Writing Prompt: The Empty Office

You're sat at your desk in an open plan office. Your colleagues are gone. The cleaners have mopped the floors and loaded the dishwasher. It's raining outside. You're surfing the net trying to motivate yourself to get finished with your work so you can go home, but you can't face the walk in the weather....

Writing Prompt: Hated

There are some people who are in jobs that inspire venom. For instance, traffic wardens, tax collectors, politicians, lawyers, sports referees. Whatever we might think of these people and no matter how much you'd like to beat a traffic warden with a traffic cone or set a lawyer loose in the exercise yard of a...

Writing Prompt: The Wedding Day

In honour of the fuss everyone is making over the Royal Wedding, let's have some fun with this one. Most of us have been to a wedding. In most cases, there is something to tell about the big day, from embarrassing speeches, faux pas, drunken behaviour, wardrobe disasters and no-shows. Try to think of some...

Writing Prompt: Red Dress

I pulled hanger after hanger from the wardrobe creating a disorganised pile of tangled fabric and colour on the unmade bed. At the foot of the wardrobe I observed a mangled pile of shoes. Heels, flats, boots espadrilles, slippers and trainers in varying states of disrepair smiled up at me as if they were willing...

Writing Prompt: D is for Drag

This is a great word. You can use it a load of ways. To drag, it's a drag, to take a drag... Write a piece that incorporates this word or theme. I'm going to write about dragging a body from the back of car into the woods and about how the corpse got into the...

Writing Prompt: The Parade

Happy St. Patrick's Day. For today's writing prompt, try writing about something festive. How about writing a story about five friends that get separated during a St. Patrick's Day parade. What adventure does each of them have in trying to find each other?

Writing Prompt: Distractions/Excuses

Sometimes when writer's block hits, we think of a dozen or more things to do other than write. I looked back at the last post and it was a few days ago. Shame...on...me. Some of my excuses are as follows: I have laundry to do. The cat needs feeding. I have a hangover I need to...

Writing Prompt: Heroes

We've been bombarded by super hero films, comics and cartoons. Wouldn't it be fun to create your own superhero? Give your hero a colourful past, his powers, a sidekick (if you'd like) and describe his/her costume. Have fun. Thing about this, if you could have a super power, what would it be? Enjoy.

Writing Prompt: The thing in the closet

When we're kids, we have active imaginations, in most cases, more active than as adults. We imagine all sorts of creepy crawlies, monsters in the attic and things with sharp claws waiting to grab our ankles when we step off our beds. What was your monster in the closet? Write about childhood fears and how...

Writing Prompt: Love/Hate

Inspired by an old interview with Ray Bradbury. Make a list of 10 things you love and write about them. Write a list of 10 people you hate (or things you fear) and kill them (in your writing!) Enjoy.