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: 8 January 2010
- All About Me
- Blogtober Ideas
- Booking Through Thursday
- Cafe Writing
- Cheddar X
- Cool Bits Story Generator
- Create-a-Story
- 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
- Descriptive Prompts
- Dragon Writing Prompts
- Feath’s Bookcase
- The First Line
- The Friday Foofah!
- Friday 5
- Hatch’s Plot Bank
- Inspire Me Thursday
- It’s FridayQ
- Journaler’s Junction
- Journaling Prompts
- Journaling Tips
- Journal Jar
- Journal Prompts
- JournalSparks.com prompts for journal writing and memoir writing
- Journal Topics
- Journal Writing Prompts
- Journal Writing Prompts
- JulNoWriMo
- Left Brain Prompts
- Lorelle’s Blog Challenges
- Manic Mondays
- McSweeney’s
- monday madness
- Musing Mondays
- Oblique Strategies
- Once Written
- One Little Word
- one word. so little time.
- One Year of Writing and Healing
- Paragraph a Week
- Profitable Pen
- Prompt Generator
- Prompts Calendar
- The Prompt Writer
- Quick Plots
- Quick Story Idea Generator
- Random Acts of Journaling
- Random Inspiration, Prompts, and Critiques
- Randomness
- Random plot points
- Random Topics for Journal Entries
- Random Word Generator
- Right Brain Prompts
- Rum and Monkey_ Story Elements
- Saturday 9
- Scrapmojo
- Scribe Time
- 6+1 Traits
- Sunday Stealing
- The Teachers’ Corner
- Ten on Tuesday
- This is Me
- Thursday Thoughts
- Thursday Thunks
- TMI Tuesday
- Wake Up Writing
- Weekly Journal Exercises
- WeeklyJE
- Weekly Writes
- Write Out of Depression
- WritersDigest.com – Writing Prompts
- Writing Bugs
- Writing Fix: Random Daily Prompt Generator
- Writing the Journey
- 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:
- 2×5obsessions
- 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
