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!

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Here are some ideas for you to ponder:

~You will seek true love down the river of dreams.
~A hand print was his only clue. It was the fourth he'd received that month. This was one of those cases that would forever haunt him.
~Laughter from the basement +an invasion of privacy +lost book + a light source
~A really irritating person + dancing in a fountain + green fire
~Honey, I can't take much more of this!
~I have no idea what you're talking about.
~The window had many views.
~Evening was the time for hunger + liquid lavender + a feather
~You will taste joy during your summer of freedom.
~Just answer the question.
~Welcome to my world.
~What will happen can't be stopped.
~I was listening to something I've heard before.
~So, it has come to this.

Fire Your Muse--Writing Prompts

After a long absence---Fire Your Muse returns:

-After the search party turned up nothing, they wondered if they were on a wild goose chase.

-Until the key is found, there is no way for her to open it, and clear her name.

-I fear all the empty space behind the mirror.

-Profit from tragedy + something important lost + a random light

-The door slammed behind him and he rubbed his dirty hands on his jeans as he made his way down the stairs.

-If I had my way....

-You will find time to think about cruelty when ever the sky cries.

-You will hear misery from a stranger.


Happy writing and best in everything!

Fire Your Muse-Writing Prompts

January has come and gone, February is cold as ice and I'm looking forward to warmer weather. While everyone is cooped up due to foul weather, here are some points to prick your imagination.

-She was straining to plug the wound as his life flowed from his chest.

-Someone has left a note on a car windshield.

-This may not be what you wanted to hear, but I am your husband's daughter.

-Never before because....

-Waterfalls and raindrops

-Fall + Road + Wings

-Today's weather emotion...

-Ritual + grandfather + destiny

-In the beginning...

-It was a new day because...
-Bear + lie + tear

-I don't remember...

-The first time I had a vision of death....

-I used to be _____, but now ____.

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Where does the time go? Feels like Christmas was only the other day and here we are nearing the end of January! Hope everyone is having a great start to their writing year. Here are some new tidbits for you.

-Did she really want the answers that could be found within her grandmother's steamer trunk?

-She was certain he had died in the accident.

-A bitter wind swept across the frozen lake. Somewhere, out there was the answer.

-I'm sure I've seen them before.

-The doors sway in the pitch dark.

-Assumptions based on an overheard phone conversation.

-When I first told my family about my secret, they didn't believe me.

-They were beautiful and deadly + a masquerade

-My brother and I came in by the old lady's window.

-I could tell the minute I got in the door and dropped my bag, I wasn't staying.

-Every night after lights out in the dormitory, there was a ceremonial story-telling.

-Where were you last night? + a gate + on the other side

-The balloons danced through the smoke.

-She mumbled over breakfast as she thought of her mother's threat.

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Happy End of the Holidays, everyone.

-Things have a life of their own. It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

-Pick up truck + lipstick + silver earring

-Reaching for a deeper meaning of motherhood.

-Someone is plotting to catch you. Why?

-The strangest request I ever received was...+ a family gathering.

-If someone had wanted me dead, they missed a good chance when...

-He was watching her.

-The next time I...

-Initials carved into a tree + his eyes had a haunted look

-What do you mean you forgot the ring?

-The letter lay between them. It had been twenty-five years.

-Why did I never suspect? Was I so gullible?

-In the distance I could see the smoke.

-No children live at Stanfield Hall now. No one lives there except the caretaker and his wife.

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Fire Your Muse is now going to be a bi-monthly posting as my duties have increased all over the place.

-The possibilities are endless...

-My cat has issues. Can you tell?

-Threatening note sent to spouse...

-Young girls life changed by ouija board...

-Witches cursed circle of stones...

-Teardrops + fireflies+ the other side of the rainbow

-Permission granted...

-It came without warning...

-Will he remember? It's been twenty years, but she had to know...

-A teenage sorceress falls in love with the man she is destined to kill on her 18th birthday...

-Let the child write...

-How can I miss you if you won't go away?

-She is the sort of person who...

-An unsuccessful painter + a voice + it was that kind of day

**Art by A.J., prompts collected by myself over a period of years**

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Sorry about not posting last week, I was ill and not in the best spirits. To make up for my lapse, I am posting two weeks worth today. May something spark your inner fire.

-I fear that I might....

-The old man in the mirror + innocence lost or abused

-There is a place called home for most people. But not for Sarah, not really.

-Something poisonous has been drunk + a silence + a church

-When the forest wants something, no mortal can resist her.

-Whenever his face enters my memory, I stop and think of what happened + a witchy neighbor + creaky floorboards

-A book that's been read over and over + a womans shattered hopes for love

-A reflection + a mask + broken promises + mythological god/dess

-Mistaken identity + afterward I thought about..

-The solution + in a state of discovery + this is what the neighbors saw

-A year after your death the truth is discovered

-It was as far as I could go, though I knew she wanted so much more

-The explosion had uncovered something ancient and mystifying

-Out of the corner of my eye....

**Prompts collected by me over many years and cut and smushed together to make some new ideas. Artwork is by A.J. my daughter.**

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.

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

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This weeks prompts are ready for you. If you are NaNoWriMo, you may just want to file all of Novembers prompts for later, once you've recooperated.

-Storyteller + a locked box + an ancient inn + possibilities

-She had been warned, but now it was too late. + the night won't save anyone

-Her lover left abrubtly, leaving behind everything. + stray cat

-Upon the new day, dawn would see him nailed to the front gate + a shovel

-The runaway curled up in a broken chair and dreamed of the home left behind + a shoe box

-The collision took the joy out of hte belated celebration + book

-Watching him sideways, she blinked away her tears + a packed suitcase + cancelled bus ticket

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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

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.....

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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

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.

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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

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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

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.

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(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

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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.....