June 2012 NaHaiWriMo Writing Prompts
Selected by Alison Williams
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Where
you are: birds or animals.
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What’s
wrong? All things off-key, askew, false, unsatisfactory, or wrong in any way.
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What’s
not wrong? Let’s look on the positive
side today.
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Older women.
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The moon.
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Listen carefully. Today’s prompt is quiet sounds.
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Where you are: plants, flowers, trees or any growing things.
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Taste, but not of food or drink.
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The space between.
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Men, especially older men.
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Touch, especially textures.
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Rain.
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Unpleasant or scary things.
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Generate your own personal prompt today by going to http://creativitygames.net/random-word-generator
and click the 1 button to get your word.
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Local buildings or statues or other manmade things.
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The human body or parts of it. Optional extra stretch: See if you can
make your haiku work as a four-liner.
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A season on another planet.
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Signs.
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The dark side.
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Light. Optional extra: Use exaggeration or hyperbole.
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Smells, aromas, odours, scents.
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Look up for inspiration.
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Underwear.
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Something that isn’t there. The absence of something.
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Home.
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Lines.
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Something small, a detail.
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A joke or joking.
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White.
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Free choice of local theme.
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