This is the first month that I will post prompts. Each month I will post a prompt for each day of that month.

Here are some prompts for October. I hope that they get your minds working. Feel free to email your stories to me at slb725writer@aol.com. I will choose up to three stories to post to A Journey into Writing, credited to the author.

Subject line should read: October 2007 Writing Prompt Submission

GUIDELINES: Send your name, state, website (writing) if you have one, and the name of the prompt that you use. Please send only 1 story per email. Send *final* drafts only.

Feel free to use as many prompts as you like.

DEADLINE: November 1, 2007

Here goes:

1. What happens in your home when everyone is asleep.

2. Something gruesome/freaky happens when a group of college students go trick-or-treating.

3. Use these words in a story: death, fear, witchyre, Fred.

4. A witch who lives in the deep dark woods…

5. Spin a new tale of the vampyre.

6. Halloween

7. All Hallows’ Eve

8. Samhain

9. Evil is afoot.

10. The tale of the werewolf.

11. An evil fairy. A bad gnome. A scary elf.

12. The old ______ house.

13. Setting: Salem Massachusetts.

14. Setting: a clearing in the woods.

15. The monster down the way.

16. What is hiding under your bed?

17. What is hiding in your bed?

18. The cemetery on Lansing Lane.

19. Write a story about a haunted date.

20. Who dares to enter the…

21. The dead have risen!

22. The tale of the evil kitten.

23. No candy on Halloween?

24. The haunted tree?

25. What really happens to those who never come out of the haunted house?

26. The witch and the goblin.

27. Your first line: The moon was shining full and bright.

28. Your last line: And that is the story of Elsie Meyer.

29. Who are the orbs surround your home?

30. Write your own Halloween song! (just remember to tell us what tune to sing it to)

31. Write an All Hallows’ Eve poem.

Scary Writing!

Shannon Buck ~ Author