Writer’s block may seem like a terminal illness, but sometimes the smallest of sparks can “kindle” your craft. Today I bring you a list of ten 1-2 sentence writing prompts that will help build up your white blood cells and give writer’s block a good kick in the pants. Copy them, tweak them, consider them, leave them. It’s up to you!

1. The audience gasps as one.
2. I stir the tea leaves furiously.
3. My old house looks haunted tonight.
4. That night, I slept under the dead tree.
5. The steamboat’s engine shuddered to a halt.
6. My voice rings against the ceiling beams of the church.
7. I don’t remember the impact, but I remember the pain. And then I remember the black.
8. He planted a light kiss on the urn, and hid it away under his bed.
9. “Hail Gary, full of paste,” the little boy prayed fervently into his steepled hands.
10. I squished the spider in the bathtub with my shampoo bottle, and I’m quite proud of myself.