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OF SNOWBALLS, DODGY GIFTS AND INVOLUNTARY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
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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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Posted by By Debbie Hubbard 2021-12-13Posted inPensivesTags: Christmas, muses, poem, writing prompts4 Comments
Who Let The Birds Out?
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Who Let The Birds Out?

Who Let the Birds Out? Writing prompts from Bruce Dodson
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Posted by By Bruce Louis Dodson 2021-11-29Posted inPensivesTags: inspiration, writing prompts3 Comments
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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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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-11-01Posted inPensivesTags: halloween, horror, writing prompts4 Comments
A Pensive on Writing Place
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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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Posted by By Gail Aldwin 2021-09-06Posted inPensivesTags: novel openings, reading, sense of place, writing prompts6 Comments
An Ostentation of Peacocks
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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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Posted by By Guest Blogger 2021-07-12Posted inPensivesTags: collective nouns, peacocks, writing prompts2 Comments
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Pensive questions for character creation

A selection of writing prompts based on questions.
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-06-28Posted inPensivesTags: questions, writing prompts2 Comments
Pensives – 14 June 2021
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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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Posted by By Kimberly Kabonga 2021-06-14Posted inPensivesTags: formative event, significant event, writing prompts2 Comments
Unforgettable Experiences
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Unforgettable Experiences

This Guest Post is by Patricia Cole. Patti was a founder member of Pens Around the World. She left us when she and her husband moved back to England after…
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Posted by By Guest Blogger 2021-05-31Posted inPensivesTags: experience, writing prompts1 Comment
Pensive 3 May 2021
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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 .…
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Posted by By Bruce Louis Dodson 2021-05-03Posted inPensivesTags: writing prompts1 Comment
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A muse full of windows

Windows: Writing prompts for this week's muse.
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-04-19Posted inPensivesTags: writing prompts5 Comments

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