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Writing prompts can offer tremendous writing help for writers at every level of experience and expertise. Who can use writing prompts?
Beginners can use writing prompts to help them learn and grow as writers as well as gain valuable experience in the craft. The only sure way to improve your writing is to write regularly and prompts can help you sharpen your skills on a regular basis. Perfection will never be in your writing future, but it is very true that regular practice is the only way to improve your work. While you may have a long list of ideas and projects to work on you may also want to employ prompts from time to time to fill in the gaps in your schedule.
Experienced writers can use writing prompts to stretch their writing muscles to prepare for their writing assignments or each day’s work. They can also use exercises and prompts to create a swipe file of ideas for future reference.
Professional writers can use writing prompts to give them a creative jump start when necessary and to experiment with other forms of writing. If you feel your work is going stale or that you need some inspiration, then using prompts can make a huge difference in your creativity and overall work.
All writers can use writing prompts with writer’s block and improving their work. No matter what level your word craft may be, every writer experiences some form of writer’s block from time to time. Forcing yourself to write through it with a series of prompts can be a very effective way to tear down your writer’s block. Many times we fall into a rut with our work and writing prompts can challenge us out of that rut. This stretching can greatly improve your writing. Every day, week, month and year that you work on your craft you improve as a writer.
Whether you are a beginning, experienced, or professional writer you can use writing prompts to help you improve your word craft.

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A writer is only as good as her ideas. That is why it’s frustrating when writers run out of inspiration. In fact, most put down their pens for weeks at a time due to disappointment. Writing prompts come in handy in situations such as these because they serve as a catalyst for bigger, better stories.

 

To assist you with the creative process, below are writing prompts designed to help you avoid or overcome writer’s block.

 

Writing prompt #1: Describe the first time you…

a) fell in love.

b) drank a cup of coffee.

c) actually felt connected to someone for the first time.

d) you changed a baby’s diaper.

e) made out in the backseat of a car.

f) got into an argument with your parents.

 

Writing prompt #2: Write a letter to (for)…

a) someone who has passed away and that you miss dearly.

b) your first grade teacher

c) your child to open when he is thirty

d) the child you once were.

e) your favorite celebrity.

f) your local butcher.

 

Writing prompt #3: Begin a story with the one of the following sentences:

a) We are going to need wine – lots of it.

b) I can hear you, you know.

c) She’s sick. She’s dying.

d) The judges have made their decision.

e) He’s her sugar daddy.

f) I’ll be fine. Go to work.

 

Writing prompt #4: Write a story from the perspective of a(n)… 

a) shoe.

b) money.

c) eyebrow.

d) eyeglasses.

e) computer.

f) corpse.

 

Writing prompt #5: In 300 words…

a) write about a time you acted like a coward.

b) describe a time you let someone go whom you loved.

c) write down your deepest secret.

d) jot down a time you needed someone in your life.

e) illustrate a time when you were humbled.

f) recall the first song that touched you.

 

Writing prompt #6: Below are general writing prompts.

a) If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, which charity would benefit and how would you want your money spent.

b) Write a clever phrase you’d like to see as a bumper sticker or as a company logo.

c) Write an apology to a person you wronged.

d) Jot down a story where the first letter of every sentence starts with the letter A.

e) Start a story with, “Shut up. I like that kid.”

f) Start a story with, “It’s easy work. If you can get it.”

 

Writing prompt #7: Begin a story with one of the following famous movie lines.

a) I just wanna say one word to you. Just one word.

b) Have you got the nerve to tell me you don’t want to marry my son for his money?

c) Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!

d) Greed – for lack of a better word – is good. Greed is right. Greed works.

e) Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

f) You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Well, who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who the f–k do you think you’re talkin’ to?

 

When you feel out of touch with your inner writer, reread the aforementioned prompts. There you will find the motivation to write your next big story.

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