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...
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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...
