A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a guest blog for Elizabeth Spann Craig whose blog I’ve been following for years. Elizabeth is a cozy mystery writer who posts regularly with writing tips and behind-the-scenes peeks at her publishing journey. She also compiles a weekly list of links, Twitterific, packed full of information of interest to writers and self-publishers. I always find something helpful or inspiring in the articles she chooses.
I decided to write my guest post about journaling, a writerly task that I have never even remotely mastered. In spite of that failing, journaling does have a helpful and inspiring place in my writing life. If your relationship with journaling is an uneasy one, please check out my guest post: Intermittent Journaling: How I Lost the Guilt and Acquired a Helpful Writing Strategy.
Here are your June writing prompts.
Use one, some, or all of the words in one of these groups to write a story or poem.
- Statue, water, cry, bench, sunset, life
- Chair, smartphone, empty, alert, drop, shiver
- Ladder, tree, see, above curious, time, laugh
- Umbrella, chase, tumble, door, sigh, after, drip
- Ring, stone, chose, reward, remember, gold, stare
Try one of these sentences to start or end a story.
- I’m afraid of flying.
- Ask Helen. She remembers everything.
- Henry kept one too many secrets.
- That’s blackmail.
- The door swung open. It should have been locked.
- What do you mean there’s a Canada goose in the kitchen!
- I thought you said they’d be too scared to turn up.
- I was really looking forward to the part. Shows how wrong a person can be.
- You took the last one!
- There’s someone here to see you.
Try one of these titles for story or poem.
When All Else Fails, Chocolate Cake for Breakfast, Honor Among Thieves, Only One Left, Distraction, Embers, Mars Mayhem, Lucky Pennies. Passport to Murder/Romance/Fear, Angus Reports to Work, Dogs Are People, Too.
Here are some dialogue excerpts to inspire a story or scene.
I’m looking
for Henry.
Well, he’s not here.
That’s not what I was told.
I think you
two will get along really well.
I’m sure we won’t.
Why not? Or don’t I want to know the reason?
You said we’d
be safe here.
We were.
Yes, but for not long enough.
Hand me
your cup.
But, I’m not finished.
I won’t ask again.
The last person
I want to see is Helen.
That’s unfortunate.
She’s on her way, isn’t she?
Yup.
