Our Weekly Creativity prompts challenge you to make a piece of writing (a poem, a journal entry, a story outline, a review) or art, or music, or a spoken word recording, or other piece of creative work. All the prompts we have written are brought together on this page – see below. The first prompt of the month is also a Flash Contest!
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Creativity Prompts
Write a letter to a fictional person that annoys you, such as the person who stepped on your foot. ...
Write a story about somebody who falls through a bowl of tomato soup and into a magical land! To submit to this month’s Flash Contest, click here ...
Create a fictional politician, and write them a “stump speech.” What policies do they support? What is their personality like? ...
Weekly Creativity #188: Write a Story About the Person in Your Life Who Annoys You the Most and Why.
Write a story about the person in your life who annoys you the most and why ...
Create a new idiom or metaphor, and write a conversation containing it ...
Take a photo of somebody going about their daily life ...
Pretend you’re explaining COVID-19 to people in the distant past, and write a scene around this. To submit to this month's Flash Contest, click here ...
Write about an academic fail, such as flunking a test, and a character’s recovery from it ...
Write a short story that begins and ends in this place: Fisherman’s Cottage (1906) by Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935) ...
Take a photo of somebody whose reflection looks different from their body ...
