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Prompt Yourself: Weekly Prompts November 4–10 (Shiver)

Writing prompts to tempt your muses

Dr. Casey Lawrence
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7 min readNov 4, 2024

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Brrr! It’s starting to get cold here in Sweden, the spooky season has only just ended.

Welcome to Week 43 of 2024 Writing Prompts at Promptly Written! For this week’s theme, I’d like to bridge the space between Autumn and Winter by thinking about what the two have in common: shivers.

What sent a shiver down your spine this Halloween? I figure an extra week of spooky, chilly prompts was just what the doctor ordered!

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 self-publish. If you submit somewhere besides PW, make sure to include a link to the prompt and tag PW editors so that we do not miss reading your story!
  3. You don’t have to use PW’s prompts to submit work here. We are…

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Dr. Casey Lawrence
Dr. Casey Lawrence

Written by Dr. Casey Lawrence

Canadian author of three LGBT YA novels. PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.

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