Dragon Writing Prompts

Wandering about Amazon I ended up reading an excerpt from Nikki Sixx's (of Mötley Crüe) biography and came across the description ...

Use the following homophones in sentences that have a science fiction theme. praying/preying rapped/rapt/wrapped bite/byte hole/whole raise/...

"In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but ...

“Alexander Hamilton ran up those very treads!” said Steve Laise standing in the foyer of Hamilton's home. “It just puts you in such clos...

Petal Pushers, a clever name for a new flower shop. Or is it merely clever? The shop has become very popular very quickly and the other flow...

You've won a week's vacation at an old resort that's been resurrected and refurbished. When you arrive you're greeted by you...

Though the Weekly World News is no more, here's the headlines from the archives of City Newstand in Chicago , for writing prompts or jus...

As you recall, it was a time of great famine in the time of Hansel and Gretel and the step mother persuaded the father to abandon the childr...

Two months ago, the bakery hired a very cute cake master who is definitely not from around here. He or she crafts incredible cakes. Your cha...

A recent discussion on another list was about the "i before e except after c" rule and the words that break it. There are a whole ...

Who has more products imprinted with their image: Kiss or Hello Kitty? I don't think there's a Hello Kitty coffin but there is a Hel...

Colombo Yogurt (owned by General Mills but I'm guessing the brand is local to New England) is running a contest to rename their flavors ...

Here's the set up: Two Chinese lovers are traveling to Europe in a damp meadow. The smell of saffron fills the air; someone with horns a...

One of the following was overheard at a coffee shop. Use it to inspire the real story behind the statement or what the effect was on the one...

Though you can see it from everywhere in the city, people won't speak of it and it's airbrushed from official photos. Set a story th...

Two childhood best friends: KaiKai is outgoing, Eilian reserved. They decide to form a group and bring in two others to round out their tale...

Though the Weekly World News is no more, here's the headlines from the archives of City Newstand in Chicago , for writing prompts or jus...

Probably not the quote he wanted remembered for, but it has obviously been speaking to people for over a millennium and a half. ;-) Use the ...

Cut up the following words, mix them up and choose 8 randomly. Play around with combinations. Pick a few more until you find something you l...

For today's poetry prompt imagine you're a creature or thing. What's it like to be a television or your cat or a cloud or a rec...

Write a series of eight-word lines. Each line will contain one of each part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, ...

To warm up your poetry muscles today, have fun with false comparisons. Use the form As ____ as a ____. and make comparisons that aren't ...

Ew, sounds self reflective. And I promised, no self-reflection! ;-) Still, I promise! You're going to create a "found poem". I...

For this warm up, in each line write an fanciful combination. Keep going for 10-15 minutes. The following examples were all done by children...

I'm always on the look out of books that approach a subject in a simple way without dumbing it down. I found this slim volume titled Ext...

Today take a journey around town and collect words that strike you: street signs, business names, sale signs, political slogans, lost and fo...

Compare opposites for today's poetry warm up. Begin with a comparison that is opposite: a big thing and a little thing "An elephant...

Sometimes having the structure dictated can free up your creativity. Seems odd, yet it's like a coloring book. You don't have to spe...

For today's poetry warm up begin with: If I were ______ I would ______. Then either continue that pattern with different speculations or...

Select one sentence each from a variety of different books or other sources. Add sentences of your own composition. Combine into a poem (o...

For today's poetry warm up, make a statement about something ordinary. Then think of strange, impossible or maybe beautiful things that ...

Write the worst possible poem. If you need inspiration, take someone else's poem or one you've written and start substituting words,...

Warm ups: These are chances to be wild and creative and get the words and ideas flowing. Generate lines based on a template. The point isn...

An acrostic poem uses each letter of a word or phrase to begin each line of a poem. The poem will have something to do with the initial word...

April is National Play with Words Month! Actually it's National Poetry Month but to keep the prompts relatively short and encourage peop...

It's been a bit since I've had time to stumble across an extra that didn't feel like something to throw onto the list just becau...