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
Take a photo of somebody whose reflection looks different from their body ...
Weekly Creativity #181 | Flash Contest #38: Write a Creation Story for a Fictional World you Create.
Write a creation story for a fictional world you create. This could be the start of a story about this world, or it could be a stand-alone story. To submit to this month's Flash Contest, click here ...
Take a photo of somebody deep in concentration ...
Write about a Zoom problem (or other tech disaster) and the aftermath ...
Take a photo that shows beauty in an unexpected place—for example, flowers growing through a crack in concrete ...
Write a conversation on text messages or social media. This could be about an IRL concern or something distinctly online: the point is to experiment with an online format ...
Write about a character who has everything you've always wanted, but still isn't happy. To submit to this month's Flash Contest, click here ...
Write an awkward conversation. This could be based on real life, or could be awkwardness caused by a fictional situation ...
Take a photo that tells a story. Example: the second photograph, ‘Slipping on a Banana Peel’ here ...
Write a short story about your favorite sport from the perspective of a piece of the equipment (e.g., if you like soccer, take the ball or the net’s point of view; if you like kayaking, put yourself in the position of the canoe or the paddle or the life vest) ...
