Creative Writing Prompt #6
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Have some fun with second person point-of-view. Take a character you’ve already written, or create a new one, and write a scene in the second person. Need some parameters? There is something in the character’s pocket s/he feels obliged to share but compelled to hide.
Creative Writing Prompt #5
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Your character is cleaning his/her clothing closet. Why? What is in it? What will be tossed, donated, kept? What item(s) should be tossed but will be kept instead? Why?
Creative Writing Prompt #4
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
What happens when your character learns a new skill? Write a scene in third-person point of view with your character and his/her instructor for the new skill. Want to learn more about your character? Re-write the scene in first-person point of view.
Creative Writing Prompt #3
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Prompt #3
Write a scene in first-person point of view in which the narrator is going to celebrate his/her best friend’s birthday at a hotel bar (I like to imagine the Driskill in Austin, but use whatever hotel bar you love). The narrator has never been to the bar before and has dressed inappropriately. The best friend cannot hide his/her dislike of the narrator’s gift. Make the most of the point of view, and be sure to keep the reader at the edge of the narrator’s understanding of the situations at hand.
Creative Writing Prompt #2
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Prompt #2
Write a scene with three characters in the first-person point of view. Two of the characters should confront the third about an action they believe s/he has taken that has caused some kind of damage. The third character is innocent of the action. Write the scene first using the third character as the narrator, then re-write it with one of the accusers as the narrator. How does the scene change?
Feeling ambitious? Write the same scene in third-person point of view. How does that change the scene?
Creative Writing Prompt #1
Each week, ORW will feature a new writing prompt meant to spark your creative juices. Use it to generate new fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, or apply the prompt to a current project. Even if you don’t create a scene that fits with your project, you may find that you’ve learned more about your story.
Prompt #1
Write a scene in third person point of view with two characters. One character has deceived the other about something important and is deciding whether to confess it. Pay particular attention to showing the emotions through the characters’ actions.
