WRITING PROMPTS | PROMPTLY WRITTEN
Prompt Yourself: Weekly Prompts Feb 26–Mar 4
Prompts to tempt your muses
Welcome to the ninth week of writing prompts here at PW. It’s hard to believe that we are moving into March already! Didn’t the new year just begin? Time flies while we are all having fun, doesn’t it? And I sincerely hope that my prompts equate fun for all of you. I know I have fun writing them! I want to thanks all the amazing writers here at PW for using them and showing off your creativity so well. I never know how my prompts will be used and frankly, that is the exciting part!
Reminder #1 — You do not have to use just PW’s prompts to submit work here. We accept prompted work from any publications’ prompts. You also do not have to use prompts to submit your work here. We are also an open publication for established and new writers.
Reminder #2 — Please be sure to use the correct Reader Interest Tags when you submit your pieces so your work lands in their perspective places on the homepage. They are — Poetry, Fiction, Essay, or Articles. Please only use ONE, not multiples. Your other four tags can be whatever you wish them to be.
Reminder #3 — Please ONLY submit drafts. To do this, once you have finished your piece, instead of hitting the Publish button, click on the three dots (…), chose Add to Publication, click on Promptly Written, and then submit. This will put it into my queue and I will publish it on my end.
Reminder #4 — Each week, you will find prompts for Monday-Sunday. However, you do not have to use them in the order they are written. Browse them all and use only the ones that resonate with you. Submit your work any time during the week (or long after!).
Are you ready? Great! Let’s get to prompting!
Remember, if you previously wrote for PW, you will need to go to the Submission Guidelines and ask to be a writer again.
How This Works
- You may use these prompts to write poetry, fiction, an essay, creative non-fiction, or an article.
- You may submit here at PW, to any publication that accepts prompts from other publications, or self-publish on your own page.
- Please include a link to the prompt at the bottom of your story. This is so I know the piece is a prompted response.
- If you submit anywhere besides PW, please include a link to the prompt at the bottom of your story and add a tag back to me so that I do not miss reading your story (@ravynehawke)
- Have fun!
Moody Monday
Write a ‘moody’ piece around the following:
— a lost keepsake — frantic — “I swear, I put it right here!”
Tuesday Twosome
Conceptual theme — Peace Twosome — Truce and Treaty
Wednesday’s Either/Or
Either family or friends
Thursday’s Thoughts
“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Fiction Friday
Use the following concepts for a story:
— a sandy beach — a storm is brewing — This no longer feels like home.
Random Words Saturday
Choose up to 5 of these 10 random words (you may use any form of these words):
- dismiss
- promotion
- major
- guerrilla
- execution
- dividend
- hypothesis
- sacrifice
- trivial
- childish
Spiritual Sunday
How do you honor the sacred and profound?
There you have it, me lovelies! A week’s worth of prompts to tempt your muses. I look forward to reading your submissions.
~Ravyne Hawke, EIC





