Halloween Prompts

In the spirit of October 31, Halloween, here's a few spooky writing prompts, sure to send shivers down your spine, and creativity to your brain.


You've been invited to spend a night at a haunted castle. List the top six things you would pack. Use them all in a story. Start with: Sometimes glamour....

It was a dark and stormy night

The #2 most famous opener! Finish this story by using it as the last seven words in your story. Start with the #1 most famous opener.

Once upon a time....

....it was a dark and stormy night.

I hope you enjoyed these fun Halloween prompts! Comments are encouraged, and favored. Check back daily for more writing prompts and tips (:  --Courtney Lynn

Brilliant Proofreading Tips

Proofreading has been dreaded by many.... but why?! It doesn't have to be hard, like everyone anticipates it to be. All you have to do if follow a few basic, but extraordinary tips.

Step 1: Time, time and more time! Rushing through proofreading is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. The less time you take, you will be missing more and fixing less.

Step 2: Proofread more than once. Each time you reread something, you are bound to find more mess-ups.

Step 3: Change the look of your document. Converting the size of your text, or color, can help you see the document in a whole new way, making proofreading easier.

Word websites

One of my faults as a writer, is that I constantly have to search through a dictionary to find interesting words to jazz up my writing. When I try and think of a synonym for a word, my brain usually fails me.  But have no fear! If your like me, people have been kind enough to make this easier on us by creating websites for things of this nature. 

www.thesaurus.com is a very handy tool for authors looking for interesting words to use. It has a wide variety of different categories of words. For Halloween, it has a slideshow of the spookiest words in the English language, which in my eyes, is pretty neat. It includes a dictionary, thesaurus, quotes, reference guide, and translator. 

www.synonym.com is a basic dictionary and thesaurus website. On the homepage, it gives you a search bar with three tabs: synonym, antonym, and definition. If you are looking for a quick word, or are easily distracted by gadgets like the ones on the website above, this is the one for you.

These are my favorite websites to use when I am in a bind while writing. I hope you find the links helpful, and if you have any other websites you would like toshare, just comment below, and come back daily for new prompts and tips to spark your creativity (:

Cherry Cherry

Think about a cherry.... the feel, the smell, the taste, color. Write three memories or impressions that come to mind. Now use these three in a story.

Start with: Her cheeriness makes me...

Ex. 

1st : "Pretty please with a cherry on top"

2nd : "Red like a cherry"

3rd: Cherry coke.

Her cheeriness makes me think of cherries. It was sometimes too much to handle. While her favorite color was blue, she was red like a cherry. Always laughing, constantly talking, she was bright and bubbly. When she would come over she always had a cherry coke in her purse. Between words, she would pull it out of her bag and take small sips. After 20 sips, she would place the bottle in the freezer for exactly 5 minutes. I assumed she had OCD, but whenever someone would ask, she would quickly change the subject. I sometimes asked her for a drink but she always told me no and fixed me a glass of water. I sometimes begged "Pretty please with a cherry on top?" That always did the trick. She would take a small cup out of the cabinet and fill it up half-way with the cherry coke that I always looked forward to every day.

I would love to hear your version of the cherry cherry prompt, and your short story. Comment below, and come back daily for new prompts and ideas. (:

Pick Six Writing Prompt

Without moving, write down six things within your line of vision, It can be an action, a person, item, texture, emotion, etc. After you pick your six things, use all of them in a story that begins: I was frozen in place.

Ex. My six things were a cat, a warm blanket, paints, my laptop, my phone, and a chair.

I was frozen in place when I woke up from a dead sleep. The temperature had quickly dropped to 30 degrees in the house. I glanced up and seen that my laptop screen was iced over, and my phone was black. My white paint had apparently gotten so cold it froze and the container it was in cracked open like a split watermelon. Momo, my orange tabby cat was lying on my desk chair,and being the lucky creature that he was, had fur, so I knew he was comfortable. I, on the other hand, definitely was not. I had a spare blanket on the top shelf of the closet, and stood up to get it. My bones were aching from the cold, but I kept creeping toward the blanket that seemed to radiate heat. I grabbed it and ran back to the bed so I could finally get relief from the cold.