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The Many Benefits of Writing Prompts

9 ways that they can help you as a writer

JF Danskin
The Fiction Writer’s Den
6 min readAug 15, 2022

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Over recent weeks, I have been sharing a list of writing prompts every Monday. Most of the prompts are in themed lists, and you can find them all in the following list:

JF's writing prompts

39 stories
A child on a hilltop path, cartoon style
Dense, jungle leaves
A road across islands

In fact, I have shared over 100 prompts so far!

While I will publish more in the coming weeks, this felt like a good moment to take a breath, and to reflect on what writing prompts are for. To think about how and why to use them, and how we can find our own sources of inspiration.

In doing so, I’ve come up with the following 9 ways that writing prompts can help you as a writer.

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1. Prompts don’t tell you what to write — they spark your own creativity

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JF Danskin
The Fiction Writer’s Den

Writing fiction (fantasy especially) and poetry, enthusiast for creativity, collaboration, community. An Editor at the Fiction Writer's Den.