Writers need prompts. I’m here to help.

It all started with The Write Prompts lens at Squidoo, an information building website. Lenses are like mini websites with nuggets of information on one page. The Write Prompts lens focuses on writing prompts for writers, poets, bloggers and journalers.

I updated the writing prompts on The Write Prompt lens every week for over a year. Every Sunday I would remove the previous week’s prompts and save them to my computer then add new ones for the coming week. It was a great test of discipline to keep a regular schedule of new writing prompts growing. But it was also great fun coming up with new ideas.

In 2008, The Write Prompt lens was so successful it made it into the Top 100 lenses and stayed there for over two months. Creating The Write Prompts blog seemed like a natural progression. I will continue to update the lens’s prompts but this blog will be my main prompt home from now on.

Instead of providing prompts for seven days a week this blog will provide prompts Monday through to Friday. The prompts will be geared toward journaling, blogging, fiction writing, non-fiction writing, and poetry.

To begin with I will follow a schedule like this:

Journal Mondays

This writing prompt will focus on personal journaling.

Image Tuesdays

This writing prompt will be an image and no words to provoke the senses.

Poetry Wednesdays

This writing prompt will provide a topic and suggest a poetic form. I’m not a poetry teacher. It’s up to you to learn the form. Don’t worry I will provide a link to where you can quickly get the just of the form.

One Word Thursdays

Some times one word is enough.

Movie Fridays / Dirty Dozen Fridays

A video or twelve words to prompt you. It’s Friday so you never know which it will be.

This schedule will probably change as the blog develops. And I will probably throw in the occasional “bonus” prompt.