Writing Prompt Websites
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: 25 August 2010
- 999 Ideas – poems
- 999 Ideas – random stories
- 999 Ideas – short stories
- All About Me
- Blogtober Ideas
- Booking Through Thursday
- Bright Ideas for Writing
- Build Creative Writing Ideas
- Cafe Writing
- Cheddar X
- Cool Bits Story Generator
- Create-a-Story
- Creative Writing Ideas and Prompts
- Creative Therapy
- creative writing prompts . com ideas for writers
- Creativity Portal
- Daily Journal Writing Prompts
- The Daily Meme
- Daily Writing Ideas
- The Dares
- Daydreaming on Paper
- Dragon Writing Prompts
- Education World
- Fairy tale journal prompts
- Farm Lane Books
- Feath’s Bookcase
- The First Line
- Friday Fill Ins
- The Friday Foofah!
- Friday 5
- Hatch’s Plot Bank
- Inspire Me Thursday
- It’s FridayQ
- Journaler’s Junction
- Journaling Prompts
- Journaling Tips
- Journal Jar
- JournalSparks.com prompts for journal writing and memoir writing
- Journal Topics
- Journal Writing Prompts
- JulNoWriMo
- Left Brain Prompts
- Lorelle’s Blog Challenges
- Mama’s Losin’ It
- Manic Mondays
- McSweeney’s
- monday madness
- Monday Movie Meme
- Musing Mondays
- Oblique Strategies
- Of Spirit
- Once Written
- One Little Word
- one word. so little time.
- One Year of Writing and Healing
- Paragraph a Week
- A Passion for Letter Writing
- Profitable Pen
- Prompt Generator
- Prompts Calendar
- The Prompt Writer
- 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
- Rhomany’s Realm Art Journal Prompts
- Right Brain Prompts
- Rum and Monkey_ Story Elements
- Saturday 9
- Scrapmojo
- Scribe Time
- 6+1 Traits
- Slideshare
- Squidoo Lens Idea Generator
- Squidoo – 49 Ideas for Awesome Lenses
- Story a Day
- Sunday Stealing
- The Teachers’ Corner
- Ten on Tuesday
- This is Me
- Thursday Thoughts
- Thursday Thunks
- TMI Tuesday
- Trevor’s Writing
- Wake Up Writing
- Weekly Geeks
- Weekly Journal Exercises
- WeeklyJE
- Weekly Writes
- Write Any Genre
- Write on Wednesday
- Write Out of Depression
- WritersDigest.com – Writing Prompts
- 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 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
- writing_prompts
- writingprompts
- yourstories
