Writing Prompt List
Hi guys! Are you like me, and constantly suffering from writer's block. Well struggle alone no more, here is my list of patented block demolishing prompts to get your teeth stuck into. gathered and recorded over the years, the list can only get bigger.
If you fancy having a go, then just link back to the list and leave a comment linking me to your efforts so I can see, as it's always good to share. Any of the prompts that I have posted up, I will link below, just click on the prompt to see.
If you have any you don't mind adding to the list, then leave a comment below, and I can add it, with a link to your journal/site.
Have fun!
- You return from work to find a 'Dear John' letter on your kitchen table. Oddly enough, it's from one of your favourite pieces of furniture.
- Write a 20 line rhyming poem about something that really annoys you.
- Describe yourself as if you were a recipe.
- Paris Hilton is a robot, explain.
- When you were little, you could swear there was a monster under you're bed. Now he'd back with a message on your birthday.
- Write about an absurd or bizarre race, what is the prize for the winner?
- Re-write a nursery rhyme from one of the other character's point of view.
- Take a character from one of your stories and examine their music play-list.
- You awaken with amnesia in what looks to be an igloo. You have £4 ($8) and a rock in one pocket and a toothbrush in the other. What happens next?
- A scrabble game turns bad.
- Look around the room you are in and write an ode or sonnet to that object.
- Right a letter of resignation to anybody but your boss.
- Your family isn't co-operating with you, go on strike and write your list of demands.
- You are running for president of anything but the country. What are your campaign promises?
- Write a 'Dear John' letter to your writer's block.
- Write a love letter to someone or something you have always felt is under-appreciated.
- Write a story that begins with: 'Every morning a crow sits at my window'.
- Tell a story about something you have lost.
- You wake up one morning to find you are invisible. What do you see and do during the day?
- You find something strange in the middle of the road...
- You have just killed someone. Describe the place where you have hidden the body, without saying anything about the death at all.
- Find a photograph that interests you and write about it from either the subjects point of view, the photographers point of view or the view of someone who finds the photograph somewhere strange.
- Start a story with: "It's not the street I usually go down. But for some reason, that day I turned down a different road."
- You find a key, what is it for?
- Write a story about a person who has an obsession with shoes and claims he can predict a person's future by the shoes they wear.
- Write a story about an animal who is either learning to read and write, or who leaves messages for people to read.
- Write a story with "Domestic Breakfast Scene" as your title.
- Write a story about an unusual pet.
- You find a letter behind a mirror, what does it say?
- Write a story about a character with terrible memory.
- Start a story with: "Today my wife disappeared".
- Write a story about a fortune teller who lives in a run-down house.
- Start a short story with the line; 'Now is the winter of our discontent...'
- What are the three best films you have ever seen, why?
- What has technology done to us?
- What was the most important thing you ever learned?
- Do you think alcohol should be legal?
- Do you think cannabis should be legal?
- What is the most harmful thing to society at the moment?
- What would you went on your gravestone?
- What makes you angry?
- What makes you happy?
- What would changes would you make if you were the leader of a successful revolution?
- What did you do on the last snowy day you experienced?