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Weekend Writing Prompts

The two days between Friday's bell and Monday's: what happened, what was hoped for and what went sideways.

Weekend Writing Prompts

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  1. The weekend plan was the beach, and the weather had other ideas. Write the indoor beach day your family invents.Angle: towels on the floor, a fan for the wind. What stands in for the sea?
  2. Write Sunday dinner at your table, or at one you invent, from the first plate to the last crumb.Angle: who sits where? Who is first to ask about tomorrow?
  3. Everything on Saturday's list is done by ten in the morning. Write the unplanned rest of the day.Angle: a whole free afternoon appears. Who decides what goes in it?

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What I did 15

  • Describe the weekend's weather and what it let you do, or stopped you from doing. Angle: one sentence for the sky, the rest for what happened under it.
  • Draw a line down the page, Saturday on the left and Sunday on the right, and write how the two days of your weekend differed. Angle: which day was louder? Which went faster? Which would you repeat?
  • If your weekend were a book, what would it be called? Write the title and the first page. First line: Chapter One, in Which the Dog Gets Out.
  • Part of every weekend is boring. Write about that part of yours and make it worth reading. Angle: a waiting room, a long drive, a line. Notice three things nobody else did.
  • Prove that things still happen on a weekend when you go nowhere at all. Angle: a spider on the ceiling counts. So does a new way to stack the cushions.
  • Somebody made you laugh this weekend. Write the moment so that a reader laughs too. Angle: say where you were first. The funny part needs two sentences of before.
  • Something got made, fixed or built at your home this weekend. Write how. Angle: what you started with, what went wrong halfway and what it looks like now.
  • Tell your weekend backwards, from its last hour to its first. First line: The last thing I did was look for my other shoe.
  • Turn the dullest ten minutes of your weekend into a sports commentary. First line: And she is reaching for the cereal, folks. She is reaching.
  • What was the best thing you ate this weekend, and who was at the table? Angle: say who cooked, who talked the most and what was left on the plate.
  • Where did you go this weekend? Write the trip there, not the place. Angle: the car, the bus or the walk. What was out the window, and who said what?
  • Who did you spend time with this weekend? Write about them and one thing they said. Angle: put their words in quotation marks, exactly as you remember them.
  • Write about one thing you did this weekend for the very first time. First line: Nobody told me it would be that loud.
  • Write about your weekend, starting with the one hour you would live again. Angle: skip the list of everything you did. One hour, told slowly, says more.
  • Write three sentences about your weekend: one true and dull, one true and surprising, one you wish were true. Angle: let a reader guess which is which before you tell.

A perfect Saturday 15

  • A perfect Saturday can cost nothing. Write that day. Angle: no tickets and no shops. What is free where you live?
  • Describe the moment on a Saturday when you notice that the day is going well. Angle: it is usually small. A song comes on, the sun moves, someone says yes.
  • Describe the perfect Saturday breakfast and everyone's job in making it. Angle: who flips, who pours and who only eats? What does the kitchen sound like?
  • Is a perfect Saturday busy or lazy? Pick a side and persuade a friend. Angle: give two reasons and one example from a real Saturday.
  • It is Friday afternoon. List five things you hope the weekend holds, then write about the one that matters most. First line: Number one: nobody says the word errands.
  • On a Saturday morning with nobody telling you what to do, where do you go first? Write that half hour. Angle: slow it down. Follow your own feet from the bed onward.
  • Plan a perfect Saturday in three parts: morning, afternoon and evening. Angle: one part with people, one part alone, one part outdoors. You choose which is which.
  • Write a perfect Saturday as a recipe: the ingredients, the steps and how long to let it rest. First line: Take one late morning. Add pancakes. Do not stir in homework.
  • Write a perfect Saturday for someone else in your family, as a surprise. Angle: what would they pick for breakfast? What would they never have to do?
  • Write a perfect Saturday in winter and a perfect Saturday in summer, four sentences each. Angle: same person, same town. What changes besides the coat?
  • Write a perfect Saturday that happens entirely within one block of your home. Angle: the wall you sit on, the tree, the shop with the bell. No street names needed.
  • Write an invitation to your perfect Saturday: the time, the place, what to wear and what to leave at home. First line: You are invited. Wear shoes you can run in.
  • Write the best Saturday you had when you were much smaller, as well as you can remember it. First line: I was five, and the whole day was a cardboard box.
  • Write the perfect Saturday of a dog, a cat or a goldfish that lives in your home. Angle: what does it wait for all week? Tell the day in its voice.
  • You may invite three people to your perfect Saturday. Write who comes and what each one brings. Angle: one brings food, one brings a game and one brings a plan nobody expected.

Sunday night 15

  • Describe the last good hour of the weekend and how you would spend it. Angle: is it for finishing something or for starting nothing?
  • Describe your street on Sunday evening as the weekend closes down. Angle: which lights come on, which cars come home and what stops?
  • Does your home have a Sunday night habit? Write about it, or invent one you would like. Angle: a show, a soup, a phone call to someone far away.
  • Is Sunday night part of the weekend or part of the week? Argue your side. Angle: decide by what you do, not by what the calendar says.
  • It is Sunday night and something you need for Monday has gone missing. Write the search. Angle: where you look first, who helps and where it turns up.
  • On Sunday night, write a note to yourself to open on Friday. First line: By the time you read this, the spelling test is over.
  • Sunday night is not like any other night. Describe it using only things you can see. Angle: a bag by the door, a clock, the light outside. Let the things do the talking.
  • Sunday night, lights out. Write the three thoughts you have before you fall asleep. Angle: one about the weekend, one about tomorrow and one about nothing at all.
  • Write a letter from Sunday night to Friday afternoon. First line: Dear Friday, you promised there was plenty of time.
  • Write a Sunday night on which the weekend refuses to end. Angle: a funny story. The clock sticks at eight, and at first nobody minds.
  • Write Sunday dinner at your table, or at one you invent, from the first plate to the last crumb. Angle: who sits where? Who is first to ask about tomorrow?
  • Write Sunday night as the family pet sees it, with no idea what a Monday is. Angle: it knows only that everyone has gone quiet and the bags have come out.
  • Write Sunday night at your home: the sounds, the smells and what everyone is doing. Angle: a washing machine, a lunch box, a television in another room.
  • Write the list of what has to be ready by Monday as a Sunday night poem. First line: Two socks that match. A signed slip. A pencil with a point.
  • Your backpack has spent the weekend in a corner. Write what it says on Sunday night. First line: Oh. Now you remember me.

Plans that changed 15

  • A birthday party is moved from Saturday to Sunday. Write the extra day of waiting. Angle: what do you do with a Saturday that was supposed to be the day?
  • A plan changes three times in one weekend. Write the story with each new plan as a new paragraph. First line: Plan A lasted until breakfast.
  • A weekend chore turned into something fun by accident. Write how. First line: It started with raking and ended with a leaf pile taller than my brother.
  • A weekend plan fell through. Write what you did instead. Angle: tell the plan in one sentence and what replaced it in ten.
  • The car will not start on the morning of the weekend's big outing. Write how the day is spent where it is. Angle: someone turns the driveway into the outing. Who, and how?
  • Every plan for the weekend needed a screen, and the screens are all broken or banned. Write Saturday. Angle: what do people do with their hands? Who finds the cards?
  • Everything on Saturday's list is done by ten in the morning. Write the unplanned rest of the day. Angle: a whole free afternoon appears. Who decides what goes in it?
  • The game is rained out on Saturday morning. Write the next hour. First line: The coach's message had one word in capitals.
  • Two people in one home have different plans for the same Saturday. Write how it gets settled. Angle: no shouting. A trade, a coin, a turn each. Is it fair?
  • The weekend plan was the beach, and the weather had other ideas. Write the indoor beach day your family invents. Angle: towels on the floor, a fan for the wind. What stands in for the sea?
  • Write about a weekend outing you did not want to go on and were glad you did. Angle: write the complaining honestly first. Then the minute it turned.
  • Write about a weekend when a visitor came whom nobody expected. Angle: who was it, what got moved off the couch and how long did they stay?
  • You made a weekend plan all by yourself. Write how it went and one thing you would change. Angle: what you packed, what you forgot and what you would tell a friend.
  • You planned to do nothing all weekend, and then a friend knocked. Write what happened. First line: I had my blanket, my snack and my plan, and then the doorbell.
  • You were stuck at home all weekend. Write what you had found to do by Sunday. Angle: list what you tried, in order. The good idea is rarely the first.

How it works

A writing prompt about your weekend usually gets one answer, a list. These ask for one hour, one meal or one change of plan instead, so Monday's page reads as a story and not a schedule.

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For Monday morning and for Friday afternoon

Two groups look back and two do not. What I did and Plans that changed suit a Monday, while the weekend is fresh. A perfect Saturday is for Friday afternoon, before anything has happened. Sunday night sits between them and works on either day.

Writing prompt about weekend plans

Fifteen prompts are about plans that did not hold: a rained-out game, a car that will not start, a party moved by a day. A writer with nothing to report can write about what was supposed to happen.

  • Ban two words for one page: and then. The sentences have to find another way to join up.
  • No big weekend? The prompts about going nowhere and about the boring part were written for that.

Questions and answers

What is a good weekend writing prompt?

One that narrows. Tell your weekend backwards, from its last hour to its first, or turn the dullest ten minutes of it into a sports commentary. A small piece of a weekend is easier to write well than the whole of it.

How do you write about a weekend when nothing happened?

Stay with something small. One prompt asks you to prove that things still happen on a weekend when you go nowhere; another asks for the three thoughts you have on Sunday night before you fall asleep.

Can I use weekend writing prompts on a Friday?

Yes. Most of the fifteen prompts of A perfect Saturday look ahead: a Saturday that costs nothing, one planned as a surprise for someone else in the family, an invitation that says what to wear.

Are these weekend writing prompts for kids?

Yes. They ask about meals, weather, chores, pets and plans. None asks for an address, a full name or where a family will be, and the people in the first lines are made up.

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