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Writing prompts
Drafts, edits, rewrites. For when the words exist but refuse to line up.
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- creative Critique a Short Story Opening for Reader Hook
Find out whether your story opening makes a reader want to continue.
- creative Critique Your Opening Chapter
Find out what is pushing readers away from your opening before you share it.
- creative Critique a Short Story Draft for What Is Working Against It
Get a precise critique of a short story draft focused on what is working against it.
- creative Generate an Opening Scene That Makes a Reader Need to Know What Happens Next
Draft an opening scene that makes a reader need to find out what happens next.
- creative Translate a Real Memory Into a Fictional Scene
Turn something that actually happened into fiction that says more than the facts did.
- creative Write a Poem Using a Found Text
Make a poem from a text that was never meant to be one.
- self Write a Letter to Your Past Self
Write the letter to your past self that is honest rather than wise in hindsight.
- life Write Your Personal Year in Review
Look back at the year honestly and take something useful from it.
- creative Rewrite a Scene in a Different Genre
Rewrite a scene in a different genre to understand what each genre actually does.
- creative Rewrite a Flat Scene with Emotional Subtext
Stop telling the reader what your character feels. Show it instead.
- work Critique Your Own Work Before Submitting It
Get a structural critique of your writing before anyone else sees it.
- creative Critique Your Own Short Story Draft
Get an honest structural critique of your story before anyone else reads it.
- creative Write a Personal Essay From One Specific Moment
Turn one specific moment into an essay that reaches somewhere larger.
- creative Write a Character Study of Someone Whose Views You Disagree With
Write a character whose worldview you disagree with from the inside, without making them a villain.
- creative Write a Query Letter That Gets a Literary Agent to Read Your Novel
Draft the query letter that makes a literary agent read the first page.
- creative Build a Villain With a Coherent Worldview
Give your antagonist a worldview that makes them genuinely unsettling.
- learn Develop a Long-Form Research Essay Plan
Plan a research essay structure before the writing reveals the argument is missing.
- life Write a Product Review That Is Actually Helpful
Write a product review that tells the next buyer what the listing does not.
- creative Write a One-Person Play
Write a one-person play that fills the stage without a single other actor.
- creative Write a Short Story Opening Paragraph
Generate a short story opening that does everything right in 100 words.
- creative Write a Speech for a Wedding
Write a wedding speech that people remember for the right reasons.
- creative Write a Nature Journal Entry
Write a nature journal entry that records what is actually there rather than what it means.
- work Write a Funding Application Summary
Write a funding application summary that answers what funders actually want to know.
- creative Write a Poem That Earns Its Last Line
Write a poem where the ending actually earns its place instead of just closing things off.