The weather is heating up, and hopefully so are your manuscripts! In case you need to add a little summer sizzle to your writing, here’s ten writing prompts.

1. Embers blew across the field with the summer breeze.
2. The mix of warm air and fresh flowers made an intoxicating fragrance.
3. The thermometer finally died at 110.
4. Flowers wilted under the relentless sun.
5. Heat shimmered off the concrete slabs of the abandoned construction.
6. The waves washed any trace of her footprints away.
7. The new summer dress gave her more confidence than she needed.
8. Children laughing reminded him of warmer days.
9. A summer of drinking and merrymaking came to an abrupt end.
10. By July he’d spent so much time sweating he felt like a dropped ice cream cone.

Bonus exercise: Write ten connected scenes, using each of the above writing prompts as the last line instead of the first sentence.