Dragon Writing Prompts

Here are the characters. Invite one or more into your story and see what happens. Azreal, evil overlord of darkness and imbiber of caffeine ...

Like the Fantasy Novelists Exam and Grand list of overused science fiction clichés and The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Clich...

One writing technique is to juxtapose seemingly unconnected ideas to see what new ideas they spark. While this idea won't write great po...

Twenty real weird words. Use each in a sentence, making up your own meanings. (When you're done, if you want to see the real meanings, c...

At Kate Monk's Onomastikon (Dictionary of Names) she has compiled and organized an extensive resource for naming foreign characters: fi...

This is from the Adopt-a-Plot folder at The National Novel Writing Month boards. #31: Fantasy parody idea: The Chosen One is an 89 year old...

While conflict makes the story run, before conflict your character needs a passionate yearning to be conflicted about. Brainstorm some passi...

Here's an extensive list of character traits. You can pick a couple or three to form the basis of a character. Then create a character w...

Print out the three lists below: profession, trait and meeting. Cut them up and put them in three separate piles. Draw two each from the fir...

Cut up the words in a poem and rearrange them into a new poem. Here's one but feel free to choose any poem! Dragons Anita Wilson Dragons...

The Gallery of Misused Quotes Just for grins :-) If you can't get enough, click on Permanent Collection for the "archives". He...

Come up with ship and boat names for each letter of the alphabet. The ships can be anything: land or water or air or space craft, from dingh...

Here's the beginning. Take it from there. Miori could not remember a time when a spirit had not been with her. Miori's mother said t...

Pictures may be worth 1000 words but apparently stories are only worth 800, give or take. The Worth1000 site sponsors Photoshop, photograph...

First of the month and here's the Top 10 Tabloid Headlines from September 2005 since the City Newstand list is on hiatus. From the City ...

Describe a rainy scene without every using the word rain. I don't particularly enjoy writing environment, and if that's the case for...

Pick one of the following titles as inspiration for a 10-15 minute writing prompt, or generate your own at Random Title Generator by Maygra ...

Randy Ingermanson at The Snowflake Method of Writing a Novel suggests three steps to help get a handle on your novel's (or story's)...

Write a seven-line poem, where each line contains exactly one syllable greater than the previous line. If you need a beginning, you can star...

Come up with names for the following businesses that would work in fantasy or science fiction stories. Exterminator Baker Publisher Weapons ...

From Writer's Digest Free Writing Prompts Character questionaire (below). Though only a few of the questions get beyond the mundane, wha...

Write a 26 sentence story. Start the first sentence with a word beginning with A, the second sentence with a word beginning with B all the w...

Use the following words in order in a story. Feel free to change the form of words (enchant to enchanted or enchants or enchantress). close...

This idea comes from Holly Lisle's website, a successful fantasy writer, who has a some excellent essays on writing. In Quick Plot , she...

Back from a trip to San Francisco! :-) I should be clever enough to come up with a fantasy prompt that has to do with San Francisco but ... ...

First of the month and here's the Top 10 Tabloid Headlines from August 2005 since the City Newstand list is on hiatus. From the City New...

An entire Book in a week ? Well, not when you first start, probably! BIW , is a Yahoo group that "gathers" on the first full week ...

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

Come up with new names for crayons inspired by any one (or more) of the following TV shows. For instance Orion Slave Girl Green and Red Aler...

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 or...

Describe each of the following with something you'd find in a kitchen. For example: "His face looked as though someone had smushed ...