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Welcome to the fifth week of writing prompts in 2024! The Mother Goose rhyme about birthdays I used as inspiration for my last two weeks of prompts has a few sisters. This rhyme, for example, extant from the American Philosophical Society’s 1888 “Proceedings… [for] Promoting Useful Knowledge” (page 160), offers superstitions about what day it is best to be married:

Monday for wealth;
Tuesday for health;
Wednesday the best day of all;
Thursday for crosses;
Friday for losses;
Saturday no luck at all.

As it happens, I just got married on a Monday. (Wish us luck!) This week, I’ll be using these marriage-superstition themes for each day’s prompts.

Before we get started, here are a couple of quick reminders:

How This Works

1. Use these prompts to write poetry, fiction, an essay, creative non-fiction, or an article. They are totally open to interpretation! Include a link to the prompt at the bottom of your post.
2. If you use one of these prompts, you can submit the result here at PW, to any publication that accepts prompts from other publications, or…