Writing Prompts That Don't Suck

Write a story. Use all of these words:

fiasco, pestilent, variform, zealous, culpable, histrionic, moonshine

Here are seven words. Use them in your frickin’ story.

smattering, globule, inert, accoutrement, stymie, skirt, mohawk

Use all these words in your story:

uber alles, squelch, oodles, slough, wither, breadbasket, zilch 

Here are seven words. Use them in your story.

smother, supercilious, perpendicular, torpid, ensconce, hub, peignoir

Write a story with all of these words:

murky, patina, rue, effusive, foozle, hellacious, noxious

Use all of these words in your story:

anathema , misanthropy, perfunctory, sycophant, voracity, verisimilitude

Here are seven words. Use them all in your story. Then cry.

slovenly, loiter, impetuous, pussyfoot, nosh, pestilential, doohickey

Today’s edition is composed of words I absolutely hate. Use ‘em all in your story.

whimsical, palate, yummy, darling, handsome, trod, munch

Here are seven words of varying interestingness. Use them all in your story:

lax, fester, adorable, glisten, fastidiously, zephyr, mosey

Use these words in your story. If nothing else, it’ll help bump up your pathetic word count.

neurosis, clandestine, asphyxiate, artisanal, nomenclature, listless, flank

Use all o’ these words in your precious little story.

miasma, obsolescent, faceless, flaunt, masticatory, recital, buttercup

Seven words. Use them, and they’ll make your story seven times better:

smarmy, gauntlet, circumflex, nihility, schadenfreude, unravel, vis-a-vis

Words. Words for your story you’ll probably never finish.

 tinge, posthumous, kip, galactic, stereophonic, thundercloud, wrangle

Here are seven words. Use them in your story, OK?

abbreviate, languid, indelible, squash, slovenly, careen, blatant

Use all of these words in your story:

velveteen, festoon, divulge, Lurex, surreptitious, mosey, perfunctory