Dragon Writing Prompts

Use one of the following as a last line in a writing piece (or your NaNo). “It’s a strange world, isn’t it?” "...and like that, he was ...

Start a story with the first word in the first sentence, second word in the second sentence and so on. Don't worry about bad boy spadoch...

Worldbreaker is a collaborative game for creating worlds. There is one rule: Players take turns making simple statements about what the set...

You know those trees with the handprint leaves you write something to be thankful for on? Your favorite Evil Dude (E.D.) has been inspired t...

(Click picture for a large image) Write a news report for this. Newspaper. TV. Internet news. Tabloid. Just because it's a real photo, d...

Seventh Sanctum has a wealth of information for writers and oodles of generators of all sorts. Need a less cliche vampire character? A swor...

A plot ninja is a person, place, thing, idea that you drop into your plot when you get stuck. Started on the NaNoWriMo forums from the sugge...

Here's something Kat stumbled across and has anxiously been waiting for the owners to do something with the website. (She just loves any...

Need some plotting help for your NaNo or other project? Teresa Nielsen Hayden, editor at Tor Books, gave a lecture on "Stupid Plotting ...

Cut up the following words and put them in a bowl. For NaNo writers, when you get stuck, pull out one of the words and use that in the next ...

Interview a character or characters from your NaNo novel or from a stalled piece with characters you liked. It can be a group interview with...

Some things we've learned from past NaNos: From me: It's okay to leave scenes unfinished. The linear one-thing-at-a-time part of me...

NaNoWriMo starts today! Since your novel can go anywhere and doesn't necessarily need to make sense at this point, use the following ph...

For each set of 7 words, generate a sentence. To make it extra challenging, use them in order. (Feel free to change tenses and word forms.) ...

National Novel Writing Month begins November 1! (Next Thursday.) If you haven't heard about NaNoWriMo before, all across the world, peo...

Google Trends tracks searches that have shown sudden surges in popularity and updates the lists throughout the day. Here's your charact...

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 writing pro...

Here's a fun test. Is the dancer rotating right (clockwise) or left (counterclockwise)? Left vs Right Brain: Test for creativity or lo...

Use as many of the phrases as you can in a 10-15 minute writing piece. (Order isn't important.) I'm always right hot metal we start ...

Go to your refrigerator and write down 10 random or oddest items in there. Write the introductory paragraphs of a character who only has tho...

First lines of course! They come first for readers, though not necessarily for writers. It might even be the last line you write once you...

Write a want ad or a for sale ad. Here's some ideas to get the juices flowing: The unexpected litter of dragon hatchlings deposited on y...

Here's the first line: "Adventure is just bad planning." Take it from there! (It's a quote from Roald Amundsen .)

I was searching for a weekly tip and came across a page on creating characters. It's a pretty good page, actually, but one piece of advi...

Use only the following words to write with. Cut them up, shuffle them around and see what you come up with. a and and as at back behind but ...

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...