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The Writing Prompt is a cue to a writer on what they should be doing next. It can be thought of as the literary equivalent of the prompter that sits un the wings of a theater and cues actors on lines they have forgotten or where they should move to to hit their mark.

A definition search on Google defines “writing prompt” as:

“means a writing assignment or constructed scenario designed to effect a particular kind of writing: comparison, process, narration.” - www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cistandards2001/la/cilaglossary.htm

“A statement that asks the students to write a paper about a specific topic. It defines the audience and purpose for writing.” – www.groton.k12.ct.us/curric/lacurric/lagloss.htm

The Daily Writing Prompt will draw from all of these definitions to build a series of prompts and cues for writers.  It will be a cue to writers to give them ideas for what to do as a means of going on in their stories, it will offer inspiration to writers for what they could write about, offer suggestions on audiences to try writing for and the purpose the writing should achieve, and suggest types of writing to tackle from comparison to how-to articles.

This is a prompt for creativity and to help ease past writer’s block.  It will cover everything from prompts for fiction to nonfiction, literature to script writing, journals to blogs.  You may even find a prompt or so on greeting cards, songs and poetry.

Okay, I am being driven crazy by the code I have been monkeying with, so forget it.  I am not waiting on the code to be right any longer, I am just going to start posting the stuff here and it can look bland until I get the template sorted out the way I want it to be.  Seriously thinking about making my own template from scratch as bad as changing colors on the links is bugging me.

But, the good news is, I am not going to put off the writing prompts because of code any longer – I will start today and enter the daily writing prompts.