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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- Starting Sentences - Realization
- Begin your piece with the phrase: "It was only at that moment that I realized..."
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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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- Close Your Eyes
- Describe a character in one of your pieces using everything but visual description.
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- Big Picture to Smaller Scope
- Write a piece in which you start with a description of the setting and the surroundings and then zoom into an actual character's perspective.
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- Photographs of Life
- Look at a picture from an old photo album. Try and capture as much detail about the event being photographed as possible.
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