Script Events Competitions Free Downloads Subscribe Shop

Online Writing Workshops

Write Better Fiction Write Better Nonfiction Write Better Poetry Get Published Be Inspired WD Competitions Resources

Freaky Friday

Writing Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Literary fights, Spider-Man reviews, new J.D. Salinger yarns Zachary Petit

Writing Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Authors love Eminem, Humpty Dumpty seeks vengeance, Sylvia Plath draws hot dogs Zachary Petit

Writing Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Justin Bieber and Holden Caulfield; Harry Potter V. Willy the Wizard; Throwing a book at the president Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Literary tattoos, a Betty White comic book, and the curious case of Operation Dark Heart Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Crashing Stephen King’s place, Star Trek zombies, and dictionary drama Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Lunar man-bats, a 6-year-old with a book deal, and Danny Glover as Captain Ahab Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts Weekend Prompt: Write the tweets of a deceased hero, historical figure, or literary great Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: The strange tale of a subway station in honor of Dostoevsky (plus, a weekend prompt)Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts Weird Week in Writing: The last audiobook you’d ever expect; Shakespeare crook goes to jail; the writer of Armageddon makes Salinger film Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts Weird Week in Writing: The craziest literary beer ever; Hemingway look-alikes; luxury tomes made from moon rocks and … blood?!Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts Weekend Writing Challenge: The Tweet That Changed Everything Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: New line of Hemingway shoes, Sarah Palin’s tween bio, Faulkner speaking up after all these years Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing (plus a 4th of July prompt challenge): Harper Lee re-emerges, a novelist sells her first book at 82, and a writer pens the best worst line of the year Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Neil Gaiman on today’s vampires, Stephenie Meyer on being burned out (Plus a weekend writing prompt)Zachary Petit

Traditional Prompts The Weird Week in Writing: Clive Owen as Hemingway, turning your iPad into a typewriter, and Oprah’s magazine marvel Zachary Petit