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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Fire Your Muse--A month of prompts

-It was his idea of a good time.
-People don’t understand him because…..
-People find her difficult because…..
-My dreams hold the answers. If I could only divine the questions.
-Someone is calling your name.
-What can be imagined can be done.
-The right thing to do at the time.
-This is where I went wrong.
-Before you can change, you must put an undeserved faith in something.
-Frustration and despair.
-Sleeping on a pile of stones.
-The whole thing left a bitter taste in her mouth.
-I want to go home.
-Candle wax dripped.
-Dagger in the lake.
-Frost on the window frames.
-He laid down the knife and looked at his hands.
-Her strength began to drain away.
-I will be yours forever and ever.
-On the top shelf, way at the back, he found…..
-Sit down and hush up.
-Long afterward, I came upon it again.
-The love of my life…..
-Kiss the cowboy.
-This is what you can see by starlight.
-A gracious rain.
-Why I am a danger to the public.
-It was as if…..
-When the dust settles…..
-It’s just too hard!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts


This weeks tid bits for your minds to grind up and spit out again.
-A fugitive + southern comfort + leather and lace

-Her mother always warned her...

-I was not sent by the devil!

-The crazy wolf laughed beside the fountain.

-Horoscope come true + half an hour before sunrise

-I never expected that one day I'd open my closet and find...

-Friends and family members become entangled in relationship that leads to three deaths.

Monday, November 09, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts


Here are this weeks tidbits for you to feed your hungry brain.
-The scent of vanilla reminded me of our secret dance.

-Searching for the land of legend

-The one thing I could't say was....

-The last time he'd worn that hat was when he'd died.

-As a child he had learned about pain + when lightening strikes

 -Enlightenment comes from an unusual source.

-A cocktail waitress down on her luck + she'd never see his face

Monday, October 26, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts


This weeks prompts, happy writing.

-Wearing that ring....

-This is all that was left when s/he was gone.

-Lunatic + a picture+ ancient garden + knowledge

-Prophet + a rat + medieval journey + insanity

-Girl + cat + a market+ trickery

-Orphan + empty notebook + an attic + deception

-Servant + dead flowers + in a garden + doubt

Monday, October 19, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts


Here are this weeks prompts:

-During a rainstorm a person discovers an item they though they'd lost.

-Lucky axe murderer

-Female aristocrate + a family secret + illness + an ancient journey

-Soldier + a map + a dark ancient alley + identity

-Sorcerer + an hourglass + between worlds + death

-This is not about what I carried with me....

-After the group of children calmed down.....

Monday, October 12, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts


For your creative juices to devour-- this weeks prompts.

-Killer + a diamond + a rainstorm + freedom

-Father + flower + a nursery + death

-Hitman + a painting + in an attic + knowledge

-Artist + a key + in a thunder storm + illness

- Begger + a suitcase + council chamber + happiness

-The shadow of cigarette smoke

-Someone lies and a famous person goes missing

Monday, October 05, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts



Another week, another set of prompts. See where they can take your writing

-Judge + a letter +a rainstorm + balance

-Magician + a cage + in an attice + happiness

-Prostitute + a knife + at a medieval meal + power

-Runaway + a star + on a beach  + dispair

-I saw the strangest thing in the park last night.

-He stuck his hand in the small opening and pulled out.....

-Lost best friends wedding ring.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

Here are this weeks nuggets for inspiration. Enjoy.

-Thief + a key + in a maze + injustice

-Driver + a suitcase + dark ally + ignorance

-Writing late into the wee hours...

-Rancid breath flies from the mouth of prophecy.

-The cold steel pressed against my neck and...

-What if our shadows were alive?

-Boy + a ring + a barn + loneliness

Monday, September 21, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

And another week has arrived. Here are this weeks prompts to get your muse juice flowing.

-There is a cranberry blood stain on a pearl necklace

-Nothing is at the end of my rainbow.

-What a treasue to nurture romantic inclinations.

-The unspeakable bloody wolf

-Philosopher + a desk + between worlds + irresponsibility

-Student + darkness + in an attic + a truth

- Judge + an hourglass + a temple + betrayal

Monday, September 14, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

Here are some tid bits to insight your creativity. Enjoy.

-It's too soon to tell

-I miss having family around. Being betrayed by strangers isn't nearly as satisfying.

-The sky was gray over the sleeping pond.

-The present was totally inconsiderate.

-Fortune teller + a letter + council chamber + acceptance

-This pendant is the only way you can enter this castle.

-A jewel encrusted box found in an ancient abandoned cemetery.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

(Better late than never!)
I apologize for not doing this Monday. For those of you who know me, this was our first week back for home school. Takes a bit of time to get kids back in the groove.

Here are a weeks worth of prompts to stir your imaginations.

-The princess of the swamp + this is what she said before I was born

-Cobwebs raised to catch the moonlight

-Jury + office + distraction + body

-Ransom note for a murder weapon + fall from grace + rising early to begin journey

- It's all you could expect + One thing can't be denied + How can I tell him I....

-Nothing has changed + a single hair + the darkness proposes

-You will find time to think about kindness through the winter and spring


Monday, August 31, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

Here is this weeks prompts to get you fired up.

-Just beyond the edge of the woods where memories are underfoot.

-Of memory and legend + the third winter + ruby stone circle

-He moved into the barn. He was more comfortable there than in the house where he didn't feel wanted.

-Emerald mists of twilight + maiden of memory + dreams of chaos

-Kingdom of the scroll + memory rune + legend of the silver wolf

-She was the only archer who had survived and they were after her.

-And it was at that age.....

Monday, August 24, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

This Weeks Worth of Prompts:

-Why did you lie?

-Criminal behavior

- Tiny white flowers & walking away

-Judge & an eye & in a maze & in doubt

-Archeologist & scribbled page of notes & in a prison & truth

-Writer & diary & in a bar & truth

-I wish I didn't have to see the signs and omens....

Monday, August 03, 2009

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

This weeks writing prompts:

-Field of innocent delight

-Disturbance + the devil you know + sound of freedom

-Hold your peace + paper thin + delicate lines

-Uninvited + cup of tea +hazy sticky morning

-Pale and fragile + saying good-bye +clockwork heart

-Grounded + rage + I fired my guardian angel

- Toxic assets