February Writing Prompts - Week 4

The last batch of writing prompts for the month!

This is the first time I’ve successfully completed one of these challenges — I’ve tried them many times in the past, but this time the plays just flowed. There were only 4 or 5 days where I just wasn’t able to make it to the words “End of Play,” but I don’t feel too bad about that. The point is that I challenged myself and wrote something brand new every single day of February, and that feels pretty cool.

Here are the prompts!

FEBRUARY 22
Written: Write about a counterfeiter or forger
Image: A statue of the goddess Iris raising her sword above a naked man
Music: Lovin U by Alicia Keys

FEBRUARY 23
Written: Caving into peer pressure turned out to be a terrible idea
Image: An image from The Book of Miracles: a flaming log falls from the sky into a large body of water
Music: The Bitch is Back by Elton John

FEBRUARY 24
Written: A woman sits on a roof smoking a cigarette and drinking a bottle of wine. Someone shouts up to her from a window of another building.
Image: The aurora borealis above a wintry landscape
Music: Next Lifetime by Erykah Badu

FEBRUARY 25
Written: A cyclorama: making one, viewing one, living inside one (??)
Image: The exterior of a tiny home in dense, lush forest
Music: The Four Seasons: Summer III by Vivaldi

FEBRUARY 26
Written: A woman desperately wants her mother to give her a ring, an heirloom passed down through three generations
Image: The interior of the Cave of Crystals in Mexico
Music: Somewhere by Aretha Franklin

FEBRUARY 27
Written: It’s been some time since it happened, but you’re still feeling the impact
Image: A thin rim of light behind a closed door in a darkened room
Music: Bird of the Wire by Leonard Cohen

FEBRUARY 28
Written: An asteroid (literal or metaphorical) has arrived to ruin everyone’s day
Image: The moon over a moon garden full of white flowers
Music: Paper Planes by M.I.A.