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
Use the Atlas of Emotions to choose an emotion you've never heard of, and write a story/poem in which your protagonist feels and describes that emotion ...
Draw/paint/etc. a landscape from your dream ...
Write a backstory for a supporting character from a novel you've read. ...
Write a story where a character confronts their worst fear ...
Write a scary story/poem ...
Take one line from your favorite book/poem/song and use it to inspire a story ...
Write a recipe, and try it out! ...
Flip to a random page in the dictionary, pick a word, and start the first line of your story/poem with that word ...
Write the same short story in at least two genres ...
Do an art project on your sidewalk using chalk ...
