2022 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Forty-Two

Spooky Season writing prompts for October 15th to 21st

Chelsea Marie
The Storyteller’s Vault
4 min readOct 14, 2022

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Welcome to Week Forty-Two of our 2022 Writing Prompt Journey and the Third Week of Spooky Season! I hope you continue to enjoy all the wonderfully dreadful prompts we’ve created for you this month.

We also have 39 weeks of prompts so far this year (before Spooky Season), that are not so spooky if scary things are not for you.

As always, we have three new prompts awaiting you, and two words/concepts for each that you can try to include in your poems (if you crave a challenge).

Also, if any of these prompts fail to inspire, but the images take you in an entirely different direction, please feel free to follow where your muse leads!

Your poems may be in any form and use any poetic device, but here are a few different ideas of poetic forms to get you started:

  • ekphrastic: a poem with no line or rhyme restrictions or rules, except the poem must be written about or in response to a piece of art that inspires you. This can be a painting (perhaps one of your own), a photograph, or even your child’s crayon drawing.
  • monorhyme: a poem where the end rhyme is the same for every…

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Chelsea Marie
The Storyteller’s Vault

Introvert, writer, wanderer, wonderer ... obsessed with creating writing prompts and poetry. Follow me for your 3X weekly dose of inspiration!