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10 Writing Prompts
A set of brilliant writing prompts for your creative stories
Sparking an idea for a story or poem isn’t easy.
Perhaps you feel like you’re drawing a blank, and that no matter how much you stare at a page, nothing is happening for you.
Strangely, researchers know that creativity comes more easily when you narrow down the options, rather than opening them up. Limiting the problem space and narrowing down the options makes it easier to visualise possible solutions.
And this gets your brain working, activating past memories and helping you to link ideas together in creative ways.
This is where writing prompts come in. They don’t provide a story idea, but give you a starting point. They help you to get into a creative frame of mind. It might only be enough to write a scene, but who knows — it could lead to much more.
The image, idea or emotion in the writing prompt can be enough to kickstart your creative thinking.
Here are ten to get you started.
Idea 1
A character is knocked out of their usual routine when they arrive at work, only to find their workplace…
