Wordle #368 That morning, the sky was a shade of blue that hardly ever happens— kind of a light turquoise, maybe a little darker. A warm wind blew from the west, causing the leaves on the willow trees to shimmer in the morning sunlight. The Farquhar family farm…
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Street Instinct
Today’s challenge at MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie is Same Same But Different Your ‘Same Same But Different’ task is to take the five challenge words and NOT use them in your writing. That’s right, you need to dig out your thesaurus and find a synonym for each word instead. Your words this week are: blanket cushion cold…
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The Crimewave
The weekend writing prompt is “headline.” Exactly 55 words. The headline of The East Podunk Enquirer read, “Crash Test Dummy Found in Stolen Cadillac.” The residents of the tiny hamlet were uneasy: it was the fifth incident this month. “It’s a dadgum crimewave is what it is.” “Well, heck yeah! I knew that’d happen if…
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A Tale of Two Spiders
This week’s writing prompt at 3LineTales is the image below. “Margo, I am going to try to remain calm while you explain to me exactly what happened in this room while I was gone.” “Uh, well Mom, Jackie & I were finger-painting and everything was fine and then there was this gigantic spider that…
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