Summary

The website content provides a list of creative writing prompts for the week of April 2–8, 2022, designed to inspire a diverse writing community.

Abstract

The webpage presents a collection of innovative writing prompts for the first full week of April 2022. Christine Graves, the author of the prompts, expresses gratitude to the writing community for their creativity, which she finds inspiring. The prompts include a mix of new and recurring categories such as "Poetic Vision," "Say What?" "Random Sentences," "Most Wanted," "Parts Unknown," "How-To's," "Sci-Fi," and "S.I.L.O." Each prompt is crafted to challenge writers and stimulate their imagination across various genres and scenarios. Graves acknowledges the experimental nature of the prompts, particularly the sci-fi category, which is outside her comfort zone. She encourages writers to tag her and Ravyne Hawke if they use the prompts and to explore the "Publishiousness" section for additional ideas from other contributors.

Opinions

Christine Graves appreciates the diversity and creativity of the writing community and finds joy in observing their work.
She believes that changing the list of prompts each month keeps the challenge fresh and engaging.
Graves admits uncertainty about the success of the new prompts, acknowledging that some might be more appealing than others.
She recognizes her limitations in the sci-fi genre but includes it to cater to writers who excel in it.
Graves is enthusiastic about the impact of certain recurring categories like "Poetic Visions" and "These Three Things," which is why they are retained.
She values interaction with the writers, requesting them to tag her in their works and provide feedback on the prompts.
Graves is committed to providing a variety of prompts to spark imagination and encourage writers to have fun with their craft.

WRITING PROMPTS

Weekly Prompts April 2–8, 2022

Your weekly dose of writing prompts

Well, here we are, kids. We’ve made it to the first full week of April. I want to say thank you to everyone out there. You all make me so proud. Watching the way your creative minds work is the best part of my day. It’s amazing just how diverse we are as a writing community.

As usual, I’ve changed up the list for the new month. I only kept two categories from previous months, and I may have inadvertently brought back one from the past. Poetic Visions and These Three Things always have such a major impact, I just can’t part with those. And I’m rehashing Scenarios.

The rest of the categories are new ideas. As always, some might be way cool and others might just plain suck. Either way, someone’s going to notice it. Here’s what I’ve come up with for this month:

Say What? This is just going to be some dialogue for you to work from.

Random Sentences That’s all. Just a random sentence. It might be a storyline, an odd question, or whatever else wanders into my brain.

Most Wanted I’ll give you some specs on a villain, you tell me the rest of their story.

Parts Unknown I’ll give you the location, you tell us where it’s at

How-To’s Give a step-by-step description of how to complete this idea

Sci-Fi Let’s go to the ends of the galaxy and back again.

S.I.L.O. I’ll give you a Sound, an Item, a Location, and an Observation. You take it from there.

As you can see, I really shook things up this time. I may have either outdone myself or shot myself in the foot. Not really sure at this point. I have to admit, the Sci-Fi one is completely out of my wheelhouse. This is not my strongest suit, but I know some out there absolutely rock this genre.

I hope you all find something wonderful to spark your imaginations. Now get out there and have some fun. Authors and Poets, without further ado, here are your weekly writing prompts.

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Your Weekly Prompts

Poetic Vision Set your senses free The Music of a Mother’s Memories

Say What? Build your piece around this dialogue “Are you sure you want to go in there?” “No, but I’m going anyway.”

Random Sentence Just some words to spark your imagination I think we’re in need of some adult beverages

Scenarios Let this set the scene Three middle-aged sisters come to share a house after each finds herself over forty and single.

These Three Things Create a piece around these three objects A keyring, a music box, a kerosene lamp

Most Wanted Can you help find this criminal mastermind? Landon Balaster Wanted for armed robbery. Last known to be in New Orleans

Parts Unknown Where in the worlds are we? A lake that shimmers like liquid silver, with a beach of purple sand.

How-To’s Create a piece on how this is done How to get the smell of dog vs. skunk out of your nose

Sci-Fi Take us on a galactic journey A faint signal is found coming from a dead planet

S.I.L.O. Sound, Item, Location, Observation S: Dogs barking in the distance I: A bucket of nails L: The Scottish Highlands O: The temperature suddenly dropped

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And there you have it, my friends. Once again, I’m getting this together at the last minute. I hope you all enjoy this month’s categories and this week’s prompts. Sometimes, even I question the things that run through my brain.

Remember, if you write something from one of these prompts, tag me (@sapheyerblu) so I can come by and read, clap, and comment. If you publish something outside of PW, be sure to tag both me and Ravyne Hawke so she can see what you’ve written as well. Also, please leave a link back to this post.

Also, be sure to check out our Publishiousness section to find new prompts from Ravyne, Marcus aka Gregory Maidman, Rose Malana, and me. There are a ton of ideas you can work from throughout the week. And you can always go back and work from previous prompts in our archives.

I hope you all find something to write about this week and I hope you have fun doing it. Thank you all again for making this so much fun for me. You guys rock.

Until next week, Happy Writing!!!!

Christine Graves has been writing online for more than 25 years. She’s written fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She is the weekly writing prompt creator at Promptly Written. Read more of her work on her personal publication, Enticing the Muse, and be sure to sign up for the bi-monthly newsletter. Ready to become a member and read to your little heart’s delight? Click here and find out more information.