Writing Prompts | June Gillam

Writing the August Heat

A few quotes serve us as prompts on this first hot day of August: “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” -Aimee Friedman, Sea Change “The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water...

Writing in Wet Clay

Writing Prompts

Too hot to work up a writing sweat? Let these suggestions roll around in your mind, like ice cubes in a tall drink of inspiration. If you feel like it. Leos I have known A surprise invitation Earth seen from afar If you get anything you’d like posted here, shoot...

Hot Romance

Writing Prompts

Around the 21st of June in the northern hemisphere the summer solstice occurs, when the sun reaches its highest point of the year at the Tropic of Cancer, giving us our longest day. One more week of spring, but feels like the heat is on. What can you get in 30 minutes...

Writing Alone in a Group

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Considering summer as hot iron balls we can neither embrace nor let go, what can you make of these prompts in a half hour or so? 1. Space travel 2. The temperatures of friendship 3. Junebugs 4. Outdoor grills As always, Reply with a Comment if you’d like to...

Got writing on your mind?

Writing Prompts

Fingers itching to write? Need an entry line? 1. When my parents met . . . 2. Summertime, when the living is . . . 3. I used to … , but now I . . . Take a half hour and let it rip. See what you get. –jg aka...

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NBA Playoffs are over! 1. Write about yourself as a good player on an invented or real team sport. 2. True or false? It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. 3. Falling in love in the fall is … As always, feel free to write what...