Daily Prompts for Writers

A character that is aware of the fourth wall, but only when they receive a certain trigger.

A ghost haunts the vegetable patch of a local kindergarten.

Choose the time limit or the word count and write until you hit it! Prompt optional.

Prompt: A dilapidated theatre

Time: 15 minutes

Word Count: 300 words

Use this song to spark a story idea.

Isabel - The Wombats

A challenge: Write one a day, write them all at once, use only one, or mix and match!

Hope

Trapped during a snow storm with no heating

Phone is on 2% batter

Sound of a killer’s footsteps retreating

A failing marraige

A palace burning

You can choose to write for the 1, 3 or 5 word prompts, mix and match, or write on all three!

Indecision

Satirical, dumbass, lonely

Scalding, dumped, lobotomy, fierce, orange

“Its venom is highly toxic. Death typically occurs within two minutes of the initial-”

“GET IT OFF ME THEN!”

A revolutionary leader who is blackmailed into feeding information to the other side.

A plague ravages the land, spread not by physical proximity, but by emotional proximity. It can only be transmitted to those you care about.

Choose the time limit or the word count and write until you hit it! Prompt optional.

Prompt: Cannibalism

Time: 24 minutes

Word Count: 1111 words

Random Word Generator

Use this to generate a random word to spark a story or get you out of a slump.

A challenge: Write one a day, write them all at once, use only one, or mix and match!

Metallic

A cyborg looking for their lost leg

An engineer who can fix everything but this one thing

A magpie searching for things to pretty its nest with

A dragon’s horde

The click of a gun

You can choose to write for the 1, 3 or 5 word prompts, mix and match, or write on all three!

Fantasmagorical

Lord, Draught, Pin

Enemy, Sizzle, Faint, Feint, Leap

“So, you’re in a band? That’s pretty cool. What do you play?”

“Uh...lighting?”

A character who sees the world in terms of its relation to numbers.

A broken-hearted alien gets in a spaceship and flies to the other side of the galaxy.

Choose the time limit or the word count and write until you hit it! Prompt optional.

Prompt: A larger-than-normal rat

Time: 2 minutes

Word Count: 320 words