Writing Prompts That Don't Suck

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Write about someone who is completely and utterly awful in every way imaginable. Maybe throw in a unicorn or a narwhal.


A new prompt! It’s a Christmas miracle!

Write about someone whose terrifying Christmas-themed fan fiction is discovered by their significant other. Is the significant other horrified or intrigued?


Here are three nouns. Use them in your story:

a warlock, a Dairy Queen, a 6-pack of beer


Write a story about a summer intern who ends up running the company by the end of his or her first week.


Write about someone who is ill … and the only cure is for them to do something gut-wrenchingly disgusting.


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

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


Fill in the blank and use this sentence in your story:

She threw the _____________ into the closet. If anyone found it, she’d just have to ____________ them.


Write a story using all this stuff:

Genre: inspirational fiction
Person: an outsider pornographer
Problem: the Dairy Queen ran out of hamburger patties

Use all this junk in your story:

Genre: psychological thriller

Person: a lady photographer (interpret as you wish)

Problem: someone has robbed a natural history museum


Write a stories with these three things:

a mannequin, a recipe book, a coven of witches


Write about someone who takes the “jack of all trades” concept to the extreme.


Write about a school science fair experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong.



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