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The Naughty List Prompts

Your Legendary Character doesn’t mind being on the Naughty List this year, especially if they get to be in their company.

Prompt Words
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  1. Notorious
  2. Thirsty
  3. Lace
  4. Wild
  5. Strip
  6. Tease
  7. Naughty
  8. Thrust
  9. Temptation
  10. Sensitive
  11. Lick
  12. Flexible
  1. Stroke
  2. Silk
  3. Bound
  4. Delicate
  5. Expose
  6. Oil
  7. Bite
  8. Satisfied
  9. Firm
  10. Ride
  11. Pleasure
  12. Treat

12 Days of Christmastide Prompts

Alternative Prompts for Non-Romance Writers

Use the 12 Days of Christmas song verses as prompts to write 12 non-winter holiday-themed short stories.

Prompt Words
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  1. A partridge in a pear tree
  2. Two turtledoves
  3. Three French hens
  4. Four calling birds
  5. Five gold rings
  6. Six geese a-laying
  7. Seven swans a-swimming
  8. Eight maids a-milking
  9. Nine ladies dancing
  10. Ten lords a-leaping
  11. Eleven pipers piping
  12. Twelve drummers drumming

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Harvest Feast Prompts

While walking through a wood of golden birch your Legendary Character suddenly finds themself amongst a marvelous fairy feast. They are ushered to a seat at the long table which stretches far in either direction. They were told never to partake of what the Fair Folk offer, but it seems terribly rude to refuse.

Prompt Words
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  1. Pumpkin
  2. Spice
  3. Treat
  4. Feast
  5. Pomegranate
  6. Stuffed
  7. Decadent
  8. Harvest
  9. Bread
  10. Baked
  11. Amber
  12. Delicacy
  13. Fruit
  14. Sweet
  15. Excess
  1. Copper
  2. Table
  3. Roast
  4. Bargain
  5. Greet
  6. Turkey
  7. Carve
  8. Autumn
  9. Marvelous
  10. Pie
  11. Dish
  12. Appetite
  13. Banquet
  14. Berry
  15. Grateful

Haunting Prompts

Your Legendary Character’s car (or carriage) breaks down at the threshold of a small village at the edge of a dark forest. As they enter the village on foot strange music drifts toward them on a chilly autumn breeze.

Prompt Words
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  1. Haunting
  2. Eerie
  3. Bones
  4. Vanished
  5. Ominous
  6. Scratch
  7. Antique
  8. Darkness
  9. Ebony
  10. Bride
  11. Mysterious
  12. Skulls
  13. Spoiled
  14. Vampire
  15. Spooky
  16. Grave
  1. Ethereal
  2. Obscure
  3. Rotten
  4. Creeping
  5. Ivory
  6. Bloody
  7. Night
  8. Monstrous
  9. Defiled
  10. Ghost
  11. Howling
  12. Ravenous
  13. Cemetery
  14. Decay
  15. Banish

Scenetember Prompts

Write a 250-500 word scene based on the prompt words below. Your scene can be a side quest for a book you’ve already made, an alternate universe for an established story, or something entirely new.

Prompt Words
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  1. Statue
  2. Gossip
  3. Emblem
  4. Duel
  5. Gem
  6. Faint
  7. Notorious
  8. Brother
  9. Institution
  10. Fever
  11. Tempt
  12. Privilege
  13. Deviation
  14. Blast
  15. Cunning
  1. Forget
  2. Expertise
  3. Seal
  4. Affinity
  5. Charm
  6. Shiver
  7. Note
  8. Fountain
  9. Storm
  10. Exploration
  11. Morning
  12. Flower
  13. Obsession
  14. Twilight
  15. Dance

Smaugust Prompts

Ignite your creative brain by writing a 250-500 word scene based on these dragon-inspired word prompts below. Your scene can be a side quest for a book you’ve already made, an alternate universe for an established story, or something entirely new.

*NOTE: These prompts were not chosen by me but were part of the anual Smaugust Challenge

Prompt Words
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  1. Doll
  2. Revive
  3. Sunshine
  4. Rotten
  5. Lake
  6. Storm
  7. Ash
  8. Cellar
  9. Grubby
  10. Harvest
  11. Worm
  12. Scrap
  13. Pier
  14. Soul
  15. Venomous
  16. Lion
  1. Restless
  2. Broken
  3. Abandon
  4. Coffin
  5. Deep
  6. Lost
  7. Core
  8. Offense
  9. Mud
  10. Misery
  11. Fate
  12. Mark
  13. Harbor
  14. Criminal
  15. Monarch