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Writing prompts

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Stuck for an idea? Read through the prompts below. With any luck one wiggle jiggle loose your creativity. Some of the prompts are of settings only -- your challenge would be to use the setting to inspire a story that could be set there. Other prompts detail specific characters -- you provide the details and plot lines this person could be involved in.

 

Setting prompt #1

Your character lives in a remote shore town on the coast of a major ocean (you choose the ocean). While there are no roads that come into your town because of the mountains that surround it, there are, however, roads within the town. All groceries, mail, and other deliveries must come by barge or individual boat. Some people in town own float planes and come and go by air, but mostly everyone travels by boat.

 

Setting prompt #2

The year is 2009 but your character lives high in the mountains away from “civilization”. Why does he/she live in the wilderness? What drove him/her out there? How does he/she survive and how does he/she get groceries and other necessities? Write a story set in the wild (you may choose which wilderness) that tells the tale of someone who lives so set apart.

 

Theme prompt #1

Your protagonist is about to learn the lesson of his life. What lesson does she learn and how does he/she learn it? 

 

Theme prompt #2

Sometimes good doesn't win in the end. Write a story in which your protagonist doesn't win the conflict.

 

Point of view #1

You're on your way home from school and witness an accident. Write a first-person account of what you saw.

 

Point of view #2

Same accident from pov prompt #1, only this time you're writing in third person. Your protagonist can be the same as before, or someone else who saw (or was in) the accident.

 

Even more writing prompts from Writer's Digest

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