Writing Prompts

Tonight at my writing group, Leah gave me this prompt: "why here is an apple in my bag." Ay ya yay, is what I thought. That's a tough one. But as my pen started scribbling, I started to write about two teenage girls, their relationship threatened by the loss of a treasured item. How I got that from that prompt is beyond me. But somehow the act of letting words run like a cascade of running water through the cogs of imagination pull out the most unusual narrative routes.

I have this book called "The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination," which is chock-full of writing prompts.

Here is one I recently used: Pillowtalk.

Try it out for yourself.