25 Quick Writing Prompts
Here are a few exercises you can try to get the words flowing on any given day. Don't think, "I'm writing a novel." Just pick a prompt and start writing. It doesn't have to have anything at all to do with your novel. The sole purpose of these prompts is to help kickstart your writing day.
- Write about falling.
- Write about the last person you fought with.
- Write about flying.
- Write about the last person you drank/swam/cuddled/made out with.
- Write about a work of art.
- Write about the last thing you lost.
- Write about the last thing you found.
- Write about a place that is very hot.
- Write about a place that is very cold.
- Write about your father.
- Write about your mother.
- Write about a family ritual from you childhood.
- Write about snow.
- Write about somewhere you've never been and want to go.
- Write about somewhere you never want to return to.
- What's the title of your favorite song? Write the song title at the top of the page. Then write from there.
- Write about the best food you ever ate.
- Write about the worst illness you ever experienced.
- Write about traffic.
- Write about the sea.
Fill in the Blanks
Fill in the blanks however you like, and then just keep writing...
- In the summer of ___, I was too old to ___ and to young to ___.
- In the winter of ___, I found myself ___.
- That was the year we all __.
- They never expected to __, but then they never knew__.
- Nothing prepared her for the moment when...