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60 Prompts
60 Prompts
I had stopped using writing prompts after that 4th grade English class. This
changed once I began writing thousands of words per day. Some days, I just
didn’t know what to write about. Other days, I already had a topic in hand, but
I couldn’t find the words. Writing prompts have been a great tool to help me
defeat writer’s block and swiftly put pen to paper.
A writing prompt is a topic around which you start writing ideas. You’re free to
stick to the subject or let your mind wander.
1. Put pen to paper. Instead of thinking about what to write about, writing
prompts give you a topic to start writing about immediately.
2. Practice makes perfect. Writing prompts help you build your writing
“muscles”. This habit will help make it easier for you to start writing and will
teach you to write longer.
3. Increase your creativity. Writing prompts can make you see the world in a
new light, or a way you’ve never imagined.
Maybe you want to buckle down and finish that novel. Or perhaps you needed
to complete that blog post yesterday. Regardless of your circumstance,
prompts can be your ticket out of uncreative purgatory and back to the writing
promised land
2. The last words of your novel are, “As night became day, he started to
understand the truth.” Now, go write the rest.
26. If you could travel back in time, where would you go?
27. You have a billion dollars in your bank account. How did you make it?
29. If you could do anything for work, what would you do?
31. You’re in a foreign country and don’t speak the native language.
37. Go to Twitter or Facebook and write about the first post you see.
46. You knock louder and louder on the door, but nobody answers.
49. She had the perfect party planned, only to have it ruined by her ex.
50. She said her final words and left, there’s no turning back now.
52. You have the power to stop time, what do you do?
57. This needs to be cleaned, the police will be here any minute.