Welcome to another month of writing prompts!  I often write the prompts throughout the month when an idea or thought hits me. These ideas often come from snippets of conversations that I’ve had with family or friends. So essentially, these prompts are representative of my life, and all the fun, weird, crazy parts of it. I know some of you have written entire books based on these prompts, and that always leaves me in amazement, especially knowing that parts of my life are now intertwined with parts of yours. So please enjoy these prompts, which are not always just random words, but rather words which mean something to me. I hope they’ll eventually have special meaning for you as well.  ~M xo

1. A dream in a tear
2. Under a star near the sea
3. Warped and wrinkled
4. Curly fries and plastic bow ties
5. Attention! Attention! Read all about it…
6. The truth often hurts
7. Blowing kisses in the storm
8. She grew and then he knew
9. Pages of perfection
10. Damp dangling tresses
11. Was it a laugh or a cry?
12. Stolen sentiments
13. Dull knives and feisty fellas
14. Molten kisses
15. To the moon and back
16. A tale of turbulence
17. Eden prairie
18. Disappointing disasters
19. Lipstick secrets
20. Grandma’s medicine
21. Edible words
22. Something lost, something given
23. Evening hush
24. Slices of life
25. Voyage views
26. Peculiar happenings
27. Crumpled sheets and tousled hair
28. Shoved in a closet
29. The best part
30. Food stamp fortunes
31. Finding rainbows between the clouds

If you’re new to prompt writing, and don’t really understand how to use the prompts, please consider the following writing exercise.

Settle into your favorite place in the house with a hot drink to warm your waking bones.  Once you’ve warmed up a bit; grab your journal, a trusty pen, and a timer.  Then, set your timer for ten minutes and begin writing about one of the prompts.  Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, neatness, or anything like that; just write!  Write about anything and everything that comes to your mind, and don’t stop until the ten minutes are up.

I often find myself writing short stories or poems during those ten minutes, but you can write about anything you like.  And don’t be alarmed if what you’ve written doesn’t quite make sense.  The whole idea behind doing this exercise is to get your mind ready and working so that you can begin your day.  Just think of it as exercise for your brain, and once you’ve done your ten minutes of writing, you’ll feel more prepared to tackle the rest of your day.

As always, I will be writing and posting over on my other blog, which can be found here. So please come visit me if you get a chance, and hopefully I can keep up with all of you!

And one last thing before I forget!  I made a quick tutorial for those of you who have been having trouble trying to figure out how to Pingback your posts.  Please go here, if you’d like to view the tutorial.  😉

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