Writing Prompts are essentially sentence stems. They can be used to begin a sentence, a practice writing session, to push through a block or even as a playful spoken exercise with a group of budding writers.

 

WRITING PROMPTS

  • I really want to know …
  • If I won a big, huge jackpot
  • Having a passport …
  • Parts of me …
  • The memory begins …
  • Nana used to say…
  • The biggest change …
  • The last time I saw …
  • I'm so happy I could …
  • When the yearning …
  • If you could hear what I can not say …
  • More than anything else …
  • My favourite love story …
  • In my previous incarnation…
  • If I was Queen/King ...
  • The funniest thing happened ...
  • The first time that ...
  • In this lifetime I've learned ...
  • Today, I'm happy because ...
  • If I were a bird ...
  • I'm grateful for ...
  • A blind date can ...
  • The passion in life is ...
  • If only for today...
  • Sadness descended and ...
  • Maybe I can take it as a ...
  • What was I thinking when …?
  • It came unglued ...