Writing Prompts

Below are a number of writing prompts to help get those creative juices flowing. You can add your responses to the prompts by clicking on them and placing your response in the comments section. You can share your writing prompts by clicking the link below.

Challenge: Use the random writing prompt on the left and incorporate the random literary device shown below the prompt.

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The story falls in love with you

Write a story where the character falls in love with the reader, slowly. The reader doesn't have to necessarily need to reciprocate these feelings.

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Green is the color of -

Use this as the base of your story.

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The Door

Write about one that is locked.

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For Fiction

Sometimes, Little Red Riding Hood doesn't come home. Sometimes, she doesn't meet the Wolf.

Instead, sometimes she goes to a manor where she is welcomed, where the butlers and maids and lords and ladies greet her.

But all isn't well, especially when she discovers that leaving the manor isn't an option until she can find the "keys" out...

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You are a fly on the wall, what do you hear?

Imagine that you are a fly on a wall, you could be anywhere, anyplace in time. What do you hear?

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Write a story that begins with... "If I only knew then what I know now..."

The story could be about regrets, lost opportunities, or just plain humor. You decide! The only thing is the story must start with... "If I only knew then what I know now..."