Writing Prompts of the Week – 8

Create stories, articles, or poems from the following prompts: 1. What are the things that make you very happy? 2. You are a witness to a murder. What do you do? 3. Will you raise your child the way you were brought up by your parents? Why or why not? 4. If you were to [...]

Writing Prompts of the Week – 7

Write stories, articles, or poems using the following prompts: 1. Your writing goals for the year 2010. 2. You wake up one morning with the unique power to change one thing in this world. What would you change and why? 3. Something revolving around the words – dirty clothes, spaghetti, handkerchief, plastic bottle, red ribbon. [...]

Writing Prompts of the Week – 6

Create stories, articles, or poems from the following prompts: 1. If you could invent something, what would it be? 2. You open an old chest in the attic and come across a strange looking object. What do you do? 3. Write a story revolving around these words – shell, rubber, wire, paper, and funny. 4. [...]

Writing Prompts of the Week

Use these writing prompts to create articles, stories, or poems.   1. Write about what happens when you bump into a friend after 10 years. 2.  Write something woven around the words – social worker, nursing home, sick, charity. 3. You have a chance to travel to any country in the world. Which country would [...]

What is a Writing Prompt

What is a writing prompt? This is a question I have often been asked. No, I don’t think it’s surprising that some people don’t know. After all, not everyone knows everything, and more than that, not everyone is a writer. So, how would you explain a “writing prompt”? Well, we all go through bouts of [...]