Category: Plinky Prompts

Sea or sky? Why?

Set a timer for sixty seconds. Without thinking or stopping to edit yourself, race that timer like a champ until you have a stack of single word titles. Now give yourself thirty seconds. At the end of that thirty seconds you will have chosen two of these words, glued them haphazardly together, and steeled yourself to write a post about or inspired by them. Go, go, go, time’s a wastin’.

Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life in some way. Write about that.

Sarcasm: Love it or leave it?

Run outside. Take a picture of the first thing you see. Run inside. Take a picture of the second thing you see. Write about the connection between these two random objects, people or scenes.

Review the most delicious meal you’ve ever been served, as if it were a movie.

Remember the days before you got the Internet at home?

Recommend a book to a friend going through a tough breakup.

Recall your very first day of school. How did you feel? Write about it.

Recall a memorable family vacation or get-together.