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November 30, 2025 Writing Prompts for the Week
Nicki Krawczyk
November 30, 2025
Happy Sunday! Here we are, heading into the last month of 2025. And that, of course, means it’s a good time of year to reflect on this year and plan for the next. When your journal is handy, here are a few prompts that might help:
What went well in 2025? What are you proud of? What were some of your wins? (Big and small)
What didn’t go as well in 2025? What didn’t go according to plan? Be sure to be kind to yourself, but where does your responsibility factor in?
What would you like to see happen in 2026? What would you like to achieve? What would you like to experience?
And, when you’re done with that, it’s time for some creative writing!
This Week’s Prompts*
It was Tot Time and, just as bygone smoking areas pervaded an entire restaurants, the sounds of children pervaded the rest of the library.
Only one stalwart blueberry bush remained after Anna doused the scrub brush with weed killer.
Write a scene in which a car breaks down in front of a fast food drive through window and what happens next.
Giggling wasn't the most appropriate response, but it was the only one that Gino could muster.
Calvert Weeks had been seeing ghosts since well before his first wife passed.
My brother pushed a chair to the counter and then climbed up; the Spaghetti-os had been unloaded by some well-meaning adult who didn't know how our dinners really got made.
"Nonverbal" encompasses a whole range of patient presentations, I tried (unsuccessfully) to explain.
*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 Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case by Chuck Hogan
If you, like me, secretly suspect that you could solve a real-life murder mystery, then you’ll find this book pretty darn gratifying. Four women develop an interest in a cold case and then, through persistence, perseverance, and good investigating, end up solving it. The chronicling of their story is a bit basic, but keeps going at a steady clip and I’m looking forward to getting to the big reveal.
Grab it on Bookshop.org (and support local bookstores!)
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Start before you’re ready.
Links We Like (And Think You Will, Too)
🚛 If you’ve gotten away from regular brain dumps (or aren’t quite sure what they are), let this article be a reminder and a spur to get you back in the habit.
🗣️ I did not attend Author Nation 2025, but Joanna Penn did and, more importantly, she’s sharing her big takeaways with us.
3️⃣ You know I love a chat about productivity and, so, here’s a quick post about three habits to help make us all more productive writers in 2025.
Top (Published) First Line of the Week
It was difficult to imagine a time before them, a world in which they hadn’t come.
From The Measure by Nikki Erlick
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P.S.
Happy (Almost) December!
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