We find ourselves sitting in our writing space (probably staring into space) just trying to think of something to write about, or a way to continue the WIP we have already begun. No matter how hard we attempt to get the creative juices flowing we can’t find the right mindset. In this situation I have recently found it helpful to stop thinking so hard and just write.
But how do I do this without coming up with a jumping off point?
Well I turn to my best friend: 642 Things To Write About.
So when you find yourselves in this pickle find a pencil, some paper, and a prompt.
To start you out here are 10 of my favorites:
•Your bedroom from the point of view of a stranger forced to occupy it for a week•The most troubling phone call you hope you never get
•You wake up in an open field wearing an astronaut suit and lying on a surf board. What happened?
•Write a story that ends with the line “And this is the room where it happened.”
•Alfred Hitchcock said that a mystery is not knowing what will happen to a bunch of guys playing poker; suspense is when only you know there’s a bomb underneath the poker table. write about a banal event, but start by introducing something that will change everything and that only the reader knows is coming.
•You, a grown adult, are afraid of the dark. Explain why this is a legitimate concern, so friends won’t laugh at you.
•You are a fifty-three-year-old woman living in Chicago. Write a letter to Santa.
•Tenth Anniversary
•Two paramedics have a patient in the back of the ambulance. The patient has only about 30 minutes to live. It could take twenty minutes or more to get to the hospital. What’s going on in the ambulance?
•Rewrite a piece of your writing in one-syllable words.
Don't forget to share what get your juices flowing in the comments. We would also love to hear about some of the prompts that got you going.
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