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Prompt Yourself: Weekly Prompts May 15–21
Prompts to tempt your muses
Welcome to the twentieth week of writing prompts here at PW. Can you believe it is already mid-May? Since I’ve been ill most of the month, the days have been flying by in a haze. Thank goodness for the awesome PW editorial staff editing and publishing your stories all month. Let’s give them a round of applause and praise. They are ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE, Bella Smith ⭐, and Petunia Petals. I also want to thank the PW Writers for your amazing work. You can check out all their stories on our homepage.
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 multiple. 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 (…), choose 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 any of the following:
— lasting friendships — one’s unstoppable progression towards death — stolen moments
Tuesday Twosome
Conceptual theme — Confusion Twosome — Uncertainty and Unsettling
Wednesday’s Either/Or
Either Alert or Dormant
Thursday’s Thoughts
“We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.” ― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
Fiction Friday
Use any or all of the following concepts for a story:
— a vacation gone horribly wrong — space-fairing pirates —Who stole the gems?
Random Words Saturday
Choose up to 5 of these 10 random words (you may use any form of these words):
- acceptable
- cellar
- bury
- abuse
- ritual
- demonstration
- brainstorm
- convert
- revoke
- inappropriate
Spiritual Sunday
Name and describe what is enough for you.
Bonus Prompt — Write a ‘fortunate’ poem, flash fiction story (500 words or less), or essay.
Don’t forget, there are Writing Sparks available in the Monthly Theme.
Also, check out Casey Lawrence’s recent ‘AI Made Me Do It’ prompts.
And in case you’ve forgotten, a Poetry Writing Contest is going on here at PW:
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
Check out what I’ve been reading this month: