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The Memory Game: writing prompts
A series of writing prompts for fictional and factual writing built out of personal memories.
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OF SNOWBALLS, DODGY GIFTS AND INVOLUNTARY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
Start a story with one of these lines: “I’ve heard that Santa is diabetic so what are we going to do with all those cookies?”“Sally and Sam had always prepared…
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Can you Survive the Haunted Horror of the Witches’ Vampire House?
Six prompts to get you writing in the week after Halloween!
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A Pensive on Writing Place
Use the opening passages from these novels to inspire a piece of your own writing. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez starts in a village: Macondo was…
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An Ostentation of Peacocks
This post is by Angela Williams. A Founder Member of Pens Around the World, she left us in 2021, to pursue a demanding creative writing course. We wish her well! More about…
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Pensive questions for character creation
A selection of writing prompts based on questions.
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Pensives – 14 June 2021
Choose one of the following prompts to write 500 words: Choose a formative event in your life. Write the scene with setting details, who was there, what happened.Write a significant…
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Unforgettable Experiences
My husband and I love to travel and we have had many great experiences. However, there is one that stands out and that we will remember forever. In Mexico, we…
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Pensive 3 May 2021
We hadn’t noticed anything at first, and we’d had a few drinks. It was the first night of our last vacation in the boondocks of Louisiana. There was something .…