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Let’s do this – Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

October 2, 2020 by Darren Leave a Comment

A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

She took his hand and set a mischievous grin on her face. ‘Right, let’s do this!’ Friday Fiction Writing Prompt @darrenrhill

She took his hand and set a mischievous grin on her face. ‘Right, let’s do this!’

Writing Prompt Expanded

A decision has been made. An activity has been suggested or planned. There is attitude in the air. What decision and what action is up to you. The writing challenge is to convey the determination over the previous uncertainty.

  • What were the doubts before?
  • What changed their minds?
  • How was the decision reached?
  • What physical and emotional changes have occurred?

A change in perspective for this week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt. We’re in the third-person territory. Although you can always choose your perspective, I thought I’d make this one more explicit.

Feel free to change things around. It doesn’t have to be a ‘she’ and ‘he’, it is your writing and that means your characters. The scenario can be anything as well:

  • A decision to love
  • Rule-breaking or lawbreaking
  • A practical joke
  • An escape from a situation
  • let your creativity run free

Have fun and write. No word count or time rules, just take your pen or keyboard and do this.

As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your own interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments or tag me. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.

Original hands image by Pexels from Pixabay


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The Eureka Moment- Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

September 25, 2020 by Darren Leave a Comment

A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

This was it, the breakthrough, the eureka moment. Nothing would be the same. Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

This was it, the breakthrough, the eureka moment. Nothing would be the same.

Writing Prompt Expanded

This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is about capturing the joy and celebration of discovery. The discovery can be anything, although I had in mind some scientific breakthrough, not a text message on a phone (Sorry, I can be a bit of a Sci-Fi geek). It can be something your protagonist has been working on for years or something they stumbled upon. The challenge here is to capture the dawning realisation that things will never be the same.

And perhaps a bigger challenge will be to write without knowing the ‘science’ itself. The discovery can be medical, chemical, metaphysical, quantum, biological… the list is almost endless. But the choice of subject is yours. The only condition is that you write and hopefully have some fun. If you write regularly and often, your writing will improve, that is a scientific fact.

As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your own interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments or tag me. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.

Original computer board image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay


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Be happy – Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

September 18, 2020 by Darren 1 Comment

Be happy – A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

It felt like every muscle on my face took part in producing my smile. My skin stretched like a supple yoga enthusiast. - Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

It felt like every muscle on my face took part in producing my smile. My skin stretched like a supple yoga enthusiast.

Writing Prompt Expanded

This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is all about showing and describing but without telling. Let me explain. The challenge is to show that your character is happy without saying they are happy. It is very easy to say x or y was happy, but it isn’t very exciting and it doesn’t engage the reader on a deeper level. Saying someone is happy is plain and passive. It has its place but will not let your reader engage on a deep level with your character(s). Showing what your character feels, rather than telling, allows the reader to join in the experience. It brings the narrative much closer, and when you write, closeness is good.

It is all about describing the change, from one state of being to happiness.

  • How does your character look?
  • Does their voice change?
  • What is different about them?

Of course, you don’t need to use the prompt as it is. You can play with any emotion or feeling as long as you don’t say what it is, happy, sad, angry etc. No rules just write and enjoy.

As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your own interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments or tag me. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.

Background Image of the lady by Free-Photos from Pixabay


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The old journal – Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

September 11, 2020 by Darren Leave a Comment

A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

I discovered it at the bottom of the trunk. I opened the old, dusty journal and began to read. A life long gone breathed again… Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

I discovered it at the bottom of the trunk. I opened the old, dusty journal and began to read. A life long gone breathed again…

Writing Prompt Expanded

You might have noticed but I like to journal. In fact, I am an avid journal user. I often find I am repeating myself in several places. If you picked up and read my journals, you’d get a pretty good idea of what my life is like. And that is exactly where we are going with this prompt

This prompt is all about recreating a world from the past. Your character is reading an old journal and as they do they discover the life of the person who wrote it.

  • What year was the journal written?
  • Is the journal written by a relative?
  • If they had an occupation, what was it?
  • Was their life difficult or easy?
  • What things concerned them day by day?

This prompt will help you bring an old world to life. Creating a believable setting for your characters and stories is a vital skill. Using this journal style prompt is one way to do that. You describe someone’s life and therefore describe the world they inhabited. And even just several years in the past can make a huge difference to the way people lived. Smartphones and the Internet didn’t exist twenty or so years back.

As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your own interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments or tag me. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.

Original Journal Image by JamesDeMers from Pixabay


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I am helpless – Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

September 4, 2020 by Darren Leave a Comment

A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

There is nothing I can do. My fate is in the hands of the gods. I am helpless. Everything is out of my control. - Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

There is nothing I can do. My fate is in the hands of the gods. I am helpless. Everything is out of my control.

Writing Prompt Expanded

Many things that make us anxious and worried are beyond our control. Our actions rarely affect events in the world around us. We can influence others and play our part and do our thing, but we can’t control events. For instance, the current pandemic is beyond our control. We can do our part in trying to ease transmission but how others and governments act is not down to us. Things beyond our control can make us anxious, and that is what this prompt explores.

  • This prompt is all about feeling hopeless. It is about describing the feeling of not having any control.
  • How does being helpless make you feel?
  • Does being helpless have a physical response in your body?
  • Does it make you act in a different way?

Remember this is not about you personally. This is a fiction writing prompt. It can relate to any situation and the character, even though it is written in the prompt in the first-person, it is not you. The setting of the scene can be for any situation, from something major like a pandemic to something more personal like waiting for a phone call. Characters can find themselves helpless in a variety of situations. However, I hope the prompt doesn’t leave you feeling hopeless as you try to write.

As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your own interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments or tag me. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.


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An unforgettable person – Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

August 28, 2020 by Darren Leave a Comment

A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

The detective walked up to the store worker. “So you saw the man running away? Can you describe him?” Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

The detective walked up to the store worker. “So you saw the man running away? Can you describe him?”

Writing Prompt Expanded

A key skill in writing is the ability to describe someone. All of the characters you create need to be believable. Your characters need to become real as your words are read.

This prompt is all about describing someone and making them real. However, you don’t know anything about them apart from what was seen. There is no backstory to your character. They simply ran past the store worker. So how real can you make them? What things are important to describe?

  • What are they wearing?
  • What do they look like?
  • Do they have any distinguishing marks or features?
  • What about the way they were running?
  • What was their expression?

Beyond the fact that the police are involved and the character was running, the setting of this prompt is up to you. It could be a robbery. It could be a kidnapping. It might be about someone being recognised and trying to getaway. The main point is about describing the man. So let’s get those descriptive words and phrases going.

As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your own interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments or tag me. I’d love to read what you create.

Original running man image Image by Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay


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