Improbable Press Blog — Writing Prompts

Challenge answered! And in a record number this week. Thank you for your fantastic stories inspired by last week's prompt, what you've written makes me want to know more, each and every one! This week…what's say you do it again? We again have fewer words, so more of the ones you write come from you, not me. These prompts are meant to get your fingers typing, nothing more. If you never use a single one of these words or images but you accept the challenge and write a wee marvelous thing, you're doing it right. Or write. Right? So pass...

My words cramp your style, don't they? You feel like you have to use them, don't you?Feck it, that's what I say. And so that's what I did.As of this week I've thrown out one whole word on the writing prompt and added an image, so that more of the words are yours, inventive and weird and whatever you want them to be. So now, what will you write? What do you see? Seeing Capes, Writing Sex, Accepting Challenges As usual, here are some sweet snippets from last week's stories, written by writers who each saw different things in the...

I've mentioned before that I'm lucky, right?That I get to post these weekly prompts to inspire writers and then I get the boon of the inspiration reading what you write.This week is no different and as usual I want MORE stories please. No, that's wrong, I want more of each story please. Bo, Narrelle, Hardboiledbaby, Anarion, and The Honeyed Moon, may I kindly request full novels of each of your prompt fills at your earliest convenience thankskbye. A Taste of Writing Futures Past Now here they are, tiny snippets of last week's larger tales, or in the case of one,...

Do you use the colours or the images when you build your stories? I always wonder what inspired who. For me it's nearly always the words, though once in awhile the images lend a hand. Last week's no lights prompt it was one single word shining out—bones. Somehow bones are elemental, like fire and water and sky. Everyone has something to say about bones. Scarpering right after bones was the prompt of light, and suddenly I knew what I wanted to write. Writing Bare Bones and Angry Oceans A sampling of last week's wonderful wee stories. Click the link above...

Thoughts skitter-scattered every which way with last week's prompt. It's always a revelation, because sometimes writers ride a wave together, looking at the words and image and each mind turns toward something similar, whether it be space or sea or snow. Maybe it depends on what's in the air you know? If so, this week I'll be curious to see if that same unnamable something is round about the place. What do you think? Piecing Together the Prompt Puzzle So yeah, each author below took a different tack writing last week, each saw something the others didn't in those simple...