Writing Prompt – ABC …

Your challenge today is to write a story of no more than 26 words, each one starting with a different letter of the alphabet … in order!

This one can be quite a laugh and produces some interesting and unexpected results! 

It might help to start by writing the letters of the alphabet across the top of a piece of paper, or screen. Then write a story where the first word begins with A, the second B, the third C, and so on.

Here are a couple of my attempts from earlier today – I’m sure you can do better:

A big cat drooled

Eager for grub

He insisted, "Just kill like me!"

Nice!

One plump queen rat

So tasty!
Unusually velvety whiskers

Xcellent!

Yawn

Zzzzzzz!

 

“AAAAAAAAGGH!” beasts cried

Deafening everyone.

Former guard, Harold

instinctively jumped

“Keep Low Miss! Not one peep!”

“Quiet,” Rachel suggested

tracking unseen vultures with x-rays

“Yikes, Zoos!!”

A bat came diving

Eerily floating

Gnashing her inky jaws

Killing little monsters noiselessly

One pounce quick!

Riding silent under velvet wings

X-raying …

Yelling Za-ha!

I’ll admit X and Z can be tricky (so I often cheat a bit, as above!), but give it a go. See if you can make something that makes sense using each letter once in the right order. 

Nonsense is OK too – just play with the words and see what happens. Like most of these prompts, this is just a spark to help get some words on paper. Once you have something down, you can do what you like with it. For example, you might want to add some extra words in the next draft to help it make sense, or rhyme.

For another challenge try one word for every letter but in any order you like! Will this be easier or harder? Try it and let me know.

Good luck!