Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
~ A. Lee Martinez
In August, I’m participating in BlogHer’s
Blogging Challenge. The theme this month
is: Hot.
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o doubt about it ~ there is a reason that a blogging challenge
is called just that. Writing a piece
worth posting for all the world to see stretches one ~ sometimes almost to the
breaking point. But it’s a good stretch
and one that is necessary if one is to shape up one’s writing.
Talent only goes so far. In any vocation you need discipline as
well. The discipline to hone your craft,
whip those words into shape and write something memorable, something that will
touch a heart and change a life. We don’t
know what line will reach someone in pain; our job is to write with our heart
in our pens and let the ink flow where it will.
But it doesn’t hurt to have a little help in
priming the inkwell. Here are five sites
that offer writing prompts, some even on a daily basis, to get you through the
next three weeks of the BlogHer challenge.
Random writing prompts at a click. Don’t like the one you got? Click the button again. I’ve already garnered some interesting ideas
for the coming weeks.
Poetry. Fiction.
Creative Non-Fiction. No matter
what you write, you can find a prompt here, as well as advice from fellow
writers.
There are writing prompts on this site for every
day of the year, grouped by month and based on historical events. It is mostly geared for teachers to give to
students, but they are useful for jumping starting the imagination.
These are mostly story prompts. Nothing stretches the writing muscles like writing
in a completely different genre than you currently do. Get out of your comfort zone and you’ll be
surprised where you newly extended wings will take you.
Oremus pro invicem,
~ Mikaela
Where
do you go for writing prompts?
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