20 Day Challenge

After an exciting start in July & August, my writing has tapered because I've gotten busy and the original excitement of having started this blog wore off more quickly than I thought it would. In an attempt to get myself back to writing more often, I am giving myself a 20 day challenge. I found 20 writing prompts and am going to complete one a day (not necessarily in this order). I'll come back and strike through items in this post as I complete them.

The aim is to post my writing for all of these. They may be raw first drafts, or something that I edited throughout the day. At the end of the 20 days I will look through my pieces and find something that I want to post again, then it will be edited and reworked as needed and posted hopefully before the end of the month.

Here are the prompts:

1. One sentence story

2. This I believe (350-500 words)

3. Six sentence story

4. Picture writing prompt

5. Write about a stranger you see on the street.

6. The haunted house is sentient, and you're stuck inside.

7. Open a book and pick a random sentence. Use this sentence to start your story.

8. Write about love.

9. Write about hate.

10. An alcoholic middle-aged woman and a teenage girl are driving across the country in a truck together. Why?

11. Write a character sketch.

12. Find a building and describe it in as much detail as possible.

13. Two characters are having an argument. Make it clear what this argument is about without mentioning the topic of contention directly.

14. Tell a story backwards.

15. Write a story with no dialogue.

16. Write a story with only dialogue.

17. Describe a first.

18. Create a story using only single syllable words. (ex. start prompt: "from the back of the truck...")

19. Write a 26-sentence long story, starting each sentence with the associated letter of the alphabet.

20. Create a still-life in a room that implies a dramatic moment (ie. furniture overturned)