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This has been a crazy past couple of weeks and I completely forgot about last Friday's Provocative Phrase Friday writing prompts. But one of the reasons for the craziness was presenting a Creative Thinking for Creative Writers workshop at the Write-Now Workshop.
One of the exercises I had the group involved in was creating a writing topic pool. They came up with 100 topics. So to make up for missing last week, I'm giving you an extra 88 writing topics this week. Enjoy:
- A loose bull with horns in front of my car
- A married man, who loves his wife, also falls in love with another, much different, woman
- Aggressive helplessness
- Aging well
- Allergic to aspirin
- Bedbugs in your hotel room
- Before I ruined it
- Bigfoot crossing a road at night
- Blanket of flowers
- Blue bumps
- Brutalize
- Bubblewrap
- Cacophony
- Can you cope?
- Compound a lie
- Coughing wheezing, like coffee grains in sand
- Crush
- Daily ritual
- Dead flowers in the pretty vase
- Destruction of the earth
- Divided in two
- Doing laundry on a Saturday morning, seeing endless piles of dirty underwear
- Everyone has a story janitor who was a noted jazz pianist
- Extemporaneous prestidigitation
- Fetid
- Finding alien roadkill
- Flaming business cards
- Flat tire on my way home from work
- Friendly enemies
- God made me do it! Becoming a sister.
- Good stumbles
- Hidden influence
- Hide by standing out
- Hilarious underachieving cousin becoming alcoholic
- Hope: how to find it
- Horny mom
- Hypochondriac drama queen
- I browse through dictionary
- I wish I would have known that then
- Identity theft
- If I could have dinner with three people, living or dead, they would be…
- If such a thing exists
- Imaginary number
- Immortality
- It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye
- It's dead
- Job interview – I pooped my pants right before
- Judgment makes me angry
- Juicy
- Kill
- Knock a girl off a bike to ask her out on a date
- Lemon lips
- Life in 144 characters
- Living after the Great Depression – learning how to save, conserve, appreciate
- Long eyelashes, porcelain, creamy skin and radiant hair
- Lost my e-mail account
- Love is not all you need
- Meaning of life after 80
- Meltdown
- My beloved autistic niece
- My special sister with mental retardation
- Natural hair
- Never
- Never let go for my hearts sake
- Not me
- Obliterate
- Old cat, Sore hips, can jump
- Online school that trains students to be…
- Only the vampires can save us from the aliens
- Paranoia as a survival trait
- Philosophy of everyday things
- Plus size modeling
- Regarding Steve Jobs: death as a way to clear the earth
- Set fire to the trailer
- Sitting in a room temporarily, surrounded by style and class and fashion that doesn't exist in your normal world, with light streaming in a bay window, bittersweet moment
- Sleeping in a tollbooth
- smash
- Some people will never get there
- Sovereignty
- Speed karaoke
- Strange shadows on the moon
- Sunken vegetable garden
- Swallowing my pride, I apologized for my cruel insult
- Tarot card reader in a Western saloon
- Tattoos
- The putrid odor he emitted was incredibly offensive, almost arrogant
- Three friends playing outside find an anthill and argue about what to do with it, how to treat it
- Torture
- TV is my muse
- Tweet the life of your favorite character as the book progresses. For example: Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice
- Ugly face
- What am I supposed to do with my life?
- What made me a criminal do it? Reasons behind the unreasonable the unthinkable
- What makes a hero?
- What might you achieve if you just believe in yourself
- Why
- Why did this happen, God?
- Why does this seem normal?
- You start hearing instructions and advice from a voice no one else can hear
- You wake up in a strange bed in a foreign country, (you don't speak the language) and you have no idea how you got there
Provocative Phrases for Friday, September 2, 2011:
