Writing Prompt #218: The house creaks with every gust of wind and every movement of the people inside.
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Writing Prompt #217
Writing Prompt #217: Her breathing was slow and steady like she was asleep but he couldn’t wake her up.
Writing Challenge #16
Writing Challenge #16: Pick two random chapters from any book or books. Use the first sentence of one chapter to begin your story or poem and the last sentence from the other chapter to end your story or poem.
Writing Prompt #216
Writing Prompt #216: She shivered but not from cold, something wasn’t right in this house.
Writing Prompt #215
Writing Prompt #215: He feels the knife sink into his calf just below his knee and his leg give way, then the pain hits him.
Writing Prompt #214
Writing Prompt #214: All she can hear is the deep breathing of the sleeping beast.
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Writing Prompt #15:
‘I’m leaving, I can’t bare the reminder of you being swept away but I’ll never forget and I promise to visit.
Writing Prompt #213
Writing Prompt #213: He can see it’s a list but he can’t read it, he wishes he paid more attention in school when he had the chance.
Writing Prompt #212
Writing Prompt #212: Days pass and she’s still not back from her mission, he tries not to worry, she always comes back.
Writing Prompt #211
Writing Prompt #211: The carpet was threadbare and the paint was cracked but the place had potential.
Writing Prompt #210
Writing Prompt #210: He peeked quickly around the corner but the tunnel was deserted.
Writing Challenge #15
Writing Challenge #15: Choose a stranger you saw recently and write a story or poem from their point of view.
Writing Prompt #209
Writing Prompt #209: When she saw he was gone she jumped up grabbing her knife prepared to hunt him down.
Writing Prompt #208
Writing Prompt #208: He stopped crying wiping his nose on his sleeve and looked around.
Writing Prompt #207
Writing Prompt #207: She tripped and sprawled face first into the sand, her cloak tangled around her making it hard to rise and run.
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Writing Prompt #14:
‘I’m leaving.’
‘But where will you go? There’s nowhere else.’
‘Oh but there is.’
‘Don’t tell me you believe the stories.’
Writing Prompt #206
Writing Prompt #206: He listened to the click of the phone on the other end being hung up the second they heard his voice.
Writing Prompt #205
Writing Prompt #205: She had to find her partner before it was too late.
Writing Prompt #204
Writing Prompt #204: His phone rang, startling a yelp out of him that made the cat jump and hiss.
Writing Prompt #203
Writing Prompt #203: There was nothing left to indicate she had ever been there.
Writing Challenge #14
Writing Challenge #14: Pick a number for example five. Go to a bookshelf take your fifth book from your bookshelf, go to page five and find the fifth line. Now write a story or poem starting with that line.
Writing Prompt #202
Writing Prompt #202: He looked around at the posters on the wall, the blanket on the bed and the clutter on the shelves, the room was no longer his.
Writing Prompt #201
Writing Prompt #201: Her paper bubbled under each tear that landed on it.
Writing Prompt #200
Writing Prompt #200: He smirked at her and she stopped rattling the bars knowing it was only adding to his enjoyment.
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Writing Prompt #13:
‘You’ll need this.’
‘For what?’
‘So we can still talk no matter what distance separates us.’
Writing Prompt #199
Writing Prompt #199: The owl peered down at her suspiciously, she peered back not quite able to make out what it was without her glasses.
Writing Prompt #198
Writing Prompt #198: The fairy is gone before he can blink, he’s not even sure it was there.
Writing Prompt #197
Writing Prompt #197: They all stare blankly at him like he’s told them the earth is round.
Writing Prompt #196
Writing Prompt #196: He dreamed of the castles and forests he’d grown up in, such a long way from this lonely concrete jungle.
Writing Challenge #13
Writing Challenge #13: Describe the first time you experienced something.
Writing Prompt #195
Writing Prompt #195: She looked at the brown streaks on her shirt and sighed changing into a clean one.
Writing Prompt #194
Writing Prompt #194: The rain came down the chimney and flowed in under the doors.
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Writing Prompt #12
‘We’ll have to find another way to get to those mountains.’
‘Why can’t we just walk through the flowers?’
‘Because we won’t make it through them alive.’
Writing Prompt #193
Writing Prompt #193: He barely slept but that was not surprising with the riots going on in the streets below.
Writing Prompt #192
Writing Prompt #192: The smell of sawdust made her sneeze so hard she thought her head might come off.
Writing Prompt #191
Writing Prompt #191: She gripped the rope tight and pulled as hard as she could, she had to get him out before they were both too tired.
Writing Prompt #190
Writing Prompt #190: The keys clattered on the bench and his shoes hit the wall with two thunks leaving faint brown marks to join the others.
Writing Prompt #189
Writing Prompt #189: She had his eyes, the same shade of green speckled with flecks of gold.
Writing Challenge #12
Writing Challenge #12: Choose a colour now spend five minutes looking around and taking note of things you see that are that colour. Now use your notes to make a story or poem.