Halloween Writing Prompts for Writing Groups and Classrooms October 15, 2023

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This month's writing prompts are Halloween-based, as opposed to other October writing prompts on this blog. There are six writing prompts with text to help inspire writers, and eight picture-only writing prompt pages to print. There is one coloring page to be used as needed, for fast finishers or children "dragged along" to a writing group. The entire PDF is fifteen pages in length. Teachers or writing group leaders may select which pages they may want to use as fits their particular group's needs. 

The text prompts are as follows:

Mist wreathed the moon in an eerie shroud . . . 

The pumpkins gleamed with frost under the rising sun. 

As night fell, a barred owl began calling with its signature call, "Who cooks for you?"

Bats danced under the full moon. 

The neighbors began decorating for their annual haunted house.

The Halloween inflatables were so ridiculous it wasn't clear it they were funny or tacky. 

Of course, the coloring page included on every PDF. 

Thank you for reading, 

Carolyn Wilhelm

You might also like our other writing prompts which are posted on the 15th of most months. 

The prompts are on Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Sharing with Writers and Readers Blog 

Adding Color Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Camping Writing Prompts  post and free instant download

Comedy Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Cyber Crime Writing Prompts post and free instant download

December Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Fantasy Writing Prompts post and free instant download

February Days Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Halloween and October Writing Prompts  post and free instant download

Historical Fiction Writing Prompts  post and free instant download

January Any Year Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Magical and Magical Realism Writing Prompts post and free instant download

March Days Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Motherhood and May Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Music Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Mystery and Thriller Writing Prompts post and free instant download

November and Fall Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Pandemic People Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Road Trip Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Royals, Monarchs, Kings, and Queens Prompts post and free instant download

Social Media Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Summer Evenings Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Traveling Abroad Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Twitter Writing Prompts  post and free instant download

Western Romance Picture Only Writing Prompts post and free instant download

Women Theme Writing Prompts post and free instant download

What if? Writing Prompts post and free instant download

MORE ABOUT THE BLOGGER Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the multi award-winning author of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is also a marketing consultant, editor, and author of the multi award-winning #HowToDoItFrugally Series (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTXQL27T/ ) of books for writers including "The Frugal Book Promoter" (https://bit.ly/FrugalBookPromoIII), and "The Frugal Editor" both offered in their third editions by Modern History Press. Others in that series are "How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically," and two booklets, both in their second editions also from Modern History Press. The booklets, "Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers" (https://bit.ly/LastMinuteEditsII) and "Great First Impression Book Proposals" (https://bit.ly/BookProposalsII) are career boosters in mini doses and both make ideal thank you gifts for authors. The one on writing book proposals is also available as an Audio Book. "The Frugal Editor "(https://tinyurl.com/TheFrugalEditor), was recently released in its third edition. It is the winningest book in this series for writers. Carolyn also has three frugal books for retailers including one she encourages authors to read because it helps them understand what is needed to convince retailers to host their workshops, presentations, and signings. It is "A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques" (https://bit.ly/RetailersGuide). In addition to this blog, Carolyn helps writers extend the exposure of their favorite reviews at https://TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. She also blogs all things editing--grammar, formatting and more--at "The Frugal, Smart, and Tuned-In Editor" (https://TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com). Learn more and follow it to get news on her new releases directly from Amazon at https://bit.ly/CarolynsAmznProfile.

Improve a Chatbot A1 Generated Content Response

Improve a Chatbot A1-generated content response for this month's writing prompt.

Currently, we are hearing so much about chatbots and A1-generated content. It is software to generate human-like written paragraphs, essays, reports, and even books. Oh, my. It sounds mysterious and scary at the same time. There is debate about this capability, but it isn't going away. Don't know what it is? You have probably used these online already. We use chatbots as they are the little "chats" in the corner that answer questions. No wonder they don't know very many answers and make us mad; they are not human! Oh, those, you remember. But can they write a whole book? They have done so. There is a surge of e-books written by chatbots on Amazon. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence in areas such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. 

Schools are concerned students will use chatbots for class assignments. One teacher took the bull by the horns and assigned students to use chatbots. They were to generate three responses to a writing prompt. The assignment was to edit and rewrite all three into a final polished piece. He wanted students to realize the generated content could be rewritten and that the content is not necessarily perfect or final draft material. Teachers have many other creative ideas for using chatbots in the classroom. 

Since I write prompts each month, I thought writing groups and adults could do something similar by entering information into one of these bots and generating responses. It could be very interesting. I had no reason to try these or even look at them, but thought I might like to see what would happen. I tried only two, one from Smodin, and one from ChatBot. Google search chatbot and find many different possibilities. Or maybe you have one or more apps already and want to try them out. 

Note: When you want to try chatbots, remember they will start emailing as people have to sign up to use even the free versions. I put such emails in my junk folder, so I don't have to see them unless I want. 

On A1 Chatbot I selected which style I wanted. Then, I pickled which language, title or keywords, entered a little text, a little content, and the decided upon the tone. I tried generating content about March weather. Clare O'Beara says that in Ireland March is called "Many Weathers" so it must be similar to our lion or lamb references to weather in the US. And, yes, the generator wrote like a human. Clicking regenerate gave another version, and so on. 

I also tried ChatBot. I could have selected many others, as well. I could have kept clicking regenerate for additional versions. This time I asked the bot how it felt about spring. In the answer, the bot mentioned it does not have feelings. Google fired an engineer who said a certain chatbot had feelings. 

When you read answers, you might see why a person would say so. Weird. 

I also have a printable PDF with a few prompts for those who want to print and write in "real life." 

Click on this link for your free instant download PDF

Thank you for reading, Carolyn Wilhelm @jamsandbooks.org

You might also like this video of teachers discussing the use and dangers of chatbots in educational settings. 

MORE ABOUT THE BLOGGER Howard-Johnson is the multi award-winning author of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is also a marketing consultant, editor, and author of the multi award-winning #HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers including the multi award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter (https://bit.ly/FrugalBookPromoIII), now offered in its third edition by Modern History Press. She is also the author of" How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically." She has two booklets in the #HowToDoItFrugally Series, both in their second editions from Modern History Press. "Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers" (https://bit.ly/LastMinuteEditsII) and "The Great First Impression Book Proposal" (https://bit.ly/BookProposalsII) are career boosters in mini doses and both make ideal thank you gifts for authors. The one on writing book proposals is also available as an Audio Book. "The Frugal Editor" (https://bit.ly/FrugalEditor), recently released in its third edition, is the winningest book in the series. Carolyn also has three frugal books for retailers including one she encourages authors to read because it help them understand what is needed to convince retailers to host their workshops, presentations, and signings. It is "A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques" (https://bit.ly/RetailersGuide). In addition to this blog, Carolyn helps writers extend the exposure of their favorite reviews at https://TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. She also blogs all things editing--grammar, formatting and more--at The Frugal, Smart, and Tuned-In Editor (https://TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com). Learn more and follow for news on her new releases direct from Amazon at https://bit.ly/CarolynsAmznProfile.