Using creative writing prompts to inspire many forms of writing is a great way to inspire new ideas and direction in your creative journey. Many short stories, poetry and even novels have began as a writing prompt of some form or another, one of the most famous of these would be Mary Shelleys story of Frankenstien.
Mary Shelleys novel about the creation of life from the dead parts of different corpses was born out of a cold stormy night spent with Lord Byron. Who had suggested to a small group of writers that had gathered in the Villa Diodati one evening, that they try their hand at writing a ghost story .
In essence to write using a prompt given by someone else in a genre not to familiar to the young author. From this night of creative experimentation the now famous novel Frankenstien was born as was the story 'The Vampyre' written by John Polidori which would inspire the later story of Dracula written by Bram Stoker.
Writing prompts are not only to be used to break the dreaded writers block, but they can be an awesome tool to simply challenge ourselves and inspire new ideas . Why not try your hand at some of the writing prompts for poetry below. explore a genre that your not familiar with be it horror or romance or something entirely different. There are no wrong turns in our creative journey, only paths not yet travelled...
Mary Shelleys novel about the creation of life from the dead parts of different corpses was born out of a cold stormy night spent with Lord Byron. Who had suggested to a small group of writers that had gathered in the Villa Diodati one evening, that they try their hand at writing a ghost story .
In essence to write using a prompt given by someone else in a genre not to familiar to the young author. From this night of creative experimentation the now famous novel Frankenstien was born as was the story 'The Vampyre' written by John Polidori which would inspire the later story of Dracula written by Bram Stoker.
Writing prompts are not only to be used to break the dreaded writers block, but they can be an awesome tool to simply challenge ourselves and inspire new ideas . Why not try your hand at some of the writing prompts for poetry below. explore a genre that your not familiar with be it horror or romance or something entirely different. There are no wrong turns in our creative journey, only paths not yet travelled...
The themed writing prompt
Write a poem based on one of the following themes below
- Home
- Tombstone
- Stormy eyes
- Photo
- Love letter
- Next time
- Overgrown
- Little lies
- Tomorrow
- Perfect man
- Mama
- Titans
- Blue ribbon
- Washed up
- Ghosts
Write a poem or ballad inspired by the picture prompt above
