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Stay Creative with Stone Soup

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!

You can find more writing and art activities on our Activities pages.

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Creativity Prompts

Weekly Creativity #185 | Flash Contest #39: Pretend You’re Explaining COVID-19 to People in the Distant Past…
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 ...
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Weekly Creativity #184: Write about an Academic Fail
Write about an academic fail, such as flunking a test, and a character’s recovery from it ...
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Weekly Creativity #183: Write a Story that Begins and Ends in this Place: Fisherman’s Cottage by Harald Sohlberg
Write a short story that begins and ends in this place: Fisherman’s Cottage (1906) by Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935) ...
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Weekly Creativity #182: Take a Photo of Somebody whose Reflection Looks Different from their Body.
Take a photo of somebody whose reflection looks different from their body ...
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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 ...
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Weekly Creativity #180: Take a Photo of Somebody Deep in Concentration.
Take a photo of somebody deep in concentration ...
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Weekly Creativity #179: Write about a Zoom problem (or other tech disaster) and the aftermath.
Write about a Zoom problem (or other tech disaster) and the aftermath ...
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Weekly Creativity #178: Take a photo that shows beauty in an unexpected place.
Take a photo that shows beauty in an unexpected place—for example, flowers growing through a crack in concrete ...
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Weekly Creativity #177: Write a conversation on text messages or social media.
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 ...
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Weekly Creativity #176 | Flash Contest #37: Write about a character who has everything you’ve always wanted, but still isn’t happy.
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 ...
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