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20 Writing Prompts

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12 December 2016

By Bronwen

If you’re struggling with writer’s block or just want to do something creative but can’t get started, a great way to spark your imagination is to make use of what we call “writing prompts”. A writing prompt can be a sentence or even a word that begins a story. Here are twenty prompts to help with your writing.

  1. I thought I could trust my best friend. That was until about an hour ago.
  2. “That will be £700,” grunted the voice behind the door, sliding the package through the hatch.
  3. “You’re a hypocrite!” “Really? Don’t you remember what you did last year?”
  4. I always thought school cafeteria food was the worst. That was until I tried this jail food.
  5. I can’t keep on trying to save him.
  6. “So we meet again. What would you put it down to? Fate? Destiny?”
  7. “Calm down! Now! They’ll hear you!”
  8. From the corner of my eye, I saw the bartender slip something into the punch bowl. The Agency must have sent him too.
  9. “Hey. Can I offer you-” “-I already have one.” “Well you can’t possibly have one. These are the only five in the world.”
  10. “Grab your gun. Now, on the count of three, we’ll go in. 3… 2… 1… Go!”
  11. I have always been a bad tempered person, but this time, I knew I’d gone too far.
  12. After five hours, he finally returned. Over his shoulder was an axe. I knew immediately where he’d been.
  13. “I’m really regretting putting you in charge.”
  14. “Do we know each other?” “No. But I don’t doubt that we know all about each other”
  15. “What the hell is that?! It’s moving!” “Don’t be silly, it’s just a shadow. Wait… RUN!”
  16. My parents came running into the room. “Oh my god, what did you do?”
  17. I have to tell her. I have to tell her or else I’m going to go mad.
  18. I can’t go back there. Not if I want to live.
  19. He stood in front of the mirror and noticed something strange about his reflection. Had that always been there?
  20. “Tell me. Do you still love her?”

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