Dragon Writing Prompts

It's been a while since I posted a Writer's notebook idea ... Carry a small notebook around with you this week and write down 10 t...

Create hot and humid phrases or sentences for each letter of the alphabet.

Use one or several of the following and set the timer for 10-15 minutes as a writing prompt: Mothers are often mistaken for robots. Heavywe...

by Emily Hanlon Don’t think. Creating a story or book has little to do with the intellect or language when we first begin. Our best ideas wi...

Write a story backwards. Begin with the conclusion and work back to how it all began. From an exercise at Writing Exercises

Write about or define the first word using the 6 words that follow it: crusty -- eyeball, attitude, ooze, stuffy, luxury, crunched private -...

Jeffrey A. Carver has created Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy . an entire writing course on line for free :-) He says the course "...

Create new month names. You'll probably have time to create several sets! ===== More ===== Our month names are curiosities, a mixture of...

Try to get as many of these as you can into a story. Tripping over hedgehogs Rise up with fists Chalice of malice Fingernails on a chalkboa...

The Sage is a collection of random questions and answers intended to spark your imagination as your mind naturally tries to find the connec...

If you've read much manga, you'll have noticed in the little biographies of manga-ka (manga creators) and characters references to a...

Your character has some or all of the following at his or her disposal. What are they? (They can each be different: weapons, people, spells,...

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

This is from the NaNoWriMo Adopt-a-plot folder where writers post extra plots they won't be using. #34: "There's this girl who...

Click for a larger image. What is this? What's going to happen? Where is it? Why are you here? Go from there.

Assume there is real magic behind superstitions. Pick a superstition and tell why it works. Here's a selection if you need one. (There w...

Here's a link to Patricia Wrede's Worldbuilder questions to ask when creating a fantasy world. It looks like an awesome set of ques...

Use the following words as a writing prompt ... in the order given! A bit more of a challenge but easier to keep track of which words you...

Describe an event from 3 different points of view. You can use one of the following ideas if you wish. Feel free to play around with them. M...

If you need some inspiration on creating mysterious places, Mysterious Britain has a nice collection. The main collection is at Featured Sit...

Write a surreal "shopping list." Have on your list one of the first thing, two of he second thing, three of the third ... If you...

Pick one of the following as a 10-15 minute writing prompt. Try to get all 4 words into your story. Setting: in a lighthouse Starting phrase...

A writer and artist (William Burroughs and Brion Gysin) did some experimenting with cutting up text and others with cutting up pictures to ...

Set a timer for 10-15 minutes. You're a weary demon reporter for the Hellbent Ledger in Hell. Interview a new angel in Heaven.

As the days get longer, it seems that available time shrinks ;-) So I'll be slowing down a bit over the summer and just send out one pro...

This is from David Parlett's Suspensions . One player takes a short sentence from a novel, less than 10 words, and writes it down. To th...

Make a list of words that have the same consonants *sounds* as your first name. (Or name of a pet, your last name ...) Joyce is a good examp...

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

"His name is Morcant Falcon. He gives me nightmares ..." Take it from there.

Try to get all the words on each line into a single sentence: cat empathic witness theater narrow excuse print revenge support goblin ethere...

This is from the NaNoWriMo Adopt-a-plot folder where writers post extra plots they won''t be using. #4: Three kids are sucked into ...

Type a name or word or phrase into Googlism , click "Who" or "What" or "Where" or "When" then click ...

Pick one of the following and write an ad for it. It might be a city, a vacation resort, a corporation to invest in, a convention ... It mig...

Write the alphabet down the side of the page. For each letter write a descriptive word that applies to your pet. (Orignally I suggested favo...

Just like the kind for your refrigerator: Online Magnetic Poetry . There are several kits to choose from: Artist, Genius, Poet, Office, Roma...

Create male and female names for superheroes with the following quirks: turns into jelly at the full moon shoots lightning from eyes when an...

Write about either yourself or a character from your/their pet's point of view.

A competition in New York Magazine asked people to change good titles into bad titles. Some examples: A Walk on the Wild Side -- A Hike thro...