These sites contain prompts, sparks, challenges, and ideas for both creative and journal writing. If you know of another really great site, please let me know.
Last Updated: 11 April 2013
- 100 Blog Topics I Hope You Write
- 100 Colors, 100 Writings, 100 Days
- 100 Ideas
- 101 Ways to Brew up a Great Idea
- 10 Great Journal Ideas for Kids
- 10 Ways to Start a Blog Post
- 12 Great Things Every Handmade Artist Should Blog About
- 25 Unique Places to Find Story Ideas
- 30 Days of Creativity
- 30 Days of Lists
- 36 Dramatic Situations
- 999 Ideas – poems
- 999 Ideas – random stories
- 999 Ideas – short stories
- All About Me
- Angelia’s Art Journals
- Best Creative Writing Exercises
- Blogtober Ideas
- Booking Through Thursday
- Bright Ideas for Writing
- Build Creative Writing Ideas
- Cafe Writing
- Cheddar X
- Cool Bits Story Generator
- Create-a-Story
- Create Write Now
- Creative Writing Ideas and Prompts
- Creative Writing Prompts
- Creative Therapy
- creative writing prompts . com ideas for writers
- Creativity Portal
- Create Write Now
- Daily Journal Writing Prompts
- Daily Writing Prompt
- The Daily Meme
- Daily Writing Ideas
- Daisy Yellow
- The Dares
- Daydreaming on Paper
- Doodle Daily Life
- Dragon Writing Prompts
- Easy Street Prompts
- Expressive Art Journal Prompts
- Fairy tale journal prompts
- Farm Lane Books
- Fearless Art Journaling – Prompts
- Feath’s Bookcase
- Fill in the Blank Friday
- The First Line
- Freeology
- Friday Fill Ins
- The Friday Foofah!
- Friday 5
- Grace is Overrated
- Green Isles Crafts
- Hatch’s Plot Bank
- Hoo Are You Tuesdays
- Ideas for Creative Blogging
- Inspire Me Thursday
- Journal Craft Inspiration
- Journaler’s Junction
- Journal For You
- Journal Girl
- Journaling Prompts
- Journaling Saves
- Journaling Tips
- Journal Jar
- JournalSparks.com prompts for journal writing and memoir writing
- Journal Topics
- Journal Writing Prompts
- JulNoWriMo
- Language is a Virus
- Left Brain Prompts
- Lorelle’s Blog Challenges
- Mama’s Losin’ It
- McSweeney’s
- monday madness
- Monday Movie Meme
- Musing Mondays
- NaBloPoMo Writing Prompts
- National Journal Writing Month
- Oblique Strategies
- Of Spirit
- Once Written
- One Little Word
- one word. so little time.
- One Year of Writing and Healing
- Open Road Writing
- Paragraph a Week
- A Passion for Letter Writing
- The Planet You
- Plot Twist Generator
- Prompt Generator
- Prompts Calendar
- The Prompt Writer
- Proppian Fairy Tale Generator
- Quadrivial Quandary
- Quick Plots
- Quick Story Idea Generator
- Random Acts of Journaling
- Random Inspiration, Prompts, and Critiques
- Random plot points
- Random Topics for Journal Entries
- Random Word Generator
- reverb10
- Rhomany’s Realm Art Journal Prompts
- Right Brain Prompts
- Rum and Monkey Story Elements
- Saturday 9
- Scribe Time
- 6+1 Traits
- Slideshare
- Soul Journaling
- Story a Day
- The Story Starter
- Strangling My Muse
- Summer Journal Ideas
- Sunday Scribblings
- Sunday Stealing
- Tarot Journaling Prompts
- The Teachers’ Corner
- Ten on Tuesday
- This is Me
- Thursday Thoughts
- Thursday Thunks
- TMI Tuesday
- Trevor’s Writing
- The Warm Milk Journal
- Weekly Geeks
- Weekly Journal Exercises
- WeeklyJE
- Weekly Writes
- Write Any Genre
- Write For Ten
- Write on Wednesday
- Write Out of Depression
- WritersDigest.com – Writing Prompts
- Writer’s Exercise Generator
- Writing Fix: Random Daily Prompt Generator
- Writing Forward
- Writing the Journey
- Writing Prompts and Story Starters
- Writing Prompts for Middle School
- Writing Prompts_Journal Topics
- Writing Through Life
- Writing Topics
LiveJournal Prompt Communities (you don’t have to be a community member – or even a LJ user – to read most of the prompts)
one-word prompts:
- 100_prompts
- 10_words
- 15minuteficlets
- 600seconds
- a_thousandwords
- daily15
- same_oh
- thewordoftheday
- two_word_poetry
- wordoftheday
- wordspy
- wotd
- wordoftheday100
one-line prompts:
- 2x5obsessions
- 7spells
- _oneliners
- _writeaboutnow
- dailychronicles
- daily_fic
- dailyparagraph
- eotd
- excuse_me___
- key_phrase_fics
- lightning_fic
- linebyline
- muse_treats
- museteasers
- prompt_a_day
- quote_ficlets
- storyseeds
- thefirstline
- writers_almanac
detailed prompts:
- 30minutemuse
- 400words
- adoptaplot
- The Alternative Friday Five
- beatspirit
- embodiment
- fictionhaven
- flydayfyve’s Journal
- Friday Fiver
- heart_on
- ideagarden
- inspire2journal
- journaleers
- litterati
- Monday’s a Bitch
- musemuggers
- pretend_writer
- prompt
- promptomatic
- quillandink
- start_writing
- stayintheroom
- T. G. I. F. !
- the_bwg
- the_pen_pwnz
- the friday five
- wackyfics
- wprus
- writing_101
- write_on_this
- writingprompts
- yourstories
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