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18 Haunted Writing Prompts

10/14/2012

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PictureImage credit: "Time to Write" by koalazymonkey via Flickr.
By Shannon Robinson.

Mid-October. The nights are getting longer, and the temperature is dropping. Maybe it’s my Canadian blood, but I thrive in the chill. And the extra hours of darkness encourage me to hunker down and write. As Halloween approaches, I think there’s no better time to start a ghost story. Even if you’ve never written a spooky story—or any kind of story, why not give it a try? You may surprise yourself. Frankenstein was eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley’s first work of fiction. She started writing it for a competition between her, Percy Bysshe, John Polidori, and Lord Byron to see who could write the best horror tale. (... I think she won.)

But here’s a scary thing: the blank page. Below is a list of open-ended writing prompts if you need help getting started:


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      • Clockwork, Curses, and Coal
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      • Falling of the Moon
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      • Far Orbit Apogee
      • Fractured Days
      • Frozen Fairy Tales
      • Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
      • Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters
      • Grandmother Paradox
      • Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline
      • Haunted Housewives
      • Heir to the Lamp
      • He Sees You When He's Creepin': Tales of Krampus
      • Into the Moonless Night
      • Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow
      • King of Ash and Bones (ebook)
      • Krampusnacht
      • Last Dream of Her Mortal Soul
      • Meddlers of Moonshine
      • Mothers of Enchantment
      • Mrs Claus
      • Multispecies Cities
      • Murder in the Generative Kitchen
      • Recognize Fascism
      • Scarecrow
      • Sirens
      • Shards of History
      • Shattered Fates
      • Skull and Pestle
      • Solarpunk (Translation)
      • Solomon's Bell
      • SonofaWitch!
      • Speculative Story Bites
      • Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls
      • Weredog Whisperer
      • Wolves and Witches
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