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7 Writing Prompts for the Week of March 14th

By Noémi BlomPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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Welcome back to yet another week of writing prompts. The sun is rising earlier and setting later, and it feels so good! I feel like my days are longer and that I have more time to write. Do you feel the same way?

With spring just around the corner, I thought I would get you to go outside for a prompt and stretch your creative mind with a fun exercise towards the end of the week. If the weather allows it where you are, write outside! For those who still can’t, don’t despair: we’ll be wearing shorts in no time. No matter where you find yourself, here are this week’s prompts.

Sunday, March 14th

With the weather getting warmer (where I am, anyway), I encourage you to go outside. Go to a park, a store, or just sit on your front porch, and observe the people passing by. How do they walk? If they’re speaking, do they have an accent? How are they dressed? Did you learn anything about their lives or is it still very unknown?

Gather up as much information as you can about your chosen stranger, and write a story about them. Try to fill in the gaps about their lives: if you discovered that they are a student, what are they studying? If they have a wedding ring, who are they married to? If they have a briefcase, what’s in it?

Monday, March 15th

For today’s prompt, write a story about someone who is undercover. In your story, make sure that the readers are aware of the character’s situation, rather than making it a surprise reveal at the end of the story.

To help you come up with a concrete idea for this prompt, ask yourself the following questions: why is this specific character the one who is undercover? What are the traits that make them the perfect person for the job? What are they trying to achieve by being undercover: are they finding something? Exposing someone? Trying to kill someone?!

Tuesday, March 16th

Today’s prompt is a creative non-fiction exercise, and it will require a bit of reflection. Think back to some of your earliest memories. Do any of them have any special significance to you?

For this prompt, write about this memory, but throughout the story, reflect on it from your current point of view. Perhaps a person who was in your chosen memory has since passed away. Does that make the memory more special? Maybe you still do this specific thing, but with more skill. Or, do you have children who do the same thing as in your memory? How does it make you feel?

In this exercise, include details. Names, objects, colours, haircuts, clothing, feelings: these are the things that will make readers feel like they were there too. In addition to being specific with details, readers also need to get a sense of your growth, and this will be accomplished through your current perspective on this memory.

Wednesday, March 17th

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all, whether you celebrate it or not. Because this holiday is a big deal in the town where I come from, I thought I could dedicate this prompt to it.

If you’re a big St. Pat’s celebrator, use your experience to write a story. Is there an event from a past celebration that you feel like sharing? A person you’ve met? A setting you want to use for your story? Use your St. Pat’s knowledge and write a story that happens on this day, and which happens at the heart of the celebration.

For those who are less familiar with St. Patrick’s Day, write a story that incorporates one of the typical symbols attached to the celebration: green beer, four-leaf clover, rainbows and pots of gold, the colour green, or even leprechauns!

Thursday, March 18th

For this Tough Thursday, I once again want to challenge you with writing about a colour. For this one, write a story or poem about the colour white. You can choose to write about its traditional meanings (it is often attached to purity or marriage), or you can give it a whole new meaning.

Friday, March 19th

When I write, I always base my stories in towns that I am familiar with. Sometimes I don’t even mention the location because it doesn’t matter in my story. What I’ve never done? Invent a whole new town or city.

Today’s exercise is for the creative folk out there: no creative writing will be accomplished, but a lot of creativity is needed! Feel free to do this on your computer, or to take out large sheets of paper and coloured markers. For this challenge, invent a town and come up with as many details for it as possible.

What shape does the town have? What are its landmarks? What is it known for? What languages do its people speak? How much green space versus city space is there? What style of houses can you find there? When was the town founded? Does it have a flag? Who’s the mayor? Try answering as many of these questions as possible. If you like drawing, map the town out on paper. This exercise will get your creative juices flowing, and you’ll always have this new town handy if ever you need one for a story.

Saturday, March 20th

For this week’s skills challenge, I want you to write something without using any adjectives. You can write a poem, a monologue, dialogue, short story, anything – just don’t use adjectives. Instead, use comparisons and metaphors to describe people, objects, and places. This writing challenge will force you to be more expressive in your descriptions of actions.

Hopefully, this exercise will help you develop your vocabulary (finding specific words rather than a string of adjectives), and help you practice different ways of describing story elements, ways that could turn out to be more visually telling.

That’s it for this week!

I hope you’ve enjoyed these prompts, and I can’t wait to read your responses to them. Feel free to share them with me via my Instagram page (@n.m.blom) or my Facebook page (Noémi Blom – Writer).

See you next week!

Not inspired? Check out last week's prompts here.

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About the Creator

Noémi Blom

She/Her

Student @Sheridan College

Honours Bachelor in Creative Writing & Publishing 2023

I love reading, writing stories, giving feedback, and helping other writers with their creative work. Once I graduate, I want to teach, write and edit!

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