- Write a story inspired by a favorite song, using specific lyrics, ideas, or the mood.
- Contrapuntal poems combine two (or more) separate poems by alternating lines from both poems to create a single cohesive poem.
- Capture a quiet, autumn evening.
- Write a poem that features the colors black and gold in some way.
- Write something meaningful about a topic that you don’t know anything about.
- Loud noises keep waking you up as you try to fall asleep, but try as you might, you can’t figure out what’s making the sound…
- Write a poem or short story that ends where it begins.
- The first line of the story is: It was the best (and worst) idea I’d ever had.
- Write a short story using the following words: rhetorical, jelly, abracadabra.
- Write about something in an unexpected environment (ex. snakes in outer space, lawn chairs set up in a crunched closet).