Prompt idea by shakespeares-fool:
Write about a late-night call. The character has been asleep for sometime and wakes up to an unexpected phone call from an unexpected source.
Write about someone who used to be the center of attention, but some event happened that changed his/her situation, so now he/she is noticed much less.
Prompt idea by thegirlwithtenbillionnames
Start a piece with “I hate the cold.” It can be spoken, internal, whatever. It doesn’t matter what the piece ends up being about. It just needs to begin with “I hate the cold.”
Write about this:
What could you see while invisible that you would never witness otherwise? It could be something related to your personal life—maybe your parents are talking about you in a way you wouldn’t have expected, your friends are making plans for a surprise birthday party for you—or it could be something completely removed from your daily reality. Maybe you’d sneak into the Metropolitan Museum of Art after hours, or spend a day messing with the mind of your least favorite politician.
-Beth Baruch Joselow, Writing Without the Muse
YEAH WRITE!: Write about two people who knew each other when they were both young,...
Write about two people who knew each other when they were both young, and meet again when they grow up. It doesn’t have to be a boy and a girl, or romantic.
How did they meet when they were young?
Why were they separated?
Is an accident that they meet again? Or do they find each other?
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Write about someone spying on someone else.
Prompt idea by magictheory:
Describe the feeling of a person who lost a child. Do this without mentoning death, child or the person.
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- Película Muda by nezumidou
Write a letter to someone who you have always wanted to tell something to, but never had. Turn the conflict of why you feel you can’t tell them into a story.
Read followers’ works inspired by this prompt:
- Glued lips by CJ
Write about your ideal partner dating the worst person imaginable.
I feel like most of you guys would like this tumblr a lot. It’s so super.
Write from the point of view of the person who’s always in the background of your life, even though you don’t know him/her.
