Having a creative challenge might be just what you need to lift your spirits and give you some distraction from the COVID-19 related fear-mongering that is being forced down our throats.
Pandemics that close down mass-gatherings are not a new thing. When the theatres had to close down to stop the spread of the plague in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Shakespeare wrote some of his best works including King Lear. So, why not take this self-isolation as an opportunity to create something excellent? It may even lead to your best work yet!
As always, with any of my writing prompts you can use as many as you like in one piece of writing. You can write in any style, genre, or format that you like.
Please do me a huge favour and place a link to this post somewhere in your piece, so that wherever you post it, I can see it. Feel free to share your piece in my comments section so that my readers can find their way to your writing. And, if you know someone who might enjoy a writing challenge, pass this onto them!
- You can take our freedom but you’ll never take our toilet paper
- I have an itch in my throat
- Standard definition
- A lie hiding between a truth
- Sequins and stardust
- The rampant squaller we used to know
- Half the world away
- A silent stone sentinel
- Bruises that won’t heal
- The problem with you is…
Now, pick which of these exciting writing prompts you would like to use and get to it! Your piece won’t write itself (or maybe it will?)
Happy writing one and all!
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Hi Peter, I’d like to shaer these prompts with my wrtiing group- giving full credit of course, if that is okay? We arent meeting in person at the moment.
Of course! I hope they enjoy them! Hope you’re all keeping safe
Thanks Peter, that is why the writing group has closed for the moment.We are in Perth Australia, although I am a British expat Stay safe and keep writing!#
it’s the same over here. Everything has closed down and gone online. Are you all on self-isolation and lockdown over there at the moment? It’s changing every day right now here.
All the groups are closing down- we had a big arts festival and anthology launch planned for May which has just been cancelled..# Its an evolving situation and I don’t think they are on top of it at all. In S#self imposed isolation with plenty of books and coffee.Our borders are closing and non Aussie are either locked in or locked out.
I don’t think anyone is on top of it anywhere. I’m gutted, I help out at a literary festival that was meant to be on next weekend, and that’s obviously been cancelled.
I’m not purposely self isolating because I’m low risk. But I work from home and everything else I have going on in life is on pause so I’m pretty much at home aside from short dog walks.
Hopefully this is all over with quickly and we can all get back on with life!
We need to look for the good news amid the turmoil. I hope to use at least one of these prompts sometime today with a mini or might mash-up. I’ve just more or less returned from a local shopping for my elder neighbor. And later today we are visiting a relative as to stave off some bit of cabin fever.
The good news I suppose is that we can in these modern times converse through the ether to locations that we could have only dreamed about. May all stay safe as the Docs and Science folk work on remedies.
Until and anon the welken sky breaks with rays of golden sun…
Glad you’re keeping active and positive. These are very strange and scary times.
As always, I look forward to seeing what you come up with from the prompts!
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I was looking for new prompts and this seemed to be the latest?
Anyway I may have used different prompts so here’s to the sleeping giant
Hey Jules, sadly I havent had much chance or motivation to get any up on the site since lockdown. It’s all been a bit crazy. Hopefully normallity will resume soon!!! I shall check out your piece!
It is a bit crazy everywhere. No worries – might back track a tad if the prompts never close.
Take care and stay safe.
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