Clan Destine Press Blog — Writing Prompts

Truly, if you don't come back here every week to see what others have written for a prompt, you're missing gold. Each week I see them (both here and later in the week at Improbable Press), and each week I'm grinning like a fool at the magic made with a few words. It takes so little to imagine so much and whether the stories are 50 words or in the case of last wee 580 perfect jewels, they're proof positive again and again and again how unique and precious is creativity. We can all hear the words pride parade and...

I don't know about you but I think that's a tasty smiley face down there. Or an evil puppet. I have a real get-away-closer vibe from that thing is what I'm saying. I'm going to get away far away shortly, so won't be writing for this prompt immediately, but when I come back I will 1) be curious what won out with you all, the tasty or the evil or something left-of-centre, and 2) be curious if I had damned nightmares because now I really can't see anything but a bloody slash of a mouth and freaky clown-eyes and I...

You know you don't have to use every word in these prompts, don't you? I mean unless you want to. Heck, you don't have to use any of them, they're here just to trigger, provoke, encourage. To start your creative engine, as it were, to get something-something simmering in your head and out your hands, where you maybe share it with us here—yay! I love these stories with a teeth-clenching, jaw-bruising glee, beause that's a thing that is, and that I have, when you share your story here. Science Fiction Stories, Mysteries, Supernatural I love all of those sorts of...

And the reports are in! I am an idiot! I accidentally deleted three stories written for last week's prompt and you know what happens when you do stuff like that by mistake? You do not make that mistake again. When I get 50 spam messages I now sit there with one eye twitching, making sure I don't delete NOT SPAM. I apologise L and T and a third person, please know it wasn't intentional and I hope you come back and write again. Now! The other reports are in and those reports are these: These prompts work! So some private comments have told me, with...

 I can't speak for you but the title of this week's writing prompt definitely starts AC/DC going in my head, which starts me singing Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, which starts me channeling Angus McKinnon Young duck-walking across the stage only I'm still in jim-jams not a velvet school boy uniform. Hmmm. I feel some part of all of that is going to influence what I write for this week's challenge. Should it do so with you I will be delighted to see what we each see on imaginations stage. Velvet? Boys? Ducks?    Did Last Week's Prompt Collide With Intestines? Actually no, it...