Prompt: Remove words from the following selection of text to make it your own erasure poem.
"Treating an adult like a child, or infantilization, creates a cycle of dependence in which the adult constantly needs to be told what to do and how to do it. The negative effects of infantilization on...
10/19/18
10/18/18
10/15/18
No Frills Prompt 46
Prompt: Write a piece which uses the word "Red" as the first word.
This may seem easy, but it's immediate. It's urgent. The urgency is the color, and it has many connotations. Red. Stop. Urgent. Help. Make your piece you...
9/18/18
No Frills Prompt: 45
Prompt: 50 seems like the time to do some sort of soul-searching exercise, but if you're expecting it, you're building up callouses and it won't be the sort of raw that the best poems ad stories are. SO:
For today's prompt: Take one moment that you hold in your deep vault of embarrassment, and...
9/12/18
No Frills Prompt 44
Prompt: Write a piece that includes the following object (central to the piece, not offhandedly mentioned): "A painting of the Mo...
9/11/18
No Frills Prompt 43
Prompt: Write a piece that begins with someone getting a sliver and ends with an image of a bird flying from a tr...
9/10/18
No Frills Prompt 42
Prompt: Write a piece which begins with a character being hungry, and ends with a car accide...
9/9/18
No Frills Prompt 41
Prompt: Write a piece entitled "Not Humble" and include the words "unencumbered" "trial" and "garnishe...
9/8/18
No Frills Prompt 40
Prompt: Write a piece from the perspective of an inanimate object, commenting on how humans use it (ie, a shovel talking about digging holes, being stepped on etc). Bonus points for an extended metaph...
9/7/18
No Frills Prompt 39
Prompt: Write a piece that begins five lines or sentences with the word "Before" and includes two sentences which are three words or few...
9/6/18
6/24/18
No Frills Prompt 37
Prompt: Write a piece that includes a family game of dice, a hatchet and an empty salt shak...
6/23/18
No Frills Prompt 36
Prompt: Write a piece with only odd-word numbered sentences. As in--7 words. 9 words. 1 word. Fa...
6/22/18
No Frills Prompts 35
Prompt: Write a piece the centers around a singular sand dune, cut off somehow from a larger dese...
6/21/18
No Frills Prompt 34
Prompt: Write a piece which includes a description of how to set a mouse trap. There are many types of traps, and many frame tales you can imagine. ...
6/20/18
No Frills Prompt 33
Prompt: Write a piece in which you have a family that all have superpowers, however their varying degrees. Also, writing this in May so I don't forget to do an exercise on my birthday, I am excited for The Incredibles 2, and I hope Pixar continues their tremendous pa...
6/19/18
No Frills Prompt 32
Prompt: Write a piece based on the fact that there is an enormous Aspen Grove that is the same organism that we as humans have named Pando...
6/18/18
6/17/18
No Frills Prompt 30
Prompt: Erasure. By removing many words create a piece from the following text. Remove as many letters as you're like, even parts of words, but keep the text linearly the same (as in, don't rearrange anything, only delete). This is a selection from the current wikipedia article for Emeralds. Make...
6/16/18
No Frills Prompt 29
Prompt: Write a piece that includes the following three things: A Lanyard, A Thermos, The Smothers Brothe...
6/15/18
6/14/18
No Frills Prompt 27
Prompt: Write a piece that includes something significant that is the color blue, a character named Carol and a squirr...
6/13/18
6/12/18
6/11/18
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6/9/18
No Frills Prompt 22
Prompt: Use the following as the first line of your piece: I might have preferred some col...
6/8/18
No Frills Prompt 21
Prompt: Right-click the following Wikipedia roulette and open it in three times in new tabs. Try to use all of the things you are linked to together in a piece, but at least use two of them in the same piece. Try to avoid just having them be throwaway references. Make them core to the story/poem...
6/7/18
6/6/18
No Frills Prompt 19
Prompt: write a piece based on this piece of awesome digital art by Mclelun Lee:
Go buy a print at Deviant Art if any are available. You know it'd look sweeeeeeeeeet on your wa...
6/5/18
No Frills Prompt 18
Prompt: Write a piece that involves the following five words, at least one as the last word of a sentence. Pebble, Guy, Manila, Scent, Pap...
6/4/18
No Frills Propmt 17
Prompt: Erasure. By removing many words create a piece from the following text. Remove as many letters as you're like, even parts of words, but keep the text linearly the same (as in, don't rearrange anything, only delete). This is the current wikipedia article for ancient cats in Egypt. Make it your...
6/3/18
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6/1/18
No Frills Prompt 14
Prompt: Write a piece inspired by this piece of digital art by McLelun Lee:
Then go buy a print at their sh...
5/31/18
No Frills Prompt 13
Prompt: Write a non-rhyming Decima (for our purposes, 10 lines with 10 syllables each) that includes a breakfast food. Even if your normally write prose, keep your articles and connective words (as it are to) to a minimum (for today, reword to use as few words as you can without completely sounding...
5/30/18
No Frills Prompt 12
Prompt: Learning to play the guitar in space
(some frills prompt explanation: without the gravity of earth coordination is thrown off. Take the experience as your own as the foreground of an epic space adventure, show it as a vignette in a reluctant astronaut's voyage, you choose, but use the idea...
5/29/18
No Frills Prompt 11
Prompt: Write a piece based on this amazing piece of digital art by Mclelun Lee. Buy their art. It will transform your house into a home...
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5/28/18
5/27/18
5/26/18
No Frills Prompt 8
Prompt: Write a piece based on this amazing photo by Galen Rowell. His legacy is an intense shadow over all adventure photographers. I love his books and his images. He tragically died in a small plane crash with his wife...
5/25/18
No Frills Prompt 7
Prompt: write a piece titled "If I could go back in time"
Some frill: make the time travel about something incredibly petty, and the satisfaction also incredib...
5/24/18
No Frills Prompt 37
Prompt: Write a piece that includes the following three things a pine cone, a packet of saltine crackers and a pair of headphon...
5/23/18
No Frills Prompt 5
Prompt: Write a piece in which you consciously include 3 misspelled words.
(this is a small frills exercise, because it's a little different but I liked the idea)
For instance: report on a note written, recall a text message, an email. Reminisce about a child's spelling test (or perhaps your own)....
5/22/18
No Frills Prompt 4
Prompt: Write a piece inspired by this digital painting by Mclelun Lee. Their artwork is absolutely stunning and you'll be seeing more of them in these prompts. Do yourself a favor and get a print through Devi...
5/21/18
No Frills Prompt 3
Prompt: Write a piece under 500 words which includes a heist, and 2 characters arguing about their favorite superhero...
5/20/18
5/19/18
No Frills Prompt 23
Prompt: Write a piece inspired by the following piece by your favorite sassy turtle, Raphael!
Remember this was done in 1504. Dude didn't have illustrator, or even photoshop essentials! Don't get me started on Titi...
No Frills Prompt 1
So instead of posting these long-winded specific prompts with additional options and whatnot, I'm going to have a series/tag of prompts which are just that. Only prompt. Quick and easy, if you want to build on it give yourself an additional self-constraint. This will be the only explanation.
Exercise...
5/16/18
4/10/18
April 10, 2018 National Poetry Month Daily Writing Prompt: Five Words and a Rhyme
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2018!
I don't want to exclude anyone, though, so all prompts will be written so that they can be either poetry or prose.
Today's exercise (4/10/18) is to write a piece that includes...
4/6/18
April 6, 2018 National Poetry Month Daily Writing Prompt: Childhood Friends
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2018!
I don't want to exclude anyone, though, so all prompts will be written so that they can be either poetry or prose.
Today's exercise (4/6/18) is to write a narrative or partial...
4/5/18
April 5, 2018 National Poetry Month Daily Writing Prompt: Cooking with a Pet
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2018!
I don't want to exclude anyone, though, so all prompts will be written so that they can be either poetry or prose.
Today's exercise (4/5/18) is to write a narrative in which...
4/4/18
April 4, 2018 National Poetry Month Daily Writing Prompt: Half Full or Empty
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Welcome to National Poetry Month 2018!
I don't want to exclude anyone, though, so all prompts will be written so that they can be either poetry or prose.
Today's exercise (4/4/18) is to write about 'the glass'...
4/3/18
April 3, 2018 National Poetry Month Daily Writing Prompt: Speaking with a Grandparent
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2018!
I don't want to exclude anyone, though, so all prompts will be written so that they can be either poetry or prose.
Today's exercise (4/3/18) is to write about a conversation...
4/2/18
April 2, 2018 National Poetry Month Daily Writing Prompt: Shoreline
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2018!
I don't want to exclude anyone, though, so all prompts will be written so that they can be either poetry or prose.
Today's exercise (4/2/18) is to use the following five words...
4/1/18
April 1, 2018 National Poetry Month Daily Writing Prompt: Plums?
Welcome to National Poetry Month 2018!
I don't want to exclude anyone, though, so all prompts will be written so that they can be either poetry or prose.
Today's exercise (4/1/18) is to use the single word question...
