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!
Comments()

- Giving Life to the Inanimate
- Try and relate a scene through the perspective of an object in the room. You don't need to give the object life, but center the story around the object.
- Comments()
- Bedtime Story
- Let your imagination run wild. Try and tell someone a bedtime story as they lay ready to sleep. Write the story down. If you don't have someone to tell a bedtime story, pretend you do!
- Comments()
- Reasoning Behind Dreams
- Think about a dream you had recently. Try and write a piece in which you find the story behind an aspect of your dreams, or what might have inspired you to dream something that you did.
- Comments()
- Someone You Love Being Put in Jail
- Write a piece wrapped around the concept of someone you love being put in jail. How does this affect you, why would it happen, what you will do as a result.
- Comments()
- 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.
- Comments()