Dragon Writing Prompts

Take the sentences you generated last week for Alphabetical dragons and, while trying to capture the same idea, rewrite using only words th...

Pick one of the following. Tell the kids at career day about your job as: - Death - A bounty hunter on Mars - A demon hunter - Mecha pilot -...

This week pay particular attention to how people walk. This is a continuation of ideas for a Writer's notebook that I've been postin...

As you read, pay attention to what makes you keep reading. At the beginning of the book, what words did the writer choose that created a cha...

Do something with the following: heart glade lament pandemonium honor firefly Can you get them all in a story, a paragraph, a sentence?

Write the alphabet down the side of the page and create an alliterative sentence for each letter that has to do with dragons, such as: Wini ...

Use one of the following as a 10-15 minute writing prompt: The protagonist is a musician. The antagonist is vampire chickens. The setting is...

A metaphor paints one concept with the attributes of another. Cut out the following words and shuffle them around until you find some ...

It seems when I capture descriptions of people I always do hair! So this week pay particular attention to hair. Some things beyond the obvio...

This is from the NaNoWriMo Adopt-a-plot where writers post extra plots they won''t be using. Use it as a 10-15 minute writing promp...

Describe a bedroom or other place someone has made their own as a way to reveal who someone is. You can pick from one of the following or ma...

Good writing combines ideas in novel ways. Try using the following combinations in sentences that give insight into why the odd combinations...

Write sentences that contain all 7 of the words on each line. Feel free to change some of the word endings, eg, change crooked to crook or c...

Gender flip a fairy tale (or other story of course). Here are some suggestions that have fairly stereotypical boy and girl roles. If you cli...

This week pay particular attention to people's feet and shoes. At this time of the year those of us north won't see much more than s...

This is a follow up to the writing prompt from January 24: 5 minute stories inspired by Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes by ...

Type a name into Google's Image Search and write character sketches for a handful of the people whose pictures show up. Try typing in y...

Create a name (or names) for each of the following characters: She's a 1017 year old dragon whose claws are worn down from endlessly cou...

Fiction writing is nothing more than telling lies that sound like the truth. This is closer to a word prompt than a full fledged writing pro...

This week, when capturing descriptions of people in your notebook, pay particular attention to people's hands. Some things to get you st...

Even if you never write contemporary fiction, details from real life can bring writing alive. Unless it's integral to the story, in fant...

Print out the following words in a larger font. Cut them out and shuffle them around. My original instructions suggested pairing them random...

You (or your character) find yourself in a world you've never seen before. (It can be a fantasy world, a future world, somewhere on Eart...

From The City Newsstand's (a newsstand/bookstore in Chicago) monthly MAGBAG -- Top 10 Tabloid Headlines . (Mostly from Weekly World News...

Autoantonyms are words that are the opposite of themselves. Try using these pairs of opposites in a sentence. Also try including any other f...

Go to Sloganizer and type in one or two words (it tells you it works better with one or two if you try more than that) and click Sloganize!...

Constrained writing is like confining yourself to a very specific box which can, ironically, be freeing since it forces you out of the famil...

You have (or your character has) just received an envelope or package with this symbol on it. Write about what happens next. You can use...

Write a paragraph (or one really really long sentence) using only words that begin with the letters in the alphabet in order. Such as "...

Try writing an opening line for each of the following words. Set the timer for 10-15 minutes and do as many as the time allows. Don't ag...

The intent of most of these prompts is to get you started. This prompt should lead to an entire story in 5 minutes! Okay, it won't be Wa...

Rules for writing good Many of these "rules" are more appropriate to formal writing rather than fiction but I thought they were fu...

A Tom Swifty is a bit of dialog in which the adverb attached to "said" relates both properly and punningly to what was said. They ...

There are two opposite powerful beings: Darkness Kitten and Crystal Kitten. Each one thinks that they are improving the world with what they...

Grab a book (probably works best with fiction but don't limit yourself). Open it and randomly choose a sentence. Use that sentence as th...

Make a list of the Top 10 things your pet thinks about. (Or any creature that you or anyone made up.) It may help to do it in the form of mo...

There are a lot of random name generators out there! Especially for fantasy names. (BTW, if you click on "Sonic" it takes you to a...

In keeping with this week's inadvertent name theme go to Your Name Here . Type in your name and answer the questions. Click "What I...

Anagrams are formed by rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to form a new word or words. At Anagram type in your name and click ...

Write a the name of a character down the side of a page. (Preferably one you've created but it can be any favorite character. Or you can...

Names can evoke character. Pick one or more of the following names and use them as a writing prompt. Chuck Kweshtunhoshgai Taka Keltopf Elta...