6 Websites with Great Writing Prompts
Then, the Australian stumped me with this question:
“I understand, mate. But what TOPICS should I write about?”
I’d been extolling the benefits of stream-of-consciousness writing with a new friend halfway across the world. I think I sounded like some kind of wizard.
“Start writing, and the ideas will flow!” I exclaimed, rubbing my magic crystal ball and straightening my aluminum foil hat.
Can I be honest with you? For me, that’s exactly how it works. I get 15 ideas by the time I hop out of the shower. The pour through my pores from every point of my awareness. Then, I write about one concept and come up with 6 more. This is the infinite ideas life.
But it wasn’t always that way.
There was I time I’d spend weeks without a single keystroke. “There’s nothing new to write,” I would say.
How silly.
Sometimes, you simply need a guide. Your creative block may not an issue of output, but of input. A single word or sentence at the right time can send you flying.
Here are the best prompt providers I’ve seen lately.
