Creative Writing Prompts

Writing Prompt of the Day

The Six Word Memoir
Hemingway was supposedly challenged to tell his life story in six words. He came up with "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." Write your own six word memoirs!
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- Build a Timeline
- Look back on your life and try and build a timeline of all of the events that happened in your life. The timeline can be based around years or important events that happened. Flesh out the events between each of these key moments. You've now catalogued a ton of potential stories.
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- Close Your Eyes
- Describe a character in one of your pieces using everything but visual description.
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- Exaggerate an Illness
- Have you ever heard someone tell you how sick they were on just go on and on, clearly overhyping everything they're saying? Try it yourself. Write a piece about a sickly character and embellish the illness as much as possible.
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- Awake at Night
- What do you think about when you lay awake at night? What wakes you up in the middle of the night?
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- One Page or Less
- Write a story on one piece of paper. Forcing yourself to a smaller scope enables you to not only finish the story, but focus on a shorter narrative.
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