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Creative Writing Prompts

  1. “It began with a whisper. More and more whispers joined it until it was a deafening wall of sound.”
  2. They were playing hide and seek when he disappeared. She spent the rest of her life looking for him.
  3. You walk into your friends’ room to find him preening his feathers.
  4. Their wings were stuck. They did not have the energy it would take to magic them away. (Could go with prompt 3)
  5. Midnight on your 18th birthday you wake up in your soulmates body. You have one hour to do what you want.
  6. Two high schoolers end up in the yearbook as ‘Most likely to get married’. They’re really close best friends.
  7. “The raindrops hit his skin like knives, but he didn’t move, the bus would come any minute.”
  8. Write a story about a person who has a mental illness where he/she cannot say, “I love you.” What happens? Does he or she ever get over it? How? (Compulsive liar or narcissist)
  9. Write a story about someone who is a serial monogamist and who may not understand what love truly means.
  10. Write a story in the format of love letters.
  11. Make a story about someone searching for what love means. (Can mean family love, romantic love or friendship love)
  12. Someone doesn’t believe in love and thinks they’ll never find it.
  13. If love could take the form of an object, animal or human being. This being represented, love. The story revolves around a group of characters who come into contact with the manifestation of love. (Ants-you could never really get rid of them no matter what)
  14. If love had a mind of its own. What beauty or tragedy would come out of it? If we happened to follow it completely with trust?
  15. Comedy over partner A trying to tell partner B they love them (for the first time). It always goes horribly wrong.
  16. Random object triggers an object of memory lapse in a character. Including animate or inanimate object that can trigger it. Character interactions with the world, a choice for them to be aware or unaware of these happenings.
  17. Tragedy happened. Don’t make it clear of what happened. Use thoughts, imagery and other elements to hint it.
  18. A musician is unable to play music again after a tragic accident. (Could be a violinist, pianist and they become paralyzed)
  19. Character wakes up to find someone or something else lying in bed.
  20. After waking up, the character finds a corpse on the floor, beside his bed.
  21. Man is severely depressed and strongly contemplating suicide.
  22. Main character’s goal is to not let a loved one commit suicide.
  23. Story over the main character waking up from a failed suicide attempt. (They could be trying over and over, but always live in the end)
  24. Someone needs to solve a murder mystery. However, their main resource is someone who suffers from a memory impairment and can only retrace certain details at a specific time.
  25. Main character’s best friend passed away and is told through the phone call.
  26. “It was then you realized that hell was winter, and you were in love with it.”