- Start your piece with "The clouds are a dreary sort..."
- Write a fic that is exactly 2327 words
- Write a one-scene play
- Write a piece that centres around a pencil
- Include the dialogue: "You know, you really should..."
- Include the words: deeply, open, wound, learned, stop and regular
- Do not use the letter "o" in your piece
- Include a character that is femme fatale
- Use the quote: "The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices." Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept, to inspire a piece
- Include a minor character surviving a near-death experience
- Write in the horror genre
- Include an immortal character
- Look up the blurb/summary of Tau Zero (by Paul Anderson).Write a piece inspired by that blurb/summary.
- Listen to/read the lyrics for the song: Greying (Exalt). Write a piece inspired by that.
- Include an animated corpse in your piece
- Write an essay about suicide
- "Bitter almonds yield about 6.2 mg of cyanide per almond." Write a piece prompted by this fact.
- Don't use the word "be" in your piece
- Write a cinquain poem
- End your piece with "The chance to write their own beginning had slipped away long ago."
- Start and end with the word "together"
- Write a family/horror piece
- Include the scenario: "They start dicing the pumpkins. For some reason, they never finish."
- Write a piece where the narrator is the only character present in the setting
- Write a fic that has only one paragraph
- Write a piece inspired by the poem July in Washington (Robert Lowell)
- Include the sentence "They held each other tightly, their breath stolen by the fragment of time that grasped them in its net."
- Write a multichapter with exactly 11 chapters
- Write a piece containing only words of three or more syllables.
- Give yourself a personal challenge (and post here with your challeng even if you don't post the fill because I want to see them :D)