This document provides 25 creative writing prompts ranging from finding gold in the garden to turning animals into monsters. Some prompts suggest writing about themes like beauty found in ugly things, asteroids colliding with meteors, childhood memories of faith, and making moral judgments about good and evil. The prompts encourage a variety of writing forms like stories, poems, and character perspectives.
This document provides 25 creative writing prompts ranging from finding gold in the garden to turning animals into monsters. Some prompts suggest writing about themes like beauty found in ugly things, asteroids colliding with meteors, childhood memories of faith, and making moral judgments about good and evil. The prompts encourage a variety of writing forms like stories, poems, and character perspectives.
This document provides 25 creative writing prompts ranging from finding gold in the garden to turning animals into monsters. Some prompts suggest writing about themes like beauty found in ugly things, asteroids colliding with meteors, childhood memories of faith, and making moral judgments about good and evil. The prompts encourage a variety of writing forms like stories, poems, and character perspectives.
This document provides 25 creative writing prompts ranging from finding gold in the garden to turning animals into monsters. Some prompts suggest writing about themes like beauty found in ugly things, asteroids colliding with meteors, childhood memories of faith, and making moral judgments about good and evil. The prompts encourage a variety of writing forms like stories, poems, and character perspectives.
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Creative Writing Prompts
1. Youre is digging in the garden and find a fist-sized nugget of gold. Theres more where that came from in this hilarious story of sudden wealth. 2. Write about something ugly war, fear, hate, or crueltybut find the beauty (silver lining) in it or something good that comes out of it. 3. An asteroid and a meteoroid collide near Earth, and fragments rain down onto the planets surface, wreaking havoc. Some of those fragments contain surprising elements: fossils that prove life exists elsewhere in the galaxy, for example. 4. A kid comes out of the school bathroom with toilet paper dangling from his or her waistband. 5. Revisit your earliest memories of learning about faith, religion, or spirituality. 6. Use all of the following words in a piece of writing: bit, draw, flex, perilous, bubble, corner, rancid, pound, high, open. 7. Write a poem about a first romantic (dare I say: sexual) experience or encounter. 8. He turned the key in the lock and opened the door. To his horror, he saw 9. Silvery flakes drifted downward, glittering in the bright light of the harvest moon. The blackbird soared. 10. Tell bad drivers, rude customers, and evil dictators how grateful you are for what theyve done. Do it with a wink and a smile. 11. Write a story about a detective solving a crime that was committed against his or her partner or a crime that his or her partner committed. 12. Three children are sitting on a log near a stream. One of them looks up at the sky and says 13. There is a magic talisman that allows its keeper to read minds. It falls into the hands of a young politician 14. Weve seen cute and cuddly dragons, mean and vicious dragons, and noble dragons. Write a story about a different kind of dragon. 15. Use all of the following words in a piece of writing: dash, hard, staple, billboard, part, circle, flattened. 16. A doctor puts his hand on his patients arm and says, You or the baby will survive. Not both. Im sorry. 17. Write about when you did something bad and got away with it. 18. The kids were raised on the mantra Family is everything. What happens when they find out their parents arent who they pretended to be? Will the family fall apart? 19. You walk into your house and its completely different furniture, decor, all changed. It doesnt look like the same house anymore. And nobodys home. 20. Turn ordinary animals into monsters that prey on humans: dog-sized rats, killer rabbits, or a pack of rabid mountain lions. Give the animals intelligence and set them loose. 21. A twinkling eye can mean many things. Write a poem about a twinkle in someones eye. 22. What determines an action or person as good or evil? Who gets to decide what or who is good or evil? 23. Write about your body.
24. Have you ever been just about to drift off to sleep only to be roused by a spontaneous memory of an embarrassing moment from your past? 25. Use all of the following words in a piece of writing: feast, fire, modify, squash, robbed, forgotten, under-stated.
