What are your favorite writing prompts?

July 31, 2020 9:27 AM

I'm making a concerted effort to Write The Damn Book. I've found a few writing prompts that have been helpful to jumpstart me on days I'm spinning my wheels on a blank page, but would like to collect more.
posted by frizzle to Writing & Language (5 answers total)

This is what I do:

• Go to the Ninja Words website.
• Click the "Random" button three times, or more, until I get three random words that I am happy with as a writing prompt.
• Write. (Of course, any site that generates random words would work, but I've found Ninja Words the best for me.)

I've also used Writer Igniter.
posted by ShooBoo at 9:37 AM on July 31, 2020

There's a small defunct Toronto Facebook group called "Creative Writers Unite" which has like 200 days of writing prompts. If you join, well, there you go
posted by cotesdurhone at 9:40 AM on July 31, 2020

I was just in a zoom writing class today and they recommended Gathering Voices by Marty McConnell.
posted by intrepid_simpleton at 1:44 PM on July 31, 2020

Bernadette Mayer’s

Charles Bernstein’s
posted by degoao at 7:14 PM on July 31, 2020 [1 favorite]

I’ve used this list compiled by Wordpress.
posted by Carouselle at 1:54 PM on August 1, 2020