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!

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

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.

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

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**

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

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

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

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

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.....

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.....

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....

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

Fire Your Muse- Writing Prompts

Here are a weeks worth of writing prompts, in case your muse is being stubborn. I find that taking more than one and merging them can create some great ideas. See what you can do with these.

-I woke up alone

-How did you get here?

-There's never enough time, is there?

-Unreasonable demands.

-Faded Paint + sleepwalker + broken promise

-Keeping an eye on the dead

-A job like any prison