Writing Prompt Collection (v1)

Getting started is one of the hardest parts of writing, next only to keeping up the project for the long haul. Below I've gathered several writing prompts and exercises, all in one place. If looking to try something new, or add something to your current project, see what you can brainstorm below!

1. Search through a book you've read recently. Pick out some key words that jump out at you. Then, use these words as a basis for a short story, poem, or premise.

2. Choose a "Word of the Day" - there are words posted on Mirriam-Webster. Write a paragraph of thought centered around that word and its meaning, themes, or feeling.

3. The character has spent their whole life searching for something - a place, a person, a specific object - and it is suddenly revealed that something doesn't really exist. What happens next?

4. In a world of magic or sci-fi, characters discover affinity for things opposite their personality. For example, an individual raised as a hermit has the ability to control metal. What is this world like under antithetical powers?

5. How would your character seduce the Devil?

6. In your world, all are eventually called into a meeting with the High Overseer. No one knows when, or even why, these meetings happen - only that citizens emerge in a new light. What decisions are made in this meeting, and why are its contents forever secret?

This post is part of a short prompt series meant to help the up and coming writers with potential project ideas, or to help brainstorm more elements of their own existing stories.