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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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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 know you love her. Now go and get her.” (Yep, from Hey Jude.)
2. “Ask and thou shalt receive.”
3. “It’s up to you to make the change. No one else can do it but you.”
4. “It was meant to be.”
5. “I can see you’ve made your mind up. What am I supposed to do now?”
6. “Stop! What you’re doing is going to kill him!”
7. “I found the strangest thing in my pocket this morning, and I don’t remember putting it in there.”
8. “I can’t tell you what I might do.”
9. “You’re a fool, no doubts about it.”
10. “I think we might die tonight.
11. “All I want is this. Nothing more. Nothing less.”
12. “Duck!”
13. “I love you, but we only have thirteen hours to save the earth.” (If you can tell me one of the two places where that’s from, I’ll give you a cookie.)

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Wishes! Talk about something you can write about. Everyone has secret desires, be them right or wrong, greedy or not. Wishes can be horrible things that haunt us and wonderful things that keep us working hard for our dream.

What wonderful writing fodder!

For your reading pleasure (and amusement) here are…

1. When I was younger, I wished my older brothers would spend more time with me…
2. …and let me play with their toys when I wanted…
3. …and let me play their Nintendo so I didn’t always have to sneak in to do it.
4. Also when I was younger, a lot of the time I wished to just be left alone to do my own thing. This wish only intensified when I started writing stories.
5. I wished (and still wish now) for more money. I absolutely love giving people presents, but it’s often put off because I don’t have enough money for stuff/shipping. Then it was because allowance was an on/off sort of thing. Now I have medical bills and student loans. Ah, to be an adult.
6. I wished to be skinny at about age ten. I’ve been overweight since before then, but it was when I was ten that I saw a picture of myself and realized how heavy I was. (Thanks a lot, PCOS.)
7. I have always, always wanted (even to this day) blue hair. Not highlighter blue, but dark blue that’s blue enough to make it obvious I have blue hair. (Someday…)
8. I also want to get my nose pierced…
9. …and to get my third tattoo. (I feel like such a rebel. Hah!)
10. In school, I wished for nothing more than this boy to ask me to be his girlfriend. And he did. Then he broke up with me the next day. The good news is I didn’t care because I’d really been in love with being in love.
11. Also in school, I fell hard for a guy two years older than me. I wished so much for us to be together. It never happened, though we both liked each other. I think he was afraid of commitment.
12. These days, my wishes revolve around my health. I wish for my ovarian cysts to magically disappear along with my other symptoms of PCOS.
13. I also wish for my husband and I to be happy and healthy for as long as we can be. I know that sounds a bit cheesy, but I honestly do.

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 put on your winter coat only to find something strange in your pocket…
2. Create your dream house.
3. “Nothing is as it seems.”
4. You hear the beep of your alarm clock. It’s early. You remember you set the clock, but you don’t remember what for.
5. “I just don’t let it bother me anymore.”
6. You are travelling to a different country in a hurry and can only pack one bag. What do you put in it?
7. Think of your favourite poem (or find one you like) and write a story based off it.
8. “Touching isn’t the only way to feel.”
9. Write about a time you came through a struggle and what you learned from the experience.
10. What is your favourite type of weather? Why?
11. Create a ’secret space’ that you wish you could go to relax whenever you wanted.
12. “I know you’re going to think I’m crazy, but…”
13. “Rain. Tears. What’s the difference?”

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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. “Shoot! Shoot now!”
2. Go to page 145 of the book nearest you. Go to the second paragraph and write down the third sentence. Now make an entirely different scene for that sentence.
3. Write a short story or poem based off the feelings you get from your favourite song.
4. “Sometimes I have to wonder if that is the moment I made the biggest mistake of my life.”
5. Do an internet search for a tag or meme. Pick one and start playing. Maybe it’ll give you some inspiration.
6. You wake up and go about your normal day. However, one thing - just one thing - about your normal day is wrong. What is it and why is it wrong?
7. “I hate you. In all of my life I have never hated anyone or anything as much as I hate you in this moment.”
8. Create a character based one someone you despise. What does the character look like and sound like. What kind of story does the character belong to?
9. Create a religion. One god or many? Any gods? How do people worship? Do they worship at all? What are some of the religious rites and traditions it involves?
10. Write 100 words based on what you think of when you read the word “fragrant”.
11. Create a tree that comes from a world where everyone depends on that tree. Why do people depend on it? What is the tree like?
12. Write a short story based on a colour theme. (Blue, purple, yellow…)
13. “Take it back. I don’t want it anymore.”

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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. “Well, for all that’s good and holy!”

2. Write a poem about the room you are in.

3. Create a silly ‘prophecy’ and write a story about it.

4. Congratulations, you’ve just won the lottery. What will you do with your winnings?

5. “Am I even worth saving?”

6. Write about the world today through your grandparent’s perspective.

7. A major natural disaster has hit your area and it’s time to start picking up the pieces…

8. “All I see is you.”

9. You don’t think you have the strength to carry on. Why? What happened? What do you have to ‘carry on’ through?

10. Take a scary horror film or story character and write a funny short story involving them.

11. “There have just been too many mistakes.”

12. You are woken up in the middle of the night by someone or something banging on your front door.

13. “All you had to do was one little thing…”

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