{"id":18324,"date":"2021-10-23T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T23:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2021-10-23T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T23:43:40","slug":"wicked-writing-ideas-for-this-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wicked-writing-ideas-for-this-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked writing ideas for this October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Eight frightful writing prompts to ignite the imagination<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Sarah Austin<\/strong> | Lifestyle Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the stressors of fall term, it can be rewarding to sit down and write something creative. Celebrate this Halloween season by crafting up a chilling short story. Listed below are eight spooky ideas to help ignite the imagination. Take the prompts below and morph them into any horrific desire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Todd Hall \u2014 previously a women&#8217;s dorm \u2014 is rumored to be haunted and feed on the fear of men. Halloween night a group of men walk by the three story brick building. They hear\/see\u2026.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>After talking to someone on \u201cTinder,\u201d they say something disturbing and get blocked. The next morning they are reported missing and there are flyers around the city.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>While sweeping the living room, a dark stain is noticed near the carpet. After lifting to investigate, a hidden door is discovered.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>It&#8217;s the day after Halloween. Nobody shows up to the 8 a.m. lecture besides the professor and one person. Campus is empty\u2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>During an all-nighter at the Hamersly Library, a strange sound is heard. It repeats every five minutes\u2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>While at a pumpkin patch, three close friends decide to enter a corn maze and ignore the closed sign across its entrance. After twenty minutes of wandering, they realize one friend is missing\u2026.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Using \u201cBumble BFF\u201d a friend-date is made. After meeting and having dinner together, they offer a ride home. Instead of home, they pull into\u2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The main character is driving to the coast when they pull off onto a dirt trail, in hopes of a short cut. It seems to work until they see a tree fall on the road behind them, trapping them in. Forward is the only way to go on this unknown and unmarked trail, and the sun sets in two hours.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span>For a chance to be featured in Student Media\u2019s art and literary magazine, \u201cThe Northwest Passage,\u201d submit stories via email to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:northwestpassage@mail.wou.edu\"><span>northwestpassage@mail.wou.edu<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span>Happy haunting, writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:lifestyleeditor@thewesternhowl.com\">lifestyleeditor@thewesternhowl.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight frightful writing prompts to ignite the imagination<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Austin | Lifestyle Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[258,1303,1300,1299,248,1301,1219,154,1229,1147,1146,1302,483,1304,1296,1297,1298],"class_list":["post-18324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-activities","tag-bumble","tag-creative-writing","tag-creative-writing-prompts","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-writing-prompts","tag-library","tag-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle-editor","tag-sarah","tag-sarah-austin","tag-tinder","tag-tips","tag-todd-hall","tag-write","tag-writer","tag-writing-prompts"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}