Creative Writing Prompts for the Summer || Blog Post #1

Prompt List:

1. Come up with a poem about an object/thing that describes you or another/made up person. (Use analogies, similes, metaphors, etc.)
2. Write an intense short story about an empty class
3. Take a picture of a person from a magazine and write their made up life story
4. Begin a story with “There was once a chance I didn’t take…”
5. Choose a poem you like. Take the last line of it and use it as the first line in your own poem.
6. Write a story through the perspective of someone who suffers from a serious illness.
7. A drunk man sits next to you in a bar, thinks you’re his “buddy” and starts confessing “the truth”. Write a short story about this.
8. Re-write a fairy tale that didn’t go the way it was supposed to (Ex: Cinderella didn't drop her shoe or never had a fairy godmother)
9. Begin a poem with “I thought I saw…”
10. List 3 things you can find at a hospital and write a short story about them in a setting that’s not in a hospital or near one.
11. Begin a poem with “ I wish someone told me…”
12. Write a short story about a day in the life of a window washer using only his/her inner thoughts