Today's Writing Prompt: Scary

Write about something scary.

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Today's Writing Prompt: Amusement

Write about an experience you've had at an amusement park, carnival, or circus.

If you've never been to one, write about that.

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Weekly Mister Linky: 10/30-11/5

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Today's Writing Prompt: Cookie

Describe your favorite cookie, as if you're trying to sell it.

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Friday Fiction: Flawless

Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt, "Flawless."

Thanks to Deanna Z. for suggesting this prompt on The One-Minute Writer Facebook Page!

Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I don't generally take the length of the post into account when I name a Friday winner.

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Today's Writing Prompt: Motivation

What motivation have you lost? Do you want to regain it?

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Today's Writing Prompt: Trigger

What is the biggest trigger for stress in your life?

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Today's Writing Prompt: Picture

Draw me a picture. Use words as your media.

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Today's Writing Prompt: News

Write about a piece of news you recently heard.

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Today's Writing Prompt: Cute

If I look up "cute as a button" in the encyclopedia, what picture should be next to it?

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Weekly Mister Linky: 10/23-10/29

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Today's Writing Prompt: Six Word Saturday

Describe your life in six words.

Six Word Saturdays is a weekly series over at Call Me Cate's funny blog, Show My Face. We do Six Word Saturdays monthly(ish) at The One-Minute Writer, but feel free to participate on your own every week--click the button below for more info! Have fun!

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Today's Writing Prompt: Green

Write about a way that you'd like to improve in the way you treat the planet.

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Today's Writing Prompt: Jerk

Write about a time you acted like a jerk.

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Today's Writing Prompt: Inspired

What is the last thing you read, heard, or saw that inspired you?

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Today's Writing Prompt: Elevator music

Many people get annoyed with the music played in elevators, or with "hold music" on the phone. What should be played through elevator speakers and telephone systems instead?

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Today's Writing Prompt: Center

Write about a time you were the center of attention, and how you felt about it.

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Nymphadora

I slept and cried through the hospital, the sisters, cousins, parents, and nurses all marvelling at me, the new arrival. The attention of the people I would come to know as my family, I'm sad to say, passed unremembered.

Congratulations on another win, Nymphadora! I enjoyed your clever response!

Today's Writing Prompt: Game

Write about a game you like to play or a game you like to watch others play.

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Mike Trippiedi

Life. Not the board game - the real one.

Congratulations on another win, Mike! I like that game too...most of the time, anyway!

Weekly Mister Linky: 10/16-10/22

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Today's Writing Prompt: Honor

What is honor?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: June Calender

Although, in some societies and places, honor has been perverted to preserve patriarchal and tribal autonomy, it is supposed to mean honesty in dealings with others based on respect for other individuals and the legal system of society.

Congratulations on another win, June! This is a great definition of honor.

One-Minute Writing of the Week: Hank

I choose one of the daily winning response from each week and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 9/18-9/24.

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: Hank Greer (Wednesday's winner)

Prompt: Happy Rewrite. Rewrite the following sentence in a way that is more interesting and less cliched:

And they lived happily ever after.

***

Spending their remaining years together while living off the grid, they never got to read this.

That's just the way they wanted it.

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Friday Fiction: Transfer

Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt, "Transfer."

Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I don't generally take the length of the post into account when I name a Friday winner.

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Lilly

The phone rings. I check the caller ID. It is ex-boyfriend. I let it ring a few more times before I answer.
"Hi," I say. "What's up?"
"I'm getting a transfer. Work is sending me to Melbourne. Guess what buddy. We're going to be neighbours again."
Just when I thought life was getting back to normal.

Congratulations on the win, Lilly! I didn't know this would be a horror story...(ha ha.) Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Timing

Complete this thought: "It would be really bad timing if...."

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: davidseven

If the timer ran out before I was finished writing my answ...

Congratulations on another win, davidseven! Thanks for another clever response.

Today's Writing Prompt: Recover

What are you recovering from right now?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Ashley

The past year has been recovery. Recovery from work that sucked me dry, sickness, emotional injury, contemplation of life's injustices. There are many of those.
Today I am sitting in Berlin, far from the spears that did so much damage. I wonder if I have run away, and I wonder how I should proceed. I wonder if I am strong enough for whatever comes next. Has recovery ruined me? Has reflection taken my "can do attitude"? Am I living in fear?

Congratulations on the win, Ashley! I hope you can find answers to your questions--and meanwhile, I hope you enjoy Berlin! Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Protest

Have you ever been involved in a protest? If so, describe it. If not, is there anything that you'd want to protest?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Curly-T

I am currently in a personal protest. I protest that, really, I DO NOT like cleaning, but sitting down to a messy house in the evening drives me crazy.
And others I know? Well, they protest that, really, the love order and cleanliness, but they refuse to clean because there is always something more important.
Funny how we protest against something we feel an personal need to do.

Congratulations on another win, Curly-T! I relate to this all too well....

Today's Writing Prompt: Twice

Most of us remember when gas was half the price it is now. (It wasn't very long ago!) Write about something you'd still buy if it cost twice as much as it costs today.

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Janet

ChickfilA sugar free lemonade already costs twice as much as it ought to, but I'd still buy it even if it were twice as much as it is now, which, I guess, would make me willing to pay four times as much as I ought to, which might make me twice as foolish as I should be, but, darn it, I am pretty hooked on that lemonade, so, if you're going, you don't have to tell me twice, just let me grab my wallet!

Congratulations on another win, Janet! This is very clever...and it makes me want some lemonade.

Today's Writing Prompt: Hour

If you were given an extra hour a day and you had to spend it in the same way every day, what would you do during that hour?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Nymphadora

During that hour I would pick apples. If I had to use it the same way every day, then that would mean apples were in season all year!

Congratulations on another win, Nymphadora! I like that idea!

Weekly Mister Linky: 10/9-10/15

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Today's Writing Prompt: Work

What is the last thing you worked hard at?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: For blue skies.

College. I've never studied this hard or actually put this much effort into academics before, but it counts for so much more now- and costs more.

Congratulations on another win, For blue skies.! Sounds like your head is in just the right place.

Friday Fiction: Luck

Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt, "Luck."

Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I don't generally take the length of the post into account when I name a Friday winner.

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: buddhafulkat.com

Lady Luck's Resignation

It's a never ending job. Spreading good and bad fortune 24/7.

John buys a lottery ticket every day and never wins. Tim buys his first one and wins 67 million. Claudia cruises along to work hitting every green light and Maggie hits every red. Roy's tire blows out on a mountain pass along a hairpin curve and he rolls off the road. A thick nest of trees catches his vehicle, preventing him from plummeting to his death. Brad slams on his brakes to avoid hitting the overturned oil rig on the freeway and stoppes an inch away only to be rearended ingiting a fiery explosion. Terry comes home to find a lost kitten on her porch. Jessa finds a rattle snake under hers.

It's not about fairness. It's just about making sure everyone has some, good or bad. It doesn't matter how much or if it balances out - all that matters is that everyone has some. 6.7 billion people on this planet and I have to keep track of all of them.

I never get any sleep.

I quit.

Congratulations on the win,buddhafulkat.com ! What a fun response. (Poor Lady Luck.) Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Steve Jobs

In what way has your life been most affected by Steve Jobs' innovations?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Marsha

iCarry an iPhone every where iGo!

Congratulations on another win, Marsha! This is simple and clever!

Today's Writing Prompt: Week

What do you look forward to every week?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Billy Jorgensen

Monday's child is struggling to find his school uniform.
Tuesday's child is short of socks. Already.
Wednesday's child has lost their permission slips.
Thursday's child has footy practice after school.
Friday's child needs cash for a lunch order.
Saturday's child plays Saturday morning soccer.
Sunday's child has hidden Friday's child's uniform under their bed. So it won't be washed for Monday.
I look forward to college.

Congratulations on another win, Billy! I love this altered version of the old poem...though it kind of makes me dread the day that my second child starts school!

Today's Writing Prompt: Card

What playing card best represents you?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Heather Head

The Ace is simple, straightforward, unified, One. Capable of being the leader of the pack or the lowly support that makes everything else work.

I'm an ace, and probably a spade. I love the earth. Gardening, nature, compost, dirt.

Besides, the ace of spades trumps all. Who wouldn't want to be me?

Congratulations on the win, Heather! You know, it's funny.... Somehow I'd never thought of what the "spade" on a card really is. I like your choice, Madam Ace of Spades. Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Mass-produced

Several months ago, I asked you what is always better homemade.

For today's prompt...what do you prefer when it's mass-produced?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Ron

All the ads say it’s hot and juicy, and it’s hot alright, but the juicy’s really just grease that congeals pretty quickly back into fat. He’s reasonably sure he can feel it coating his arteries even before he swallows it. None of this, though, keeps him from eating there three or four times a week, nor does it cause him to consider ordering a salad or the lo-cal fruit parfait.
His wife tells him he’s turning into a bacon-wrapped double cheeseburger, but all he hears is how delicious he is, how much she wants to gobble him up. He loves her dearly, but she just doesn’t satisfy him anymore. He’s always at least a little disappointed when her home cooking lacks the same degree of hypercaloric excess, refuses to dribble down his chin, promises neither cardiac arrhythmia nor an ever- expanding waistline.

Congratulations on another win, Ron.! This somehow managed to entertain me, make me think, and kind of gross me out, all at the same time. Nice job.

Today's Writing Prompt: A/F

Write about something that you'd grade as "A" and/or something you'd grade as "F."

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Snellopy

Having a vivid and active imagination is definitely an A in my book. Rarely am I bored (and the few times it happens I savour it as an uncommon experience). The special effects and explosions in books are better than movies.

I have a wonderful time amusing myself. Life is so entertaining living inside my head.

Congratulations on the win, Snellopy! I love having an active imagination. Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Weekly Mister Linky: 10/2-10/8

If you respond to a prompt on your own website/blog this week, feel free to link here! And you're also welcome to use this week's Mister Linky if you write a blog post about The One-Minute Writer.

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1. Enter your name, and let us know which day's prompt you're responding to (e.g., "Beth Monday").
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One-Minute Writing of the Week: bg

I choose one of the daily winning response from each week and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 9/11-9/17.

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: bg (Friday's winner)

Prompt: Friday Fiction: Pop. Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt, "Pop."

My grandpop and I set down the cannon. He loaded it with gun powder and sand. He lit the wick and ran.

I stood far away and waited. It wasn't long.

The pronounced explosion ricocheted across the bay. On the other side, I heard the bang.

At my feet, where I stood, a burnt remnant of the wick lay.

Congratulations, bg! You're welcome to put a One-Minute Writing of the Week Winner button on your blog. Click here if you'd like to snag it.

Today's Writing Prompt: Hands

If your hands could talk, what would they say?

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Coppertop

freckles, scars, blue veins
calluses build character
sweet imperfections

but really, lady,
every once in a while
get a manicure

Congratulations on the win, Coppertop! I like your hands' qualities...including their humor! Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.