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 Cramp" . 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. 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. 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 |