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My Prompts given from 4/4/20 - 3/30/21 in The Writer's Cramp
These are prompts I came up with in my fifth year of judging "The Writer's CrampOpen in new Window..

You are free to use any of them if they will help you in your writing:


1. Please use this title for your poem or story

"Time For a Change"

The genre is up to you.

Given April 7 - 8, 2020 = 4 Entries


2. Please END your story or poem with this line in bold} for judging convenience:

"I remember that night as well as I remember the rain."

The genre is up to you.

Given April 14 - 15, 2020 = 5 Entries


3. Please BEGIN your story or poem with this line in bold for judging convenience:

"I was afraid to go into the store."

The genre is up to you.

Given April 21 - 22, 2020 = 3 Entries


4. Please END your story or poem with this sentence, bolded for judging convenience.

"The memory haunts me."

The genre is up to you.

Given May 5 - 6, 2020 = 6 Entries


5. Please use the following as the title for your short story or poem:

"Funny Numbers"

Pick "Comedy" as one of your genres. Have fun!

Given May 12 - 13, 2020 = 3 Entries


6. Get inspired by the following quotation and write a short story or poem. The quote does NOT need to be included in the text:

"Think where man's glory begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

William Butler Yeats


Please pick "Friendship" as one of your genres. *Smile*

Given May 19 - 20, 2020 = 3 Entries


7. END your story or poem with this passage, bolded for judging convenience:

"the difference between things that are important

and those that only seem important at the time."



The genre is up to you.

Given May 26 - 27, 2020 = 4 Entries


8. Give your poem or short story this title:

"Melody of Shadows"

Pick Music as one of your genres and have fun!

Given June 2 - 3, 2020 = 6 Entries


9. Include this phrase, in BOLD for judging convenience somewhere in your poem or short story:

"shattered window to the past"

The genre is up to you! Have fun!

Given June 9 - 10, 2020 = 3 Entries


10. Include this phrase (in BOLD for judging convenience) at the END your poem or short story:

"the chill of that June rain"

The genre is up to you.

Given June 16 - 17, 2020 = 4 Entries


11. Include this phrase (in BOLD for judging convenience) at the BEGINNING of your poem or short story:

"No sense of irony or humor to be found that spring"

The genre is up to you.

Given June 23 - 24, 2020 = 1 Entry


12. *Down*Write a poem or short story about the year the main character turned ten years old.

The genre is up to you.

Given June 30 - July 1, 2020 = 3 Entries


13. Write a poem or short story using one of these Beatles' song titles as the title. Just select one of them, you don't have to use the others:

"Penny Lane"
"Nowhere Man"
"A Day in the Life"
"Eleanor Rigby"
or
"Paperback Writer"

The genre is up to you. Have fun!

Given July 7 - 8, 2020 = 8 Entries


14. Write a poem or short story using the following (in bold) in the last line:

"should have known better"

The genre is up to you. Have fun!

Given July 14 - 15, 2020 = 5 Entries



15. Write a poem or short story using the following (in bold) in the FIRST LINE:

"found music in a summer storm"

Pick "Music" as one of your genres please. Have fun!

Given July 21 - 22, 2020 = 4 Entries



16. Write a poem or short story using the following (in bold) in the LAST LINE:

"lingering shadows framed July"

The genre is up to you. Have fun!

Given July 28 - 29, 2020 = 2 Entries


17. Write a poem or short story using the following (in bold) somewhere in the text:

"and then the truth was unmasked"

The genre is up to you. Have fun!

Given August 4 - 5, 2020 = 4 Entries


18. Write a poem or short story using the following (in bold) somewhere in the text:

"color of the sky at daybreak"

The genre is up to you. Have fun!

Given August 11 - 12, 2020 = 10 Entries


19. Write a poem or short story using the following (in bold) somewhere in the text:

"sitting on a bench in a gallery in Paris"

The genre is up to you. Have fun!

Given August 13 - 14, 2020 = 3 Entries


20. Write a poem or short story using the following passage: (in bold)

"just another lost generation"

Given August 18 - 19, 2020 = 3 Entries


21. Write a poem or short story using the following passage: (in bold)

"true color of the night..."

The genre is up to you. Have fun!

Given August 25 - 26, 2020 = 4 Entries


22. Use the following phrase bolded at the start AND end of your story or poem:

Holding on to memory's dream

The genre is up to you.

Given Sept. 8 - 9, 2020 = 2 Entries


23. Use the following title as the title of your story or poem:

Tears Into Flowers

The genre is up to you.

Given September 15 - 16, 2020 = 5 Entries


24. Please use the following, bolded somewhere in your story or poem:

"reason to believe"

The genre is up to you.

Given September 17 - 18, 2020 = 10 Entries


25. Please use the following, bolded somewhere in your story or poem:

"silence said it all"

The genre is up to you.

Given September 22 - 23, 2020 = 4 Entries


26. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Season of Glass"

The genre is up to you.

Given September 29 - 30, 2020 = 2 Entries


27. Please use the following, bolded, as the ending of your story or poem:

"it couldn't be fixed that year"

The genre is up to you.

Given October 6 - 7, 2020 = 1 Entry


28. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

Leave it to the Rain

The genre is up to you.

Given October 13 - 14, 2020 = 6 Entries



29. Please use all of the following four phrases bolded somewhere in your story or poem:

black cats dance
silence on Halloween
broken ladder
empty treat bags


Pick "horror" as one of your genres please.

Given October 27 - 28, 2020 = 3 Entries


30. Please use the following bolded at the end of your story or poem:

the night that revealed everything

Given November 3 - 4, 2020 = 5 Entries


31. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

Shades of Intolerance

The genre is up to you.

Given November 10 - 11, 2020 = 6 Entries


32. Please use the following in bold as the opening line of your story or poem:

An echo of music resonated in the dark.


Pick "Music" as one of your genres please.

Given November 17 - 18, 2020 = 4 Entries


33. Please use the following in as the title of your story or poem:

"Roses in the Rain"

The genre is up to you!

Given November 24 - 25, 2020 = 2 Entries


34. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

Closely Watched Trains

The genre is up to you.

Given November 26 - 27, 2020 = 3 Entries


35. Please use the following as the last line (in BOLD) of your story or poem:

"to draw a line under you"

The genre is up to you.

Given December 1 - 2, 2020 = 2 Entries


36. Please use the following song lyric from John Lennon's "Imagine" as the first line (in BOLD) of your story or poem:

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one"


Please select "Music" as one of your genres.

Given December 8 - 9, 2020 = 4 Entries


37. Please use the following as the last line (in BOLD) of your story or poem:

"chasing rainbows in the rain"

The genre is up to you.

Given December 15 - 16, 2020 = 2 Entries


38. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Mittens and Paws"

The genre is up to you.

Given December 22 - 23, 2020 = 3 Entries


39. Please use the following as the last line: (in BOLD) of your story or poem:

"One Candle in the Window to say goodbye"

The genre is up to you.

Given December 29 - 30, 2020 = 1 Entry


40. Please use the following as the first line: (in BOLD) of your story or poem:

"Silence was everywhere that winter"

The genre is up to you.

Given January 5 - 6, 2021 = 6 Entries


41. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Fool in the Rain"

The genre is up to you.

Given January 12 - 13, 2021 = 7 Entries



42. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Pizza and Fairy Tales"

The genre is up to you.

Given January 19 - 20, 2021 = 2 Entries


43. Please use the following 60s Rolling Stones' song title as the title of your story or poem:

"Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown"

Please select "Music" as one of your genres. Have Fun!

Given January 26 - 27, 2021 = 7 Entries


44. Please use the following, in bold as the first line AND last line of your story or poem:

"Only the winter hawk remained."

The genre is up to you.

Given February 2 - 3, 2021 = 3 Entries


45. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Beyond the Reflection"

The genre is up to you.

Given February 9 - 10, 2021 = 3 Entries


46. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Red Bird in Snow"

The genre is up to you.

Given February 16 - 17, 2021 = 5 Entries


47. Please use the following in bold somewhere in your story or poem:

"time to find your heart"

Please select "Romance/Love" as one of your genres.

Given February 23 - 24, 2021 = 1 Entry


48. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Black Cat on a White Fence"

The Genre is up to you.

Given March 2 - 3, 2021 = 3 Entries


49. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Take the Rain Away"

The Genre is up to you.

Given March 9 - 10, 2021 = 3 Entries



50. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

"Dance Over the Green"

The Genre is up to you.

Given March 16 - 17, 2021 = 1 Entry


51. Please use the following four phrases in bold somewhere in your story or poem:

breaking news
fool on the hill
around every corner
waiting forever


The genre is up to you.

Given March 18 - 19, 2021 = 2 Entries


52. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

Scrapbook Season

The Genre is up to you.

Given March 23 - 24, 2021 = 2 Entries



53. Please use the following as the title of your story or poem:

Soup of the Day

Please pick "Food/Cooking" as one of your genres.

Given March 30 - 31,2021 = 2 Entries


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