Creative Writing Prompts
Writing Prompt of the Day
- 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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- What have you been waiting a long time for? Tell me about it.
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- 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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- Think of a book you've read recently or a movie you've seen. Try and find the story within the story. Create the background story for one of the characters or the catalyst for an event that took place in the story.
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- Write about a significant moment in your life that caused you to change who you were, or what you did.
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- 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.
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