NaNoWordSprints Prompts for November 2018
Finally! These are at least sort of on time. At least I’m not waiting a full year to post them. Anyways, have fun with these writing prompts!
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November 1, 2018, 10:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Madam Sprints Sprints
10 min | screaming |
15 min | entering store |
30 min | taking a seat |
10 min | it’s all ruined |
20 min | magic mirror |
November 6, 2018, 7:30pm-12:20am (UTC-8)
Food Facts
10 min |
fish sauce – something disappearing because something new replaced it
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20 min |
melons – perplexing the experts
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30 min |
resurrection cheese – ruins
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10 min |
grapefruit – forbidden (citrus x paradisi) (Jamaican sweet orange and Indonesian pomelo)
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20 min |
börek – rivals (rival monarchs)
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30 min |
shipworm, shivers of pleasure
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10 min | isinglass – book |
20 min | lettuce – soporific |
30 min |
spices – difficult to define
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10 min |
jellyfish, tender, crunchy and elastic
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20 min | wigs – symbolic |
15 min | pizza – layers |
10 min |
waffles – becoming a leader (Germany becoming a leader in development of waffle recipes in the 18th century)
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November 8, 2018, 10:00pm-11:00pm (UTC-8)
Unusual Modes of Transportation
10 min | hot air balloon |
20 min | penny farthing |
10 min | space hopper |
November 9, 2018, 9:00pm-11:00pm (UTC-8)
June 2012 Book Titles
10 min | gone missing |
20 min | love in disguise |
30 min |
breaking the rules
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10 min | damage control |
20 min | temptation |
November 11, 2018, 7:00pm-11:00pm (UTC-8)
Names and Meanings
10 min |
Isra (Arabic/nocturnal journey), Miyako (Japanese/beautiful night child), Otieno (East African/born at night)
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20 min |
Behrooz (Persian/good day), Dagmar (Old Norse/day maid), Daisy (Old English/day eye)
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30 min |
Meltem (Turksih/sea wind), Tuulikki (Finnish/little wind), Amihan (Tagalog/winter storm)
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10 min |
Emeka (Western Africa/great deeds), Grant (French/great, large), Morrigan (Irish/great queen)
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20 min |
Leto (Greek/hidden, forgotten), Darnell (Old English/hidden nook), Amon (Egyptian/the hidden one)
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30 min |
Chloris (Greek/pale green), Qing (Chinese/blue, green, young), Irving (Scottish/green water)
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10 min |
Somsak (Thai/worthy power, honor), Mandla (Southern African/strength, power), Ulric (Old English/wolf power)
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15 min |
Ahtahkakoop (Native American/star blanket), Jiemba (Indigenous Australian/laughing star), Maristela (Spanish/star of the sea)
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30 min |
Brynmor (Welsh/great hill), Ruba(Arabic/hill), Hamilton (Old English/crooked hill)
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10 min |
Kahina (Northern African/the fortuneteller), Tashi (Tibetan/good fortune), Audhild (Norwegian/fortune and battle)
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November 13, 2018, 8:00pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
HAL Sprints
10 min | fixing things |
20 min | double checking |
30 min |
struggling with command
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10 min |
getting to the source
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20 min | argument |
30 min |
shutting down the rogue
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20 min | into the unknown |
November 15, 2018, 10:30am-11:00am (UTC-8)
SFO Sprints
30 min | flying |
November 16, 2018, 6:30am-9:00am (UTC-8)
The Great Train Escape
10 min | traveling |
20 min | eavesdropping |
30 min | double entendre |
10 min | groundbreaking |
20 min | innovation |
30 min | fantastic scenery |
November 17, 2018, 6:00pm-9:00pm (UTC-8)
Night of Writing Dangerously Sprints (Prompts by NOWD Participants)
10 min |
a sea monster that is more comedic than scary
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20 min |
every phone in the room begins to ring in a cacaphony of turkey gobbles
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30 min (part 1) |
your main character falls out of a window naked
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30 min (part 2) |
you’ve approached the elevator and the down button has been selected already, but no one is there
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10 min |
insert a message on a wall written in something unusual: blood, glowstick fluid, super-glued coins
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20 min |
your main character slow dances with their new pet cat
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30 min (part 1) |
a pigeon appears and lands on the love interest’s head
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30 min (part 2) |
that’s what she said
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25 min (part 1) |
a character just stepped into a bear trap
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25 min (part 2) |
a character breaks into a musical number
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November 21, 2018, 12:00am-2:00am (UTC-8)
Postcard Sprints
10 min |
opulent surroundings
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20 min | chaos |
30 min | familial ties |
10 min |
the power of science
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20 min | running away |
November 21, 2018, 7:00pm-9:00pm (UTC-8)
Phrases
10 min |
eat, drink, and be merry
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20 min |
heard it through the grapevine
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30 min |
the elephant in the room
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10 min |
all that glitters is not gold
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20 min |
piece of the action
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November 22, 2018, 8:00am-11:00am (UTC-8)
Lost Words Part 1
10 min |
fallaciloquence (deceitful speech), foppotee (simpleton), fumificate (to make smoke), famigerate (to carry news from abroad)
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20 min |
labascate (to begin to fall or slide), lampistry (art of decorating lamps), lugent (weeping), latibule (hiding place)
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30 min |
acrasial (ill-tempered), alabandical (stupefied by drink), austerulous (slightly harsh), amarulence (bitterness, spite)
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10 min |
temerate (to break a promise), tremefy (to cause to tremble), tussicate (to cough), teterrimous (most foul)
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20 min |
mariturient (eager to marry), misqueme (to displease), murklins (in the dark), morsicant (producing the sensation of repeated biting or pricking)
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30 min |
cacozealous (imitating badly), celeripedian (swift-footed), citharize (to play the harp), crocitation (croaking)
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5 min |
welmish (of a pale or sickly color), wanchancy (unlucky), whipcat (tailor), wondermonger (one who promises miracles)
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10 min |
namelings (persons bearing the same name), nidifice (a nest), nerterology (study of the dead or the underworld), noscible (well-known)
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November 22, 2018, 4:00pm-8:00pm (UTC-8)
Lost Words Part 2
10 min |
damson (dark brownish purple), didapper (someone who disappears and bobs up again), diffluent (readily flowing away), dudgeon (resentment)
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20 min |
brio (enthusiastic vigour), bilious (ill-tempered), barracan (fine silk cloth), burrole (an eavesdropper)
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30 min |
rinkomania (obsession with skating), roulade (melodic embellishment sung to one syllable), rannygazoo (foolish nonsense), rigescent (becoming numb or stiff)
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10 min |
eclat (to make notorious), encraty (self-control), etiolate (to make pale by depriving of light), ebeneous (like or resembling ebony)
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20 min |
privatism (attitude of avoiding involvement in outside interests), psittacism (parrot-like repetition of speech), pabouche (a slipper), peise (weight, burden, load)
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30 min |
gewgaw (toy, trifling object, bauble), gulpin (credulous person), gyve (to fetter, to shackle), galanty (shadow play)
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10 min |
vafrous (cunning, sly), videlicet (to wit), vorpal (keen, deadly), veneniferous (carrying poison)
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20 min |
haematic (blood-colored), hednon (wedding present), homarine (pertaining to lobsters), hypogeal (underground)
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30 min |
kismet (fate, destiny), kyphorrhinos (humped nose), knarred (gnarled, knotty), kalon (beauty that is more than skin deep)
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5 min |
uberty (fruitfulness, abundant productiveness), umbracious (shady), upaithric (roofless, open to the sky), ustulation (buring, roasting)
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November 23, 2018, 9:00pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
October and November 2011 Book Titles
10 min |
sparks, saints astray, swift edge, some like it hot, stuck
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20 min |
revelations, race against time, rush, roam, the reckoning
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30 min |
last breath, love of the game, lesser evils, letting misery go, legend
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10 min |
blink of an eye, before the fall, bride of the night, breaking point, blank confession
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20 min |
heart of darkness, hunter of shadows, hit girls, his steadfast love, head over heels
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30 min |
cold glory, cloudburst, cemetery girl, crushed, covenant
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10 min |
firestorm, fake me a match, flipped out, flyaway, the final exam
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20 min |
darkness rising, destined, deadly desires, the disappearing dog, devoted
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30 min |
it happened on a train, the infernals, if I tell, in memories we fear, imposters
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5 min |
expectations of happiness, engaged with the boss, everybody sees the ants, enchanted by the blood, eyes to see
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November 24, 2018, 8:00am-11:00am (UTC-8)
Tea Superstitions
10 min |
Putting milk in your tea before sugar could condemn you to a life of solitude.
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20 min |
Leaving the top off the teapot could mean a stranger will bring bad news.
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30 min |
If you brew a pot of tea too strong you will make a new friend.
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10 min |
Bubbles that form in the middle of your cup indicate you will receive a lot of money.
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20 min |
Tea leaves scattered in front of the house will ward off evil spirits and protect the family that lives there.
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30 min |
It is very unlucky to stir the tea in the pot – if you do you will certainly quarrel with someone.
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10 min |
If the tea leaves form a cross in the cup, it means there’s trouble ahead
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5 min |
If tea accidentally spills out of the teapot while it is being carried, a secret shall be revealed.
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November 24, 2018, 1:00pm-2:00pm (UTC-8)
Meow Sprints
10 min |
getting tangled up in the thread of fate
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20 min |
scratching up a storm
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10 min |
a flying leap of faith
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November 25, 2018, 7:15pm-11:00pm (UTC-8)
Words That Shakespeare Created
10 min |
embrace, engagement, enrapt, excitement, eyewink
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20 min |
amazement, anchovy, arch-villain, auspicious, addiction
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30 min |
radiance, rawboned, reinforcement, remorseless, restoration
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10 min |
majestic, malignancy, mimic, mockable, mortifying
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20 min |
hint, heartsore, howl, honey-tongued, hornbook
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30 min |
compact, clangor, coppernose, countless, circumstantial
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10 min |
outbreak, overblown, overgrowth, obscene, ode
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10 min |
inducement, informal, investment, invitation, import
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30 min |
fanged, fashionable, fathomless, freezing, footfall
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November 27, 2018, 8:00pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Gemstone Superstitions
10 min |
Carbuncle dispels evil thoughts.
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20 min |
Ruby gives peace of mind, courage, insight, and mental power.
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30 min |
Lapis luzuli strenghtens friendship.
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10 min |
Malachite protects against lightning.
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20 min |
Agate can turn an enemy’s sword against himself.
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November 28, 2018, 10:00pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
Tom Gauld Cartoons
10 min |
many versions of the same thing
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20 min | following trends |
30 min |
being pretentious
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10 min |
an unexpected loss
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20 min |
taking care of something
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30 min | the big reveal |
10 min |
an unexpected antagonist
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5 min |
an embarrassing incident
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December 1, 2018, 12:00am-2:00am (UTC-8)
Idioms
20 min (part 1) |
out of the frying pan and into the fire
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20 min (part 2) | broken heart |
30 min (part 1) |
keep the wolf from the door
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30 min (part 2) |
all that glitters is not gold
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15 min (part 1) | fall from grace |
15 min (part 2) | go with the flow |
30 min (part 1) |
in the nick of time
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30 min (part 2) |
famous last words
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