Dragon Writing Prompts

Create a Character: You're given several boxes to fill in and it adds some background and personality (determined by Enneagram Personal...

Your character has an unusual fear. Choose one of the following and writing about him, her or it for 10-15 minutes. You could place him in ...

Play around with character. Create a charming villain, one that is most cunning, intelligent and handsome, but evil nonetheless. Whether he ...

"All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie." -- Anu Garg Well I hope the lived/devil anagrams are l...

Turn the following common proverbs into obfuscated polysyllabic philosophies. Here's a couple of examples: Who sums the yet unfractured ...

At Word Imperfect everyday the author chooses an obscure word and posts the definition then invites people to make up defintions. There are...

Use one of the following as inspiration for a children's picture book. Veggie-Eating Mother has Green Baby Giant Pigeon Terrorizes New Y...

What CAN they do? This is a random fantasy idea generator. As the author suggests, it's mean as a spark for writing. Try to use as many ...

When your novel gets to the saggy middle, that's the time to drop in some random colorful characters! This was posted by Fenix on the Na...

An ad for a new book says: "What if you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life, would you do it?" What if? W...

Describe a cat fight (with another cat, with its prey, with an attacker) in snake terms. Try to work in as many terms you'd use to descr...

At Scholastic is a Myth brainstorming machine . (If you're on dialup it may take a while to load. Unfortunately it doesn't look like...

Top Ten Tabloid Headlines from JUNE 2005  SEEING EYE SQUIRRELS FOR DOGS! — WWN RACE OF SNOWMEN FOUND — WWN CIRCUS ELEPHANT GIVES BIRTH TO HU...

What is the smell of: the moon sadness a child's joy in watching a soap bubble grief cowardice snow velcro a nasty letter silver mystery...

Choose one or more of the following characters then use the phrases below in a story about them. The characters ed the wondering langmuir be...

The Genuine Haiku Generator Genuine? It's not about nature. Haiku? It does have the structure of a surprising observation at the end. Ge...

You have been serving His Great Vileness for 3 years as canon fodder, throwing yourself in front of all manner of deadly attacks directed at...

One person's trash, as they say, is another's treasure. To some people a house full of stuff is a mess but to another it's loade...

For those who brought you National Novel Writing Month, now comes Script Frenzy ! 30 days to a finished script. If you know nothing about w...

Use the following nouns as verbs in sentences. To up the challenge, use them all in the same paragraph. ninja purple paradise bubble soul ca...

A bit from one of my NaNoWriMo projects. Here's the beginning: "You need to do something about this!" Oniss Larae demanded whe...

Write your memoir in 6 words and submit it to Smith magazine for potential inclusion in a book to be published in 2008 by HarperCollins. Le...

The bit of code at Visual Poetry translates sentences into visual images. It searches for each word and returns an image from Google. Type ...

Choose one of the following movie title and write the opening scene in screenplay format: The Astro-Zombies The Devil Rides Out Attack of th...

Sounds like some wizard or wise man. The Enneagram of Personality is a theory that our personalities derive from how "nine principal e...

This is from an exercise in Unjournaling. Write 10 sentences that say no without using the word "no". Or, come up with a scenario ...

Kat's favorite writer, Janet Evanovich , author of the Stephanie Plum series of mystery/adventure novels, is running a contest (through ...

From the City Newstand in Chicago , for writing prompts or just for fun :-) Top Ten Tabloid Headlines from MAY 2005 (since the City Newstand...

Enough poetry for a bit! Write a eulogy that the bad guy has written for the good guy. Death can be the bad guy's doing or old age or a...

Like your goth tongue in cheek? Check out Dead Lounge where resides the Goth-O-Matic Poetry Generator From the website: Interested in birth...

As a counterpart to the blessing poem from the Oh, Most Revered One prompt, call down the ire of the gods and goddesses or Ruler of Hell on...

For the poetry warm up today, use the template: "The third eye can see ..." The third eye can see what regular eyes can't or i...

The Automatic Poetry Generator. Something to play with :-) Though this generates entire "poems" use it as a starting point. For e...

For today's poetry warm up play with onomatopoetic sounds. Begin with a sound and then follow with words that sound like it (but don...