Penny for Your Prompts

I know we've had forums to post writing prompts before, but it doesn't look like anyone has used those in years. So I decided to make a new one. If no one uses it, that's fine, but if people do use it, great!

This is where you go if you have writer's block and would like a prompt, if you have a story idea but don't think you can go anywhere with it, or if you just have some fun prompts to post or want to write a new story but don't know where to start.

A few rules:

1. Prompts can consist of summaries of ideas, snippets of poetry to get someone inspired, dialogue, paragraphs, activities to do (eg. take a book, flip to a random page, and write a story based on the fifth word on that page,) lists to continue, and anything else you can think of! (Extra points for creativity! : D )

2. Remember to follow these rules: https://www.youngwriterssociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=402&t=3k https://www.youngwriterssociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=402&t=98161 Any prompts that do not follow the YWS rules will be reported and removed.

3. Please refrain from posting topics that may contain content that is inappropriate for younger writers. If you really need to put swears in your prompt, put them in asterisks.

4. You can only post a prompt twice per day, and you are limited to only reply with a post with five prompts in it at once. (example with prompts will be posted below)

5. No picture/image/video prompts, please. Only words.

6. If you write something for one of the prompts posted here and then decide to publish it on this site, please include a line at the top of your work before publishing that says something like: Inspired by [insert username here] and include the username of whoever came up with that prompt.

6 1/2. You can also just write a story for one of these prompts in a blog post or something, and then leave a link to it (with a tag of the username of whoever suggested the prompt) in this thread.

Now get creating!

(^v^)

First example prompts:

1. Take two famous authors, (eg. Mary Shelley & J.R.R. Tolkien,) and have them meet at a book signing. Describe what each author thinks of the other’s work.
2. The yellow tennis ball
   sits in the middle of the court,
   neon in the sun.
3. "Why don’t you ever listen to me?”
   “I try, but you don’t listen to me!”
   “But you really should have listened to me about this one. Cats don’t belong in butter!”
4. In 750 words, write a short story about a crystal and mineral laboratory and how its latest experiment went terribly wrong.
5. To do:
   
   • Take out the trash.
   • Fill the car with gas.
   • Drop off muffins at Mandy’s.
   • Get the latest assignment from Death.
   • Complete that assignment.
   • Return home and wash the windows.

1. Write a poem about rain, a water bottle, an excitable puppy, a potted plant, and a katydid (bush crickets).

2. Describe whatever is directly in front of you, (be it a room, person, animal, view, etc,) solely in colors and other adjectives. Make up colors if you have to!

3. If an apple came to life like a human, what would its favorite season be? Favorite color? Favorite hobby?

4. If walls could talk, what would they say?

5. Ask someone for an animal. Ask another person for an adjective. Ask yet another person for an activity. Combine those things to write a story!

1. Describe flowers growing in an unusual place.

2. The beginning of your poem/story takes place at the bottom of a staircase. The ending takes place at the top.

3. Write a poem based on a genre of fiction, or write fiction based on a form of poetry.

1. Think about the object that is most sentimental to you. Write about your discovery of it being magical.

2. Write about something sad using an object that's associated with happiness.

3. Two friends start to drift off and the reason is one you would expect. Now, make this same reason look unexpected.

1.) At a very young age, a person was cursed to be invisible. They live their entire life not knowing what they look like. One day, they meet someone who can see them

2.) A ghost that is oblivious to the fact that they’re dead.

3.) A ghost who died a long time ago meets a ghost who died recently

1. Write a story that takes place on a planet made not of rocks/dirt/molten rocks, but of wood

2. Write a dystopian story where everyone is required to watch a 24 hour brainwashing/propaganda movie every other Tuesday and they are led to believe that they can't look away from the screen or they'll be punished, but a group of teens sneak out and discover what the government is actually doing in those 24 hour periods of time.

3. The cat stretched out her golden paws to catch the sunlight.

4. "I. Love. Tyler! Why can't you understand that?"

5. Little did they know that eating that avocado while simultaneously playing a racing video game would end the world.

Write a story about plants that are sentient, while animals and humans are more like plants and aren't sentient!

1. The carpet had a strange color.
2. The ruler is an arrogant 14-year-old kid.
3. "There is something wrong with this park..."
4. "Have you seen my wallet? I probably forgot it in that dragon´s nest..."
5. There is an old house at the end of newest street in town. No one remembers, since when it´s there, except for your main character.

1. Shark plushie on shelf
2. Describe your favorite book without telling its name or naming any characters
3. Describe last food you ate as it was the best meal in universe

1. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
2. First snow is spiralling to the ground. It’s middle of July.
3. Green mug on shelf full of blue ones
4. Number 4 dissapeared from world.

Coffee shop called Einstein Coffee

Write something told from the point of view of the monsters that hide in the dark