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20 More Prompts to Kickstart Your Writing




So I've done this before, but sometimes you need more ideas for your stories, something that can hit the spot. No problem. Remember, limiting your options will force you to be more creative, so give these prompts a try.

  1. Choose a vowel and avoid using it
  2. Write a palindrome
  3. Make your own Battle Royale game
  4. Describe the life of a merchant
  5. The first object to your left is now bound to your soul
  6. Tell your father's story
  7. Take a character from a book and put him in another environment
  8. Survival story
  9. Something scary that doesn't scare you
  10. What's the Devil afraid of?
  11. Take a poem and turn it into prose
  12. Take a story and turn it into a poem
  13. Read the news, create a fictional account of an event
  14. Alter your country's history
  15. Make the world understand a tyrant's reason for existing
  16. Create a new continent
  17. What would life be like if mild magic existed?
  18. Imagination is now a currency
  19. Write a religious text explaining the creation of the world
  20. Make a story based on a song
I'll be posting more of these so stay tuned for that, if you haven't checked the other post, you can see it here. Let's hope you can make a good story out of it. 

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