Write, share, repeat!

Last time I asked you to consider common prompts that everyone in class could write and post about on our class blog. We'll continue with that today.

First, I received a whole bunch of new and interesting themed-submission requests from various creative writing journals:

https://authorspublish.com/52-themed-submissions-calls-for-april-2022/

There's a lot of good stuff here! Scroll through and find what interests you, and do some writing on your own in your notebooks.

Then after the brain break, post some of your own ideas and/or anything from this list that seems like it would be a good "common prompt" for the whole class to contribute to. Post these in the comments.

We'll discuss and possibly vote on which prompts we'd like to do.

Also be sure to check out the information on the Chang-Kolodziej award for prose fiction and nonfiction on this blog.


Comments

  1. Letitia MoffittApril 6, 2022 at 8:21 AM

    This one seems like it would be good for a common prompt:
    Escape anthology: “Ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot or purely in your own mind? … We’re looking for short prose—fiction or creative nonfiction—that explores the need to leave, to escape, to run. We love a speculative slant, whatever that means to you. It can mean the strange or surreal. It can mean horror or fantasy. It can simply mean it’s not what you’re supposed to wish for.”

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  2. LiliApril 6, 2022 at 8:59 AM

    Crime Fiction...
    This one is good because we could come up with something super silly and out there or go the more serious route

    The First Line “Thomas hadn’t expected to be alive when the town’s time capsule was opened..."
    I did this in a creative writing class at uni before and it was a lot of fun to see what people came up with. Good idea for a group story because there's a lot of different ways it could go.

    Imagine 2200 Climate Function...
    This is another good one for a group story because again it's not super complex unless we want it to be, and it leaves room for lots of different writing styles and ideas

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  3. JonathanApril 6, 2022 at 8:59 AM

    I really like the Jellyfish Review: Memorable Character one. Seems like there's a lot of flexibility and I'm sure we all have some favorite characters that we could channel in our writing in part.

    “We welcome fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, essay and prose poetry (but no line break poetry) and it must have a memorable character. We recommend including the memorable character in the title too, but it’s up to you.”

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  4. RylandApril 6, 2022 at 9:00 AM

    You awake one day and your favorite artist/actor/movie never existed and only you have memories of their art. How is the world different? What would you do? Explore the possibilities of this alternate reality and how you would react in a story of maximum 5,000 words.

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  5. Florence LinApril 6, 2022 at 9:05 AM

    Prompt idea: Write about a stranger. You pass someone on the street, and you know nothing about them, but imagine. Write about their life: where are they going? What did they think when they passed you?

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  6. Florence LinApril 6, 2022 at 9:08 AM

    What is your worst nightmare? Describe in detail.

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  7. eveApril 6, 2022 at 9:18 AM

    What is the worst key to be broken on a keyboard and why?
    What number(s) do you not trust? Who is up to something?

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