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
What song have you had on repeat lately? Write a poem that incorporates the song ...
Brew some tea or coffee and splatter it on a piece of paper. Draw something using the stains as your guide ...
Write about what would happen to novel or fairytale characters if they existed in real life. Think about practical conventions that might surprise them. For example, Prince Charming (Sleeping Beauty) might balk at getting a job; Jo March (Little Women) isn’t an obvious candidate for make-up vlogger ...
Rewrite an exciting episode from a favorite novel as a Ballad at least 30 lines long ...
Write a story backwards. In other words, start with the conclusion, then explain what happened that led up to the action or event ...
It’s the last day of July! Write a sonnet (a 14-line poem) in celebration of Summer. For some fun hints about the form of a “sonnet”, read this one by Billy Collins ...
Write about your future. What will a typical day be like for your adult self? Will you still live near where you live now? Will you have the same friends? What will your family be like? What will you be doing? ...
What do you think are the worst poems ever written? They could be by other poets, adults or children, or your own. Study them, then write a bad poem ...
One morning, you wake up, and the only thing in the world that is the same is you. What has changed, and how? Write a one-page story about happens that day ...
Choose one of these opening lines from classic novels, and use it as the starting point for your own short story. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." Rebecca by Daphne Du ...
