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- Write a somber poem about clutter, trinkets, and broken things.
- Set a timer for three minutes to create a character or story premise. Develop the idea as much as possible in the limited time frame using whatever comes to mind in the moment.
- Write a short story from the perspective of water (in any phase or form).
- Go onto Google Earth and click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button to transport yourself to a random location on Earth. Use either the photos or description of this location to create a setting.
- Create a fable or myth that ends with an oddly specific moral or explanation about the world.
- Write a poem about a half-formed thought.
- Imagine if humans never forgot a single moment in their lives, from birth until death. Would this be a utopia or a dystopia? Write the story.
- Create a tense final scene of a drama, and then destroy the tension at the most climactic moment.
- Find a writing prompt or story starter (either on this list or elsewhere) that you consider to be generic or uninspiring, and now use it to make something exquisite.
- Compose a Minute Poem, a short rhyming poem with 60 total syllables.
- 3 stanzas, 20 syllables per stanza
- 4 lines per stanza (total of 12 lines)
- 8 syllables in the first line
- 4 syllables each in lines 2-4
- The rhyme scheme is aabb, ccdd, eeff.
- Strict iambic meter (every other syllable is stressed)
