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.

If you want to use a writing prompt, but get stuck, try repeating a single writing prompt over and over … . Complete the prompt with a different ending each time.

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 ...

• Just for today...

• Sadness descended and ...

• Maybe I can take it as a ...

• What was I thinkng when …?