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 the first time you tried a food, whether you liked it or didn’t like it. What did it smell like? What did you expect it to taste like? Did it remind you of anything? Did the texture surprise you? ...
Pick a favorite fictional character of yours and place them in a very precarious situation, such as being trapped inside of an elevator. Write about how they would react and what problem-solving strategies would they employ, or how they don’t do anything ...
Flip through a book or magazine and pick five to ten words that interest you, and write a piece using those words ...
Write about a character waiting for something, but don’t reveal what they’re waiting for until the end ...
Take a panorama image with your phone/ tablet/ other device with this feature, but move the camera quickly around the room or area to create a collage of your surroundings ...
Jot down a list of all your traits. Write a fantasy story revolving around a character that shares some, if not all of these same traits and see what they do. How do they handle the situation? Then, add in a villain of the story with complete opposite traits. Will ...
Create an art piece using any number of colors that don’t usually work together ...
Write about what may happen if predator and prey switched places (i.e. if a mouse switched places with a bird, or if a fly switched places with a frog). How would the food chain work? How would the prey feel about becoming a predator? How would the predator feel about ...
Create a poem with an eerie or creepy tone. You can make the poem as nonsensical or as relatable as possible, but retain the sense of being unsettled throughout. This is a Monday prompt, so if you are writing your response in the week it was first published, you can ...
Imagine your favorite food as a protagonist in a story. Describe their personality and defining features – are they quiet? Intelligent? Short? Grumpy? The choice is up to you. What do they like to do? Who are their friends? Write “A day in the life” story about them ...
