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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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• • When You Slept Outside

  • Write about a time that you slept outside.
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• • 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.
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• • Starting Sentences - Seasonal

  • Begin your piece with the phrase: "That was the spring when..."
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• • Starting Sentences - Every Night

  • Start your piece with the following sentence: Every day the sun comes up and every night it goes down again.
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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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