Category: Plinky Prompts

For many of us, winter is blooming into spring, or fall hardening into winter. Which season do you most look forward to?

For a moment today, time stands still – but you can tweak one thing while it’s stopped. What do you do?

For many of us the seasons are changing, bouncing unpredictably between cold and warm. Are you glad to be moving into a new season, or wishing for one more week of the old?

Facebook has recently come under attack for failing to enforce its own guidelines on hate speech and violent imagery. Is it a website’s job to moderate the content users post, or should users have freedom to say what they want? Is there a happy medium?

Finish this sentence: “When I look in the mirror, I . . . “

Fiction writers: You’re stuck in an elevator with an intriguing stranger. Write this scene. Non-fiction writers: You’re stuck in an elevator with a person from your past. Write this scene.

Explain your biggest regret – as though to a small child.

Does a messy home (or office) make you anxious and cranky, or is cleaning something you just do before company comes over?

Draft a post with three parts, each unrelated to the another, but create a common thread between them by including the same item – an object, a symbol, a place – in each part.

Do you like being scared by books, films, and surprises? Describe the sensation of being scared, and why you love it – or don’t.