When you were a child, what was your favorite fairy tale? “Cinderella”? “Jack and the Beanstalk”? “The Ugly Duckling”? Write a modern, micro version of that fairy tale. (Image: fanaru.com)
Category: Writing prompts
Writing prompt: To conform or not
Have there been times in your life when you went along with the traditional ways of doing things? Have there been times when you did something unconventional? Write about those experiences and what you learned from them. Feel free to be serious and funny.
Writing prompt: Near-death experience
Have you ever had a near-death experience or do you know someone who has? Write about it in first person, as if it is happening right now.
What I’m reading: Sober Play
I’ve just started reading Sober Play: Using Creativity for a More Joyful Recovery by Jill Kelly with Bridget Benton. Here’s an excerpt:
Select a difficult moment from your past. Write about that moment as a scene in a novel or play just as it happened. To take it deeper: Rewrite the scene with a different ending.
Writing prompt: Car crash
Writing prompt:
Describe a car crash you witnessed or were involved in.
Writing prompt: Secret life
Writing prompt: Describe the secret life of a tango teacher, taxi cab driver or pet sitter.
Writing prompt: What if….
Pick one of the following prompts and write about it for 10 minutes:
What if the owner of a bakery became diabetic?
What if you were born 50 years earlier?
What if three teens hacked into a library database and learned what everyone in town is reading?
Writing prompt: Olympic Games
More than one badminton team has been disqualified from the Olympic Games for intentionally losing. Describe a fictional athlete intentionally losing a game. Include interior monologue.
Writing prompt: Libraries and bookstores
Write about a library or bookstore that has special significance for you. Which authors did you discover there? Did you just enjoy being in the space?
Writing prompts
Three writing prompts from The Writer’s Block by Jason Rekulak:
1. Write about a library or bookstore that has special significance to you. Which authors did you discover there?
2. Write about your partner’s first sexual experience.
3. Write about the physical characteristic you would have killed to change in junior high school.
Nancy Woods 