Dragon Writing Prompts

The prompts are still here! Well over a thousand. I'm posting occasionally about writing to prevent the ads from taking over  less act...

" How do I make my story more engaging and interesting? " Tackling that question has been driving me for the past couple of year...

First drafts are for learning what your novel is about. Bernard Malamud I've participated in National Novel Writing Month 9 time...

The outcome to this looks obvious. So take it in another direction. :-) What if this is typical for the neighborhood? What if the kid ha...

Place the word "only" anywhere in this sentence: She told him that she loved him. More of a plaything than a writing prompt....

Arches National Park

It's New Year's Day. You wake up to find it's 2016. What happened to 2015? Try to piece together 2015 using pictures from your...

Bring me to life What's a warm up?

AP Photo/Sergei Grits

Just for grins a fake hieroglyph version of a snowball poem  from an October prompt Write a twelve-sentence story. Begin with a one word...

Everyday glory What's a warm up?

IceHotel Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

What's on Day's resume? What's on Night's? What are the requirements of their jobs? How do the jobs differ? What if Day ...

Holy diver What's a warm up?

Shicheng "Lion City"

With the advent of holodecks, people can visit any place any time any season. Everyone loves the soft freshness of spring, the vibrant c...

Where eagles have been What's a warm up?

Click for even more surreal air transport :-)

Homicide victims rarely talk to police That's the headline. Presumably victims did speak at one time. Now they don't. What happe...

End of the line What's a warm up?

(A video that captures even more.) caves by Ra Paulette

Cake by Yeners Cakes It's Thanksgiving on Mars. So what are the colonists giving thanks for? What event or dreadful times did they s...

Space station no. 5 What's a warm up?

EVERYWHERE WOMEN ARE RAVING ABOUT THIS AMAZING NEW SHAMPOO! What if this time it really was amazing? What if it did something besides cl...

Feast of starlight What's a warm up?

Powerslave What's a warm up?

All the wrong ideas What's a warm up?

photo by Nick Brandt More lovely photos by Nick Brandt .

KM Weiland has written a wonderful series of posts about growing a story from a character's flaws, what she calls The Lie the Characte...

Alexandra David-Néel She has such a forthright gaze. She has secrets. She challenges your own secrets, hinting that she can see them whe...

The lucky spirit What's a warm up?

Villafane Studios

At  Quadrival Quandary  you're given four unusual words and challenged to use them not just in a sentence but in one illustrative se...

Metal Gods What's a warm up?

AKA Moss Piglet or Tardigrade

A Snowball is a poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer. If you're metrophobic, try wr...

Wedding nails What's a warm up?

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr said, "Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that ...

One eye to Morocco What's a warm up?

Servant in Heaven What's a warm up?

For each set of 5 words create a sentence about fall or your favorite fall holiday. (Feel free to tamper with word forms.) hunger    e...

Blind faith What's a warm up?

Autumn, Spring, Summer and Winter walk into a Starbucks. They all sit down with their favorite seasonal beverage, each with a twist. (They...

Paragons of innocence What's a warm up?

Dance with the devil What's a warm up?

"She had ice water in her veins." Literally. What kind of creature is she? What kind of environment does she need? Does she ...

Erase/Replace What's a warm up?

Angel's eye What's a warm up?

On the I Dare You To Write Tumblr you're dared to write "a recipe for a dream," "like you've just woken up as your...

I ain't your savior What's a warm up?

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- Ian Maclaren What are the secret battles your character fights?...