Prompt No. 13

Write a story where a stick is a prop, character, or even setting. Is a kid dragging the stick along a fence? Is the stick home to some tiny ants? You decide.

 

Goal: 700 words or 15 minutes

Prompt No. 12

Write about a sudden search to find a smell. Is it a wonderful smell or something like garbage? Why is it important for your character/s to find this smell?

 

Goal: 500 words or 15 minutes

Prompt No. 11

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Write about a family of talking squirrels who claim that you stole their acorns. Why ever would they think this of you?

 

Goal: 25 minutes

Prompt No. 10

Write a letter to a celebrity from the mind of an obsessed stalker.

 

Goal: 10 minutes

Prompt No. 9

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Write about a bank scene robbery where a teller is the robber.

 

Goal: 10 minutes or 800 words

Prompt No. 8

Write in the first person point of view of someone who is opposite from your height and/or weight. Show us how you are treated by other people. What are the comments that they say to you?

 

Goal: 800 words or less

Prompt No. 7

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Write a descriptive scene on a mountain. What kind of mountain is it? Snowy or rocky? Full of trees or dirt? What's the temperature like? Most of all, what are the animals on this mountain doing in front of your very eyes?

 

Goal: 15 minutes or 500 words

Prompt No. 6

Write a funny conversation between a mime and either a business owner or someone helping run the business, like a salesclerk. Remember, mimes are not supposed to talk, but you don't have to follow that rule.

 
Goal: 1000 words or less



Prompt No. 5

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Write an action scene between a person on the shores of a beach and a surfer in the water. Is the person on the sand a lifeguard or tanner? Does something terrible happen to the surfer in the water or does the action start when he or she comes back to shore?     

 

Goal: 20 minutes

Prompt No. 4

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Write about a ghost in a school hallway. What does this ghost do to scare the kids in the school?

Goal: 1000 words or less

Prompt No. 3

Write about a struggling writer. What are they struggling with? The so-called "great American novel?" Finding a publisher? Depression? Mice in the attic? Take your pick.

 

Pssst! You can write about yourself!

Goal: 30 minutes

Prompt No. 2

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Write about a boy and his dog lost in the woods. Somehow, the dog must save the boy. But from what?

 

Goal: 1200 words or less

Prompt No. 1

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Write a conversation between a man and a woman who are dating. The woman has a secret that she wants to tell the man. The man already knows this secret.

 

Goal: 15-20 minutes