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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen, all. As per usual, I will be giving you a list of thirteen prompts in all shapes and sizes. They could be a first line of dialogue, a plot idea, or something else. I hope you enjoy and pick and choose as you please.

If there are any other types of prompts that you would find useful, let me know anytime.

Have a great day.

1. Write your life story in six words.
2. Set a timer for one minute and start writing. No preparation, no thinking about what you’re going to write.
3. “You put that back this instant!”
4. Get together with a friend and create some word prompts for each other.
5. Join (or create) a writer’s group for people in your area. Talking with other writers is a great way to find inspiration.
6. “Do you have the time?”
7. Imagine being denied something not necessary to your survival but something (or someone) you wouldn’t want to live without.
8. Write a poem for your best friend about your best friend.
9. “I need a drink.”
10. Go to an antique shop and find an object to write a story about.
11. “Something weird is going on here.”
12. Create the most annoying hero you can think of.
13. “Pour the champagne!”

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen, all. As per usual, I will be giving you a list of thirteen prompts in all shapes and sizes. They could be a first line of dialogue, a plot idea, or something else. I hope you enjoy and pick and choose as you please.

If there are any other types of prompts that you would find useful, let me know anytime.

Have a great day.

1. Go somewhere you have never gone before and write there.
2. Play along with Velvet Verbosity’s 100 Words Challenge.
3. “They say you can’t do much with a rubber band, but I reckon they’re wrong.”
4. Go to a public place - train station, cafe, etc - and people watch for a while. That should provide you with some great inspiration.
5. Find some videos of comedians on YouTube (or other video sites) and use them as inspiration to write a humor piece about your life.
6. You have been granted the ability to stop and start time at will…
7. “Even when I’m not, my love will always be here with you.”
8. What one choice, if you had chosen differen
9. If your life were a specific genre book, what genre would it be? What would be the title?
10. Try meditating and clearing your mind for ten minutes before you start writing.
11. Use a lyric from your favourite song as the first line of dialogue in a story.
12. Do you have a pet or wish you had a pet? Write on that.
13. What advice would you give to someone struggling with writer’s block?

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen, all. As per usual, I will be giving you a list of thirteen prompts in all shapes and sizes. They could be a first line of dialogue, a plot idea, or something else. I hope you enjoy and pick and choose as you please.

If there are any other types of prompts that you would find useful, let me know anytime.

Have a great day.

1. If you tend to write in one genre - humor, crime, fantasy, romance - try combining your usual genre with a genre you’ve never written in before. You never know what you might get.
2. “I guess you could call me the queen of misfortune.”
3. Think of a time in your life when you felt like no one understood you.
4. A gun goes off at a crowded party.
5. “We’re not just a family company, we’re a whole world company.”
6. You get the news that if you don’t make some changes in your life, you are going to die…
7. “You’re right; I should be happy. But I’m not.”
8. Write a story based on something you hear/see/read in the news.
9. “I’m sorry I can’t be happy about your sister marrying my father.”
10. You are involved in a terrible accident and lose one of your five senses.
11. You can have everything you ever wanted in life, but someone you love has to die for it…
12. Start writing a biography. Start with notes about important parts of your life and move on to filling in the gaps.
13. “What does that have to do with me?”

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen, all. As per usual, I will be giving you a list of thirteen prompts in all shapes and sizes. They could be a first line of dialogue, a plot idea, or something else. I hope you enjoy and pick and choose as you please.

If there are any other types of prompts that you would find useful, let me know anytime.

Have a great day.

1. “I always want to know where you are.”
2. Write a short story around stalking.
3. Create a penpal friendship between two of your characters. What do they talk about?
4. Write a limerick about the song you hate the most.
5. “He’s everything you want. Everything you need.”
6. Go postcard shopping and pick out some postcards that inspire you.
7. Plan out your dream vacation and send a character on it…
8. You find a hat that gives you the ability to read the minds of others…
9. The world has gone into a nuclear winter. What happened?
10. “The song says it all.”
11. Write about a time in your life when you were feeling overwhelmed.
12. There’s been a murder on your street and you are a suspect…
13. Suddenly, life turns into a musical…

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen everyone! I hope you have been having an excellent week so far (despite all the work and whatnot). Welcome to another Thursday Thirteen of writing prompts for you.

This week’s Thursday Thirteen prompts are going to continue on with prompts, questions, first lines, and other inspiration to help you get writing.

If there is another prompt you think would be helpful, be sure to let me know in the comments or by using the ‘contact me’ button under the site description.

1. Think of a time in your life that you needed to do something you truly didn’t want to do.
2. Try some free flow writing. Set a timer for five or more minutes and just see where your mind takes you.
3. Write a poem about your day.
4. Write a 100 word story on trust.
5. “Where have you been!”
6. Someone hands you a pill, promising you that your life will improve in all ways if you take it. Do you take it?
7. Think of something you’ve always wanted. Write about getting it.
8. While walking down the street, you feel someone slip something in your pocket as they walk by…
9. “Sometimes I like to pretend I’m somewhere far away where no one knows me…”
10. If you could change one day of your life, would you? If no, why not? If yes, what day and what would you do to change it?
11. You have to leave the home you grew up in and you can only pack one bag…
12. Create a perfect room with all your favourite things. What does it look like? Who is allowed in? What’s in there?
13. A major natural disaster has hit your area and it’s time to start picking up the pieces…

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen everyone!

This week’s Thursday Thirteen prompts are going to continue on with prompts, questions, first lines, and other inspiration to help you get writing.

If there is another prompt you think would be helpful, be sure to let me know in the comments or by using the ‘contact me’ button under the site description.

1. Listen to your favourite mix tape, CD, music video, etc and see where the music takes you…
2. “The pulse is beating so strongly.”
3. Go through some poetry books and find one that inspires you to write a short story.
4. Watch a ‘behind the scenes’ feature for something (anything) and use that to help inspire some free writing.
5. Write a scene with one character and then rewrite that scene with two (or more characters).
6. “I really have no idea what to tell you.”
7. Remember a time in your life when you were extremely tired but had to keep going anyway…
8. Find some of your parent’s music or look up the music from the year you were born. Who knows what might inspire you…
9. “Bloody good!”
10. Think of a time in your life when you were extremely relieved…
11. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who does/deals with something you have never dealt with. Write about your ‘experiences’.
12. “Well you have an overactive imagination because there just isn’t any.”
13. Go somewhere different today and let the new surroundings inspire you.

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen everyone!

This week’s Thursday Thirteen prompts are going to continue on with prompts, questions, first lines, and other inspiration to help you get writing.

If there is another prompt you think would be helpful, be sure to let me know in the comments or by using the ‘contact me’ button under the site description.

1. “Hi. My name is Alex.”
2. It’s a cool summer’s night and you’ve just woken up in the middle of a park with about three dollars in change, a note clenched in your right hand, a massive headache, and no memory…
3. If you had an unlimited about of money to spend on other people, what would you buy, for whom, and why?
4. Write lyrics for the song of your life.
5. “I can’t quite figure it out. All I can really do is just think about it a lot and hope for the best.”
6. You’ve just been instructed to go on stage because it’s time to give the speech…
7. Create a character profile based on your ideal view of yourself.
8. Use one of these photo prompts as inspiration.
9. Try some free flow writing. Set a timer for five or more minutes and just see where your mind takes you.
10. “The things you say. They just make me feel so…”
11. Write a poem about the first time you fell in love.
12. If you had to live on an island with only one person for an entire year, who would it be? Why?
13. Try #9 with some music on in the background.

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen everyone!

This week’s Thursday Thirteen prompts are going to continue on with prompts, questions, first lines, and other inspiration to help you get writing.

If there is another prompt you think would be helpful, be sure to let me know in the comments or by using the ‘contact me’ button under the site description.

1. She didn’t hate him. No. She didn’t feel that kind of anger. No, what she felt was the bitter anger left behind by bad things happening that you can’t do anything about.
2. Create a banquet for your characters with all their favourite meals.
3. If you could only keep one item out of your bedroom, what would you keep and why?
4. “Say something like what?”
5. “Did you see that?”
6. You suddenly discover you have a power.
7. Take two characters, each from different stories, and switch them into each other’s stories.
8. Create a character whose personality is centered around your biggest pet peeve.
9. “You’re unbelievable.”
10. You’ve just won an all expenses paid holiday to anywhere in the world…
11. If you had to eat only one kind of food for a month, what would it be?
12.
13. “You’re bleeding!”

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen everyone!

This week’s Thursday Thirteen prompts are going to continue on with prompts, questions, first lines, and other inspiration to help you get writing.

If there is another prompt you think would be helpful, be sure to let me know in the comments or by using the ‘contact me’ button under the site description.

1. Write 100 words about frustration.
2. “I can’t believe you just said that.”
3. You have a moment of sudden inspiration…
4. Create your ultimate villain. Someone you absolutely despise.
5. “You cannot be serious.”
6. Pick out a postcard and create a scene set in the picture.
7. Write 100 words on ‘delay’.
8. You discover a huge secret about the person you are closest too…
9. “I was just telling a story.”
10. Write a poem about your day.
11. If you could spend one day as someone else, who would you be?
12. “I want to be close to you.”
13. Write 100 words on ‘problems’.

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen everyone!

This week’s Thursday Thirteen prompts are going to continue on with prompts, questions, first lines, and other inspiration to help you get writing.

If there is another prompt you think would be helpful, be sure to let me know in the comments or by using the ‘contact me’ button under the site description.

1. “I can’t do it. I just can’t do it without you.”
2. Write a 100 word story on learning.
3. Write about a character who has an occupation you know nothing about.
4. “Do you really expect me to believe that?”
5. Someone is waiting for you on your doorstep…
6. Write a 100 word story on winning.
7. Write about your first car (or bike, or…)
8. Write a scene involving love at first sight.
9. “Sometimes I can’t help but wonder where you’ve gone, even when you’re sitting here with me.”
10. You’ve been chosen to be part of an off-earth colony…
11. Write a 100 word story on trust.
12. “I know you, you’re…”
13. “Sometimes you’re just like your father.”

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Hello and happy Thursday Thirteen everyone!

This week’s Thursday Thirteen prompts are going to continue on with prompts, questions, first lines, and other inspiration to help you get writing.

If there is another prompt you think would be helpful, be sure to let me know in the comments or by using the ‘contact me’ button under the site description.

1. “You just keep that in mind when I’m not around anymore.”
2. Write a poem about autumn.
3. Pick an environment you’ve never been to before (jungle, desert, arctic) and imagine being there. Write about it.
4. Think of a time in your life when you had to be brave. When was it? Why did you have to be brave?
5. Someone hands you a pill, promising you that your life will improve in all ways if you take it. Do you take it?
6. Someone tells you that they come from the future and knew you in the future. What bit of information do they know that would prove it?
7. You’re relaxing at home with a book and suddenly you hear an explosion.
8. “You can’t honestly expect me to do that. Are you mad?”
9. Create your own political party. What do you stand for? What are you against?
10. Think of something you’ve always wanted. Write about getting it.
11. “I don’t quite understand what you mean. What are you trying to say?”
12. What is your favourite holiday? Why?
13. “No, no. You’re doing it the wrong way.”

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Hello and welcome back to your regularly scheduled Thursday Thirteen writing prompts. I hope you enjoyed your time away from the usual theme week here on Write Anyway.

Have an excellent Thursday.

1. Create a world that only exists for a day.
2. “Well, which is it? Decide?”
3. While walking down the street, you feel someone slip something in your pocket as they walk by…
4. Create a world that exists without something we take for granted – trees, water, air.
5. “It all happened a lot sooner than I thought it would.”
6. Write a short story in the form of letters between two (or more) characters.
7. “I’m standing here, feeling like this, and I know I can’t go back.”
8. If you could relive one day of your life, which day would it be?
9. Write a short story in diary form.
10. “Goodbye doesn’t mean forever.”
11. If you could change one day of your life, would you? If no, why not? If yes, what day and what would you do to change it?
12. Think of a time in your life when you felt the most hurt. Use those memories and write an emotion-driven scene about a negative feeling.
13. “The only thing left to say is goodbye.”

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Hello and welcome to the last day of Thursday Thirteens not on Thursday. I hope you enjoyed this little change of pace here on the site.

Enjoy!

1. “Where do you go when you need to get away?”
2. Take an Artist’s Day and go somewhere new. Write about the things you see and experience.
3. “Something strange is happening here. I can feel it.
4. Someone has sent you a nice package in the mail. All except for the one strange thing…
5. Write a lullaby.
6. “Whose is it? I know it’s not mine.”
7. A woman kneels there, praying harder than she has ever prayed before to whoever will listen.
8. “It’s all so intricate…”
9. Watch the news and use one of the stories there as inspiration for a story.
10. “The world as we know it is gone. Forever.”
11. Create a perfect room with all your favourite things. What does it look like? Who is allowed in? What’s in there?
12. “Keep the beat. Just keep the beat.”
13. You have to leave the home you grew up in and you can only pack one bag…

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Hello and welcome to another Thursday Thirteen that’s not on Thursday. This week I have decided to do something a little different and will be giving you thirteen writing prompts every day until the actual Thursday Thirteen comes around.

Enjoy!

1. Listen to your favourite song and change the lyrics to give it a new meaning.
2. Create a character who works in an occupation you know nothing about. Have fun researching!
3. “Move me. Make me feel something.”
4. Pick one thing you need to survive – food, water, oxygen – and then create a world where you live without it. How do you survive? What substitutes?
5. “What happened? How did we get here? Where is here?”
6. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why? How exactly does it make you feel?
7. What is your favourite childhood memory? How old were you? Why is it your favourite memory?
8. “It’s beautiful. Indescribably beautiful.”
9. Without looking, pick a random CD/tape out of your collection and write a story using the song titles.
10. Find a picture of a landscape you’ve never been to and write a scene with people at that place.
11. You have just received a letter in the mail that has no return address…
12. “Where do you go when you stare off into space like that?”
13. Start keeping a dream journal and use those dreams for writing inspiration.

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No, no, it’s alright. You haven’t suddenly lost half a week. It is Monday. However, I have decided to do something a little different this week.

I’m declaring a Thursday Thirteen week.

I am rather fond of Thursdays, so what better way to have a great week than to pretend every day is Thursday? Thus, every day this week (except Friday) I will be putting up thirteen prompts for your prompt writing pleasure.

Enjoy!

1. “I think I’ve said too much.”
2. Write a story using the letters of your name. Each new paragraph much start with a word starting with the corresponding letter.
3. “And so it goes.”
4. Invent a new drink. What does it taste like? Is it hot or cold? How do you make it? Alcoholic? Juice?
5. “The nights are endless around here.”
6. Create your version of hell. What does it look like? Feel like? What makes it hell?
7. Create your version of heaven. What makes it heaven?
8. “Same shit. Different day.”
9. Describe your favourite food without ever telling what the food actually is. See if people know what you’re talking about.
10. You meet a man at a café who tells you this is the first day he’s spoken in twenty years. What’s his story?
11. “Oh, you’ll never believe it! I can hardly believe it myself.”
12. Do some research on poetry and write a poem in a style you’ve never written in before.
13. “It’s easier to believe that the dark wins.”

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