topic

Writing prompts

Drafts, edits, rewrites. For when the words exist but refuse to line up.

• creative Translate Your Creative Process Into a Method Someone Else Could Learn From

  Articulate how you create so it can be shared, refined, or taught.

• creative Translate a Genre Convention Into Your Own Work

  Borrow a structural technique from another genre and use it in your own work.

• creative Translate Your Story Idea Into the Version That Is Actually Interesting to Someone Else

  Find the version of your story idea that is interesting to someone who does not already care.

• creative Summarise What Your Creative Work Is Actually About

  Find out what your creative work is actually about underneath its surface subject.

• creative Summarise Your Novel Idea in One Pitch Line

  Reduce your whole novel to one line without losing what makes it interesting.

• creative Translate Your Creative Vision into a Commission Brief

  Turn what is in your head into a brief someone else can actually execute.

• creative Compare Two Possible Endings for the Same Story

  Choose between two endings based on what the story has earned, not what feels safer.

• creative Translate Technical Writing into Accessible Prose

  Turn a passage that loses people in the third sentence into something that keeps them.

• play Turn an Escape Room into a Story Worth Telling

  Tell someone about the escape room without ruining it for them.

• creative Decide Whether to Share Creative Work Before It Feels Ready

  Work out whether holding back your creative work is protecting quality or protecting your ego.

• creative Decide Whether to Write the Story in First or Third Person

  Choose the narrative perspective that actually fits your story rather than your habit.

• creative Translate a Real Event into a Scene That Works as Fiction

  Turn a real event into a scene that serves the story rather than the record.

• creative Critique Dialogue for Authenticity

  Find the dialogue that sounds like a writer and turn it into a character.

• creative Decide Whether to Kill Your Darling

  Get an honest answer on whether the piece you cannot cut should stay.

• creative Find What Your Story Is Actually About

  Find the question your story is asking before you finish writing it.

• creative Reframe a Creative Block as a Signal Rather Than an Obstacle

  Find out what a creative block is telling you rather than waiting for it to go away.

• creative Generate Ten Titles for a Piece You Cannot Name

  Generate ten title options for a piece you cannot find the right name for.

• creative Reframe a Disappointing Creative Response

  Turn a discouraging creative response into information rather than a verdict.

• creative Compare Two Narrative Structures for Your Story to Find the One That Fits

  Choose between two narrative structures by understanding what each one does to your story.

• creative Critique a Prose Passage for Structural Clarity

  Get a structural edit on your prose without someone rewriting it for you.

• creative Compare Two Poetry Forms for Your Theme

  Choose the poetic form that does something useful to your subject.

• creative Reframe a Creative Project That Has Stalled

  Find out why a creative project stalled before trying to push through it.

• creative Critique a First-Person Voice for Consistency

  Find where your narrator stops sounding like themselves.

• creative Critique a Piece of Creative Non-Fiction for Where It Loses the Reader

  Find the passages in a creative non-fiction piece where the reader's attention slips.

more writing prompts ↓

← all topics