📝 Weekly Prompt: Time

A new writing prompt exploring altered time. Plus, join us for Writers’ Hour.

Artwork by Emma Winterschladen

Use this prompt as an entry point into our March contest theme: What If.

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📝 WEEKLY PROMPT

What if time behaved differently?

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This prompt asks you to imagine what happens when time changes.

Time might slow down during a difficult conversation. It might skip over many days and linger on one. It might loop. It might pause in a single room. It might move quickly for children and slowly for adults. It might be something a person can lose, save, or give away.

Let altered time show itself through action and detail rather than explanation.

This weekly companion prompt is free and open to everyone. No submission required.

If you’re writing toward the March contest, consider this prompt one entry point into the theme.

Happy writing!
The Writers’ Hour Magazine Team

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