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I have got to a point where I need to streamline my daily activity, so, I have to place the Daily Writing Prompt on hold. I know that no matter how hard I try to get it moving again right now, I just do not have the time I would have to dedicate to maintaining it, so – I am going to place it on hold for a little while and will pick it back up when things slow back down.

Okay, so my life has been more than a little hectic, it has been downright brutal.  I have my virtual office getting organized, so hopefully things will hit back onto an even level and I will be able to get back to my prompts here every day.  I have such wonderful daydreams about actually keeping up with work one of these days, and one of these days I might just surprise myself and have it actually happen.

I have decided that I need to make a few changes here, starting with clearing up a difference in tags vs title for the daily writing prompts.

I realized that I have been archiving them all as “story prompt”, which is what they are, and titling them as “Writing prompt:” – I am going to start changing the way that I am titling the posts, make the title and the tag the same.  I am also going to add a couple of new titles and tags that I had been meaning to for a while now.  The titles / tags that will predominate the daily writing prompt now are:

Story Prompt: a prompt for those who are working on a story.  These are generic prompts that can be slipped into any story as a nudge to give the muses something to work from.

Writing Prompt: a writing prompt is for writers that have no idea what to write about.  This is something that could be used to start an entirely new short story, article or novel.

Writing Tip: tips on writing that are not so much about how to write as about how to write a good story.  These are probably going to be most useful in the editing stages.

Non-fiction Prompt: this is a prompt for writing articles and other non-fiction work.  It might be on an idea for what someone might be writing about, suggestions for types of articles or words of advice from magazine editors and other writers on writing articles and non-fiction.

I guess I have overloaded my brain or something, because as much as I kept thinking, I need to post a daily writing prompt today, I just never seemed to remember to get it done. I have been doing a lot of work on my websites the past few days, and will be getting back to this one to get daily prompts and more posted to it. Apologies to anyone that has been wondering what happened – it is just a simple case of end of winter cabin fever brain fog.

Today’s writing prompt: Overload. Maybe like me your character has a overload on the brain and just keeps forgetting basic little things that they mean to get done. You could have it be an electrical overload instead, or an overload of some other kind.

Today’s writing prompt comes along with a contest. And it is a very very kewl contest if I do say so myself.

A Cowboy’s Wife is having a contest on her food blog! You can win a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer and she’ll ship anywhere so everyone is eligible!

This is a very kewl prize for her first contest, and the blog is one of my favorite food blogs to visit. I’m sharing the contest here to let everyone have a chance to find out about it (contest lasts till the end of January), and because I really want a good chance of winnig the mixer. I need one, mine’s on its last legs.

The Writing Prompt: What’s Cooking

You can either have your character cooking something or trying to learn to cook. Maybe your heroine has plans to make a great dinner for the man she is romancing? I remember years ago my sister (then in her teens) wanted to impress a boy so she made spaghetti, poor girl, first time she ever made it and she refused to let our mom help. It came out of the pot as a spaghetti cake that was sliced at the table. Seems to me it was really good, but oh my, what a unique way to serve spaghetti.

I can just imagine some of the ways this could be used in a Sci-Fi novel, from the hero having his first experience with alien cuisine to his trying to explain a traditional Earth dish to an alien species.

In my own writing you can often tell what I was eating when I was writing, because it is often reflected in the stuff my characters are eating. So, go check out the contest at My Wooden Spoon via one of the links above, then get to typing and see what’s cooking in your story.