Monday, December 27, 2010

Daily writing prompts for the first week of January

Using creative writing prompts is a fantastic way to expand and explore your creativity, opening up new ideas and helping fire up the inner muse. So for every week of the coming year I will be posting a list of daily writing prompts, from story starters, theme ideas and my all-time favourite picture prompts.  So please take your time and browse over these writing prompts and if you have any feedback or suggestions please leave a comment as I would love to hear your thoughts about these pages. Happy writing

Creative writing prompts for the 1st of January
Choose one of the following writing prompts
Story starters
Write a short story of no less than 750 words, using one of the opening sentences below
It was all, my fault…
The bag was full…
Theme
Write a poem or a short story of at least 750 words, based on one of the themes below
Grandma’s secret
Obsession

Write a poem based by the above pciture prompt






Creative writing prompts for the 2nd of January
 Choose one of the following writing prompts
Story starters
Write a short story of no less than 750 words, using one of the opening sentences below
The car tyres screeched…
The carpet stank…
Theme
Write a poem or short story of at least 750 words, based on one of the themes below
Devil’s tango
Broken dice


Write a short story based on the above picture prompt




Creative writng prompts for the 3rd of January
Choose one of the following writing prompts
Daily story starters
Write a short horror story of no less than 750 words, using the opening sentence below
The baby was crying again…
Or Write a short story of no less than 750 words, using  the opening sentence below
The crowd roared…

Writing theme
Write a poem or short story of at least 750 words, based on one of the themes below
Miles to go
Overrun


Write a poem inspired by the above picture prompt



Daily writing prompts for the 4th of January
Choose one of the following writing prompts
Story starters
Write a short romance story of no less than 750 words, using the opening sentence below
He was never late…
Or Write a short story of no less than 750 words, using  the opening sentence below
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard…

Writing theme
Write a poem or short story of at least 750 words, based on one of the themes below
Lost
Dead heart

Write a forbidden love story based in the setting of the above
picture prompt


Daily creative writing prompts for the 5th of January
Choose one of the following writing prompts
Story starters
Write a short story of no less than 750 words, using one of the opening sentences below
The theme park was in lockdown…
I once loved him…

Writing theme
Write a poem or short story of at least 750 words, based on one of the themes below
Forbidden laughter
Old tree


Write a poem based on the picture prompt above



Daily creative writing prompt for the 6th of January
Choose one of the following writing prompts
Story starters
Write a short story of no less than 750 words, using one of the opening sentences below
It was finally time …
The car was gone…

Writing theme
Write a poem or short story of at least 750 words, based on one of the themes below
Blue eyes
Vengeance
Write a short horror story inspired by the picture prompt above

Daily creative writing prompt for the 7th of January
Choose one of the following writing prompts
Story starters
Write a short story of no less than 750 words, using one of the opening sentences below
Mondays are always the worst…
It just wasn’t right…

Writing theme
Write a poem or short story of at least 750 words, based on one of the themes below
Dead bugs
Returning

Write a short story or a poem based on the above picture prompt


Check out more writing prompts for January

Daily writing prompts for the second week of january

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