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This document provides 10 creative writing prompts to help writers practice and improve their skills. It introduces the prompts and encourages writers to try a few, sharing their work in the comments for feedback. The prompts cover a variety of topics like grandparents, feeling out of place, ghosts, road trips, and autumn. The document promotes regular writing practice with prompts as a way to hone one's craft.

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10 Best Creative Writing Prompts

This document provides 10 creative writing prompts to help writers practice and improve their skills. It introduces the prompts and encourages writers to try a few, sharing their work in the comments for feedback. The prompts cover a variety of topics like grandparents, feeling out of place, ghosts, road trips, and autumn. The document promotes regular writing practice with prompts as a way to hone one's craft.

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10 Best Creative Writing Prompts


by Joe Bunting | 203 Comments

You get better at any skill through practice. Prompts are a great way to practice writing
(as you might imagine, we’re really into practice here), and in this post, I have ten of our
best creative writing prompts.

Try a few out, and if you’re ready to take the next step in your writing, check out our 100
Best Short Story Ideas.

How To Use These Creative Writing Prompts


At the end of every article on The Write Practice, we include a writing prompt so you can
put what you just learned to use immediately. And we invite you to share your writing
with our community so you can get feedback on your work.
The Write Practice is more than just a writing blog. It’s a writing workbook, and we think
it’s the best one on the Internet (of course, we’re a bit biased).

One of the most important parts of practice is getting feedback, and we want to help YOU
get feedback on your writing. To do that, below each prompt on this page is a link to
share your practice in the comments section on a page dedicated to that prompt.

After you share your writing, please be sure to give feedback to at least three other
writers there in the comments. That way everyone can get feedback!

And if you want even more prompts, you can download our workbook, 14 Prompts, for
free here (it’s normally, $5.99).

Our Most Popular Creative Writing Prompts


Why not try using two or three of these creative writing prompts in your writing today?
Who knows, you might even begin something that becomes your next novel to write or
short story. It’s happened to Write Practicers before!

Enjoy the writing prompts!

My 3 Favorite Writing Prompts


Write about a time you felt out of place, awkward, and uncomfortable. Try not to
focus on your feelings, but project your feelings onto the things around you.
Write about a ghost. How do they feel about the world? What do they see and hear?
How did they become a ghost?
Your characters haven’t gotten any sleep. Write about why, and how they respond to
being sleepless.

1. Grandfathers
Write about a grandfather, maybe your grandfather or your character’s grandfather.
What memories do you/does your character associate with him.

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: Grandfathers


2. Sleepless
Your characters haven’t gotten any sleep. Write about it.

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: Sleepless


3. Out of Place
Write about a time you felt out of place, awkward, and uncomfortable. Try not to focus
on your feelings, but project your feelings onto the things around you.

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: Out of Place


4. Longing
Write about longing. How does it feel to go about a normal day when your character
wants something else?

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: Longing


5. Write About Yourself
Write about yourself.

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the writing prompt: Write About Yourself

6. Ghosts
Write about a ghost. How do they feel about the world? What do they see and hear? How
did they become a ghost?

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: 3 Reasons to Write About Ghosts

7. Road Trip
Write about a roadtrip. Is your character escaping something? Is your character looking
for something? Hint at the thing without telling us while describing what the character
sees.

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the writing prompt: Road Trip


8. Morning
Write about the morning. What are your character’s morning routines? What is special
about this morning?

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: Morning


9. The Beach
Write about the beach. Is your character reflecting on something important that has
happened to them? Describe the memory while overlaying the sights, sounds, and smells
of the beach onto them.

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: The Beach


10. Autumn
Write about autumn. Natural surroundings can bring up old memories and odd feelings.
Describe what your character sees, feels, and most of all does.

Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your writing practice in the
comments section on this page. If you post, be sure to give feedback to three other
writers as well.

See the prompt: Autumn


Other Great Resources
25 Creative Writing Prompts from Writing Forward
CreativeWritingPrompts.com
Writing Exercises from Poets & Writers
Story Starters for Kids from Scholastic
30 Writing Prompts for Teachers
Our ProWritingAid Review

Do you use writing prompts in your writing?

PRACTICE
For today’s practice, choose one of these prompts and write for fifteen minutes.
When you’re finished with your practice, share it in that post’s comments section.

Happy writing!


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Joe Bunting is an author and the leader of The Write Practice community. He is also the
author of the new book Crowdsourcing Paris, a real life adventure story set in France. It
was a #1 New Release on Amazon. Follow him on Instagram (@jhbunting).
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