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December 7, 2025 Writing Prompts for the Week
Happy Sunday! I’m deep into baking competitions to pass the evening hours this month. Did you know that the reason “The Great British Bake Off” is called “The Great British Baking Show” in the US is because the Pillsbury company owns the rights to the term “bake off” over here?
It’s true. Just goes to show how powerful (and lucrative) words can be.
Speaking of works, here are your prompts!
This Week’s Prompts*
Calvin's "a" key was stuck and, considering his computer password was "BananaMan84," so was he.
No one in the coffee shop had removed or even unzipped their coats, each picture window providing no protection from the cold.
Write a scene in which a company meeting is derailed by a very unexpected sound.
The fifth grade baking contest proved just how similar sugar and salt looked and how easily they were misidentified.
This was not the first time he'd had to pay to buff out goat hoofprints on the hood of his car.
"Grab me another diet soda next time you go by the fridge; none of the nurses even drink them, anyway."
For eight minutes on Tuesday morning, I was a veritable god.
*How to Use These Prompts: The italicized prompts let you create your writing entirely from scratch; the non-italicized prompts are intended as your first line and jumping off point. But, at the same time, there are no rules. Write on!
Book(s) We’re Reading This Week
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Apparently this was a “word of mouth” hit and, since I got it as a gift for my book club’s Secret Santa party, it does seem to be making the rounds. In it, Sylvia Van Antwerp reflects on her life through a series of letters and discovers where she has missteps to atone for. Reading-wise, so far, so good!
Grab it on Bookshop.org (and support local bookstores!)
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My theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever after.
Top (Published) First Line of the Week
This is what happened in Faha over the Christmas of 1962, in what became known in the parish as the time of the child.
From Time of the Child by Niall Williams
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