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This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts – July 16, 2026
Here are this week’s prompts:
- Write a post inspired by the word window.
- Write a post in exactly thirteen (13) lines.
- List your five silliest fears when you were in elementary school.
- Do you pray? Why or why not?
- Start each line of a post with “have you ever…”
- Describe a time when you saved BIG.
The Writer’s Workshop is open to anyone and everyone. Here’s how you can join us:
- I will publish the weekly prompts on Tuesday at noon Eastern Time.
- Choose one of the prompts (or as many as you want) and write a post on your blog that addresses that prompt.
- When you have published your post, leave a comment on this post with the URL of the post on your blog. If you’re a WordPress user, you may use a pingback to do this (just be sure it’s there when you do so). You have until noon (Eastern Time) next Tuesday to post for this week.
- Try to comment on as many of the other participants’ posts as possible.
If you’d like to join in, be our guest!
Top Ten Tuesday: KPLT (1490 AM, Paris TX), 7/22/62
Texas was the 27th state admitted to the United States on Christmas Day 1845. This trip through the country, they’ll be represented by KPLT in Paris, Texas. These days, KPLT spends its days doing classic country music, which isn’t that much different to what they were doing back in their early days. Here’s their Top Ten from July 22, 1962.
- Beaking Up Is Hard To Do – Neil Sedaka
- The Stripper – David Rose & His Orchestra
- speedy Gonzalez – Pat Boone
- The Wah Watusi – The Orlons
- Cindy’s Birthday – Johnny Crawford
- Dancin’ Party – Chubby Checker
- Gravy For My Mashed Potatoes – Dee Dee Sharp
- Wolverton Mountain – Claude King
- Roses Are Read (My Love) – Bobby Vinton
- Ahab The Arab – Ray Stevens
That’s Top Ten Tuesday for July 14, 2026.
Song of the Day: Henry “Rubberlegs” Wiliams And Band, “Susie Bee Blues”
MMMM: One-Hit Wonders, 1966
Today’s Song of the Day was “Time Won’t Let Me,” a one-hit wonder from 1966. I had to come up with a playlist for today, and decided that a good choice would be other 1966 one-hit wonders. Perplexity gave me a list, from which I selected ten. And here they are…
- The Cbeater – Bob Kuban and The In-Men
- Elusive Butterfly – Bob Lind
- Dirty Water – The Standells
- I’m Your Puppet – Janes & Bobby Purify
- Winchester Cathedral – The New Vaudeville Band
- Little Girl – Syndicate of Sound
- The Pied Piper – Crispian St. Peter
- Open The Door To Your Heart – Darrell Banks
- Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love) – Swingin’ Medallions
- Cool Jerk – The Capitols
That’s Monday’s Music Moves Me for July 13, 2026.
Monday’s Music Moves Me is sponsored by Marie, Cathy, Alana, and Stacy, so be sure and visit them, where you can also find the Linky for the other participants.
