Writing Prompts That Don't Suck

Tired of only finding sucky writing prompts on the internet? I know I am. Check back every day for a new prompt that totally doesn't suck.

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Writing Prompt #759: Beginnings and Endings

Start your story with: Maddy watched the strange man crawl out of the escape pod, his arms shaking, his eyes wild.

End your story with: This man had seen things; things Maddy would never full understand.

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Writing Prompt #758: Genre Blender

Write a story that combines elements of these two genres:

Police Procedural

AND

Paranormal Romance

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Writing Prompt #757: Name That Story!

Write a story with this title:

Condos of the Damned

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Writing Prompt #756: A Genre, a Person, and a Problem

All this stuff. Use it in your story:

Genre: techno thriller

Person: a birdwatcher

Problem: a cult has taken over the local grocery store

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Writing Prompt #755: Sad Libs

Fill in the blank with something sad and use it in your sad, sad story:

Lori didn’t want to leave town, but when Sandy _________, she felt she didn’t have any choice,

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Writing Prompt #754: Person, Place, Thing!

Use these things in your absolutely fascinating story:

a college student who doesn’t know they have magical powers, a struggling coffee shop, a comet

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Writing Prompt #753: Junk Drawer

Here’s a bunch of random stuff I found. Use it all in your story:

a mall food court, a magical station wagon, a throne made of garbage, a cat costume, an unbreakable glass door, a red button, a Lisa Frank notebook filled with weird writing

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Writing Prompt #752: Do as I Say!

Write a story about someone who is really good at something they hate.

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Writing Prompt #751: Seven Stupid Words

Expand your vocabulary! Use all of these splendiferous words in your story:

machination, divert, foray, vexatious, saunter, screed, ruddy

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Writing Prompt #750: Three Things!

Use all three of these in your ding-dang story:

a vat of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, a boombox that won’t shut off, a clock that only runs backward

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Writing Prompt #749: The Blank Is Your Mom: That’s What She Said Edition

Fill in the blank and use this line of dialogue in your story:

“I would have won the cake walk if it hadn’t been for _______.”

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Writing Prompt #748: A Genre, a Person, and a Problem

Use all of this in your story:

Genre: crime

Person: a cooking show host with a floundering career

Problem: a beloved local diner is in danger of being closed

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Writing Prompt #747: Seven Stupid Words

Here’s seven words. Use them all in your story:

contravene, travelogue, gauzy, traipse, splendiferous, dynasty, throng

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Writing Prompt #746: Do as I Say!

Write a story that takes place in a suburban subdivision populated entirely by celebrity impersonators.

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Writing Prompt #745: Person, Place Thing!

Three nouns. Put ‘em in your story:

a magician, a music video shoot, a bucket of orange liquid

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Writing Prompt #744: It’s the End of the Story as I Wrote It

End your story with this sentence:

I turned around and shrugged; there was nothing left to do and I had to go to work in the morning.

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Writing Prompt #743: Three Things

Three random things. Use them all in your story. Or don’t!

a pile of pile of broken e-scooters, a notebook filled with writing, an ouija board