I admit. I fell off the writing wagon for about a month. This past week, I began writing again, and I’ve burned through almost all of the prompts in my prompt box. There are only about six more slips of paper in there. Will you help me fill it back up?
Feed me your favorite word, a vivid scene, an unlikely pairing. A piece of dialog, an object, a potent verb. I’ll write them on slips of paper and put them in my tea tin of ideas.
Some past prompts I’ve written from:
rolling pins
ocean
ink
thunderstorms
sun on my skin
You get the idea. I look forward to your words. Thank you!
Butterfly Mind 
37 responses to “Call for prompts”
This feels like “you are carrying” ! Here’s some ideas drawn from my work case:
an expired library card
a receipt for flowers
cotton swabs
one-half of a pair of scissors
These are excellent. Adding to the box. Thank you!
You’re welcome! Perhaps someday I will be in need of inspiration and you can help.
curious defenestration
spare parts
perpetual motion
I had to look up defenestration 😉
Did you find the Defenestration of Prague – the one where the priests land in pile of manure?
Library ( as opposed to the expired card, which is also good)
Half-dressed
Grit
Love! You and me are word-pals. I’ve written about grit before :-). However, I do not think it was a ten-minute write, so I’m adding it to the box. Thank you!
Thanks. I was actually thinking about the other grit, as in sand or its metaphorical equivalent. 🙂
Love this! Congratulations on getting your creative style on!
* Chocolate and chill
* Maps
* Stars at 3am
* Passion & Pancakes….not necessarily in that order….
* 1/2 a blanket
X
Brilliant. So excited to write about these! Added to the box.
Oh my pleasure! Thank you for asking us to be a part of it x
Hot dogs and vegans.
I’ll let you decide if that constitutes a vivid scene or an unlikely pairing.
Haha! There’s no telling what will happen in this one. Thanks Dennis :-).
Can we steal? These are awesome. I like bicycle bells, persnickety, coffee grinders, coloring books.
Robin’s egg blue
Shuttered windows
Raindrops falling on your head from tree leaves as you continue to sketch…
Just off the top of my head… Hope they might be useful. 🙂
Sharing mine:
– in the grand scheme of things
– serendipity
– half-full (as opposed to half-empty)
Cheers,
Rina
*tenacity *strawberries *firewood *lilac ribbons *sisters * oak trees *lychee dew drops
Spring
Waiting
Read between the lines
There’s a spring storm here at the moment. I love what it does with the lines in my drawings. New ways to explore, a bit frightening and exciting too.
Here are a few more for you:
wildflowers
road trip
barbeque
family vacation
Spanish Moss
Okay, Andrea, here goes:
Persevere
‘I took the road less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.’ From ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost.
Mountain(s)
Counterfeit. Also when I’m stuck I try to think of a strange collection of items in a shopping cart or a suitcase and what they could be used for all together (and the person who uses them).
Goosebumps
Word
Pour
Ice
Derelict
Canary Yellow and Slate Grey
Buying Guide for Pillows
Waffle
As the birds fly South, my volcano lies resting.
Tom Cox wrote a lovely piece in The Guardian recently on how a country walk can surround you with words more inspiring to the writing mind than the sort of thing you’re likely to be sitting amongst at home: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/25/a-good-walk-the-perfect-way-to-clear-your-head?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
So with this in mind, how about some words from my part of the world –
kissing gate
dry-stone wall
fingerpost
stile
Here are some prompts for you, Andrea
flaunt
heebie-jeebies
painful loyalty
an unexpected vice
You will never stop writing!
Butter
The Green Man (or Woman) of the woods
Eight year old giggling girls
😘 D.
Hands, especially the hands of an elderly person. They’ve done so much, if they could tell their story, I think it would be fascinating.
I really like “hands” What a great prompt! “Older hands that have done so much…a start to a wonderful story! Thanks! 🙂
the road
mountain mist
black holes
tinker bell
This is a great idea! 🙂
Lilacs
The Southern Cross
Horse hair violin bow
Shiba Inu
Witch hazel (imagine a girl named witch hazel after the flower)
Weeping willow
Tulips
What a great idea! Promt Box is pretty genius on it’s own, let alone a 10 minute writing session. Thank you for allowing others’ ideas to inspire you!
-morning whiskers (pertaining to a dog)
-light of life
-a feeling of euphoria
-how traffic was the death of me
A couple of prompts:
I got some mail…
I found this old photo…
Gravity
Smoke in the sky
Pain
Bird seed
A rocking chair and a cats tail
Lavender
I
Love your prompt & writing daily idea. Such discipline and structure seems more than I can sustain for more than a week. Kudos to you for staying with it.
Just love the idea ‘call for prompts’. I think I will copy this from you on my blog. Would love to write short stories. 🙂
* Holland
* Spring is in the air
* Sitting on the beach