[If you go to Craigslist, there is a “Missed Connections” section where you can find some interesting story lines to inspire your writing.] Really? The prompt is to…go to another site for a prompt? Well, f*** you! I’ll write something random, then! …… Dorris was quite sick of marching through neglected dirt paths, endlessly swinging his saber in front of …

[Write about someone you admire and you thought to have had a beautiful mind.]             Oh, what a wonderful prompt! To be asked to write about another’s mind, a topic so sublime! But I bet you didn’t think I’d write about mine!             Here’s the thing: I always believe I’m a great deal more intelligent than I was the year …

[Hey, even writers and creative artists have to do homework sometimes. Write about doing laundry, dishes, and other cleaning activities.]                         For as powerful as I may be, those are battles I never want to fight. Most of my foes might be physically weak, but their attacks all affect the mind, a part of me I find very difficult …

[Open up a dictionary to a random word. Define what that word means to you.]                         Didn’t feel like opening a dictionary, so I pulled up a random word generator. The word is “hour”. Oh, I’m also not going to “define what it means to me”, instead I’ll write a fantasy scenario.             [EDIT: LOL, I completely forgot that …

[Everyone’s addicted to something in some shape or form. What are things you can’t go without?]             I’m sure there’s more than just this, but from the top of my head:             Minecraft—Sometimes I just need to immerse myself in the blocky game, either building in a survival world or kicking ass on an arcade server.             Overwatch—Sometimes I just …

[Create a poem, short story, or journal entry about a conversation you’ve overheard.] I know of the perfect story for this! It’ll be really short, but here goes: Twas the end of the first semester (of school) last year, and as it was one of the very last days of class before classes changed, there were very few students at …

[Write a poem or story using words from a famous letter or inspired by a letter someone sent you.] I remember a time when my mother forced me and my siblings to exchange letters with a family friend when we were young…so I’ll write something related. …… Yawning, Faebyen put pen to paper, writing the usual pleasantries about having had …

[Read a book and circle some words on a page. Use those words to craft a poem. Alternatively, you can cut out words and phrases from magazines.] Ha ha ha! Joke’s on you, whoever wrote these prompts for thinkwritten.com! I’ll take words from the prompt! Specifically: craft and cut! I swear it’s a coincidence that they both start with “c”. …

[Write a story or poem that starts with the word “hello” or other greeting.] Hello, Was what he told me, His smile I, couldn’t tell was phony. Cute, He said was I, Successfully flattering me, Not knowing it was a lie. His goal, To sell a membership, This lonely one, Understood as courtship. There I went, For quite a while, …

[Envision a dragon. Do you battle him? Or is the dragon friendly? Use descriptive language.] Haha! Dragons! I already wrote about them (and have more on a Word document): https://www.w***********/book/13151961605879105/Planet-Dragunity https://www.moonquill.com/book/189 But I’ll still write something new. …… Still as a placid lake, a little boy crouched in a bush, intensely focused on the animal before him. Multiple times did …