Looking for some inspiration to help keep you writing through the quarantine? The Writers’ Room has you covered! Follow us on Twitter for daily writing prompts!
Here are our first seven prompts, posted over the course of this past week. And if these help get you moving, feel free to share the results with us!
- A story, poem, or diary entry that is exactly 100 words. The first sentence and the last sentence must be a question (these can be the same question if your entire piece is an 100-word sentence).
- Retell a fairy tale, fable, myth, rumor, chain letter, or folklore in exactly 250 words.
- Open the closest book to you (e-books count) and select a random 12 words. Write a story, poem, or diary entry of any length that uses all 12 words.
- Write an eight-line poem (an octet) where the first four lines begin to tell a story, the next three lines provide sensory information without revealing the end of the story, and the last line is a common idiom.
- Tell a narrative of any genre, no longer than 500 words, in the form of a grocery list.
- Tell a narrative of any genre, no longer than 750 words, in the form of a multiple-choice quiz.
- Tell a narrative of any genre, no longer than 1000 words, in the form of an instruction manual.
