Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about someone

who receives their

birthday wish, only to

discover it isn't at all

what they'd expected.

Expert Advice

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

~ Ray Bradbury

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about a bunch

of people who are all

trying to crowd into

a confined space.

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

FADED.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about a beggar who loves to hear himself sing.

Tips To Try

From the article "What's Your Perspective?" by Page Lambert in the September 2009 issue of The Writer magazine:

"Every character should want something, even if it's only a glass of water. Identify that glass of water for each character, and then let that desire color everything the character does and says."

Spark Word

Today's Spark Words is:

BEREFT.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about someone
who receives
something other
than what they
ordered.

Expert Advice

If you’re going to be a writer,
the first essential is just to write.
Do not wait for an idea.
Start writing something
and the ideas will come.
You have to turn the faucet on
before the water starts to flow.
~ Louis L’Amour

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

WHOLESOME.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about someone
who still does something
the old-fashioned way
in remembrance of
someone dear.

Expert Advice

The difference between

the right word

and the almost right word

is the difference

between lightning

and the lightning bug.

~ Mark Twain

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

WADDLE.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Take an interest you've
always wanted to pursue,
had you only the time,
and make that the main
passion of a new character.

Expert Advice

"This is the secret to writing:

a tube of super glue.

You apply the glue to

the seat of your pants,

and then apply your pants

to the seat of the chair."

~ Lynne Alpern

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about a moment

of unexpected bliss.

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

SWIRL.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about someone who wishes they could be just like someone else.

Expert Advice

"There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody.
The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence --
an overwhelming determination to succeed."
~ Sophy Burnham

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

SHOELESS.