The past, the present and future walk into a bar. It was tense.

Hello and welcome back to Writing Prompt Friday! Like many people these days, I’m feeling a little fried in the head. So fried, I’m taking today off because I can’t even come up with a decent writing prompt for you; that’s how fried I am.

With that, here’s something writing-prompty (new phrase; you’re welcome English language) that you can do.

Write your own writing prompt and a piece of writing that goes with it.

Submit either or both in the comments below. Or just write because that’s the whole point of these prompts anyway, whether you share them or not.

Stay safe and healthy, The Ducky

2 responses to “writing prompt friday: your own”

mydangblog

April 18, 2020

When I was teaching creative writing to my grade 9 students, their favourite writing prompt was “Duck!” screamed Joe. Then they had to finish the story. Oh, the tales I got!

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1. Erica
  
  April 20, 2020
  
  I love that! Talk about grabbing people’s attention. 🙂
  
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Hello,

I’m Erica Wall.

Award-winning copywriter.
Real-world creative writer.
Multi-cup-a-day coffee drinker.

Answers to a cat.

Resolutions for 2026

Block off three hours a week to write
Delegate more to reduce overwhelm
Clean up and clean out home office
Practice finishing what I start
Practice good habits and let results be whatever they’ll be

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
> Stephen King

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
> Ernest Hemingway

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
> F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
> Douglas Adams

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
>Albert Einstein