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 about a character who you don’t personally like. They could be annoying, rude, or downright evil! ...
Write about a common metaphor, and what it would be like if it were both literally and figuratively true. For example, you might use the expression “let the cat out of the bag,” and write about a situation in which someone might let the cat out of the bag (tell ...
Write a story designed to evoke an emotion. Maybe it’s a feel-good story, or a calming one ...
Take a character from one of your favorite books, TV shows or movies, and pretend that they have a social media account. Write a few posts that they might share. Would they let their followers know what is going on in their lives? Or be secretive and vague in their ...
Write a short story that begins and ends with the same sentence ...
Imagine that you are a scientist who discovers a new animal species or plant. Draw or paint a picture that details your discovery. Is it related to any known species, or is it something totally new? If you want to, you can even give it a name ...
Pick a historical figure and write a fictional story around a moment in their life. It can be a decisive moment of history, or it can be something mundane ...
Write a science fiction story about a character who lives one hundred years in the future ...
Write a poem in which each stanza sums up a month of this year ...
Write a detailed description or character sketch of a family member or someone you know. How would you describe them to someone who didn’t know them? What details are important to include to properly capture them in writing? ...
