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Wordsmiths' Weekly: 500 Writing Prompts

Wordsmiths' Weekly: 500 Writing Prompts

Wordsmiths Weekly: 500 Writing Prompts is different. Every prompt in this collection has been workshop-tested with real writers

2025

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The Grandmother Who Refused to Baby-Proof Her Life

Why I Let My Son Hate Me Rather Than Hide My Scissors

The Grandmother Who Refused to Baby-Proof Her Life

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MuddyUm

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Jun 24

All I Wanted Was a Bowl of Ramen

Fast, gosh darn it

Bowl of delicious ramen noodles with vegetables and egg

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Apr 11

Literary Works Are Only For The Young

Upon receipt of the softest Rorschach

Literary Works Are Only For The Young

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Nov 4, 2025

Good Night Mom

Reflections on a life

Good Night Mom

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Mar 4

I Pitched a Magazine on Wednesday — They Hired Me Thursday

Here’s What Made That Possible

Food to Table in the Hudson Valley New York

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IT Chronicles

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The Nine Hours AT&T Went Dark

How the code written to make a network heal itself taught it to fall down instead

The Nine Hours AT&T Went Dark

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Wordsmiths’ Weekly Writing Prompts

For the week of July 11, 2026

Wordsmiths’ Weekly Writing Prompts

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MuddyUm

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Basic Formatting for Medium Beginners

This is what things look like when you submit to a publication in a hurry

Basic Formatting for Medium Beginners

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IT Chronicles

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Ten Predictions That Did Not Survive Contact With Reality

The industry’s most confident forecasts, and the futures that ignored them entirely

iphone, model T car, light bulb, computer, fax machine images

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Wordsmiths’ Daily

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Wordsmiths’ Daily

Susan Brearley

Susan Brearley

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MSc, EIC, HSDP, 2024 Top NGO, Garden of Neuro Institute Exec Director/Founder. Developmental Editor. https://susan-brearley.com/ and gardenofneuro.com

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