Writing Prompt Sites

@sunnflr (2767)
United States
September 30, 2008 1:47pm CST
I've added some more stuff to my new blog. It's nice having one specifically for my writing. Doing the writing prompts with other people is cool also. Do any of y'all do writing prompts? I am doing Weekend Wordsmith, 100 Words, 1000 Word Meme, and Simply Snickers so far. Do y'all know of any other good prompt sites?
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@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
30 Sep 08
This is a website I have used quite often: http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/ I have also heard of something called "The Creative Writing Portal" or somethingn like that. I know the word 'portal' is in the title. It is a website with prompts. There are also some good books - A Writer's Book of Days by Judy Reeves, and A Writer's Book of Matches. I am a member of a writing group so I work from prompts all the time. At every session we are given prompts to write from. Some are book titles, song titles, the beginning of a sentence, objects or photos. My current novel is written from many prompts. The novel started with a couple of prompts I had written from. Then when given prompts in the future I kept my novel in mind when writing. I had to puzzle together all these little jottings to create a whole novel. It was not easy, and of course I had to make a lot of revisions, but it worked and I love the story. Now if I can wrap my head around editing to polish the final product and get it out there, I will be a happy camper.
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@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
30 Sep 08
That website will lead you to other writing prompt websites. Good luck with your blog.
@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
30 Sep 08
Thank you. I saved the site and will look into it further soon. Good luck with your novel!
@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
30 Sep 08
Very cool about your novel using the writing prompts! I'll have to check that site out, thanks. I want to keep enough stuff on my new blog so people will keep coming back. I love hearing what others think of my stories and poems. It's always great to get feedback.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
30 Sep 08
I don't even have a clue what a writing prompt is, so I guess I don't do it, nor do I know any sites! Clue me in - is this something I should know? Something I should do?
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
30 Sep 08
The owner of the site will write a word, sentence, quote, or put a picture up. Then the rest of us use that as inspiration to write a poem or story. We all link back to the original site and then read each other's work. It's a way to boost page views for blogs and get your work read by other people. I think it's fun.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
30 Sep 08
Oh wow, that sounds interesting. I'd love to see examples if you have any, and I'd definitely be interested in starting something like that myself.
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
30 Sep 08
This is one of the ones from the 1000 words meme. The picture showed an empty swing in the playground. I named my story Playground Dreams. (note for mylot staff)This is my story...I wrote it, please don't delete it! The clock was stuck at 1:55. Charles was sure of it. He’d been staring outside at the playground for hours, but the clock hadn’t changed. He really wanted to go outside and play. School work was boring! “Charles, are you finished with your paper?” Mrs. Sutton asked. “Yes Ma’am. I finished it a long time ago. When can we go outside?” “At 2:00, the same time we go for recess every day.” “Is the clock broken, Mrs. Sutton?” “No, Charles, the clock isn’t broken; just like it wasn’t broken yesterday or the day before. Just be patient.” Mrs. Sutton sighed. Charles wasn’t good at being patient. He wanted to play now. He didn’t understand why the other kids couldn’t get done faster. If they did he was sure Mrs. Sutton would take them outside earlier. “Hurry up, Terry, I wanna go outside,” Charles said to the friend sitting in front of him. “Charles, that’s enough. Quit bugging people. If you disrupt the class one more time I’ll have to send you to the principal’s office.” Mrs. Sutton warned. Charles sat back in his desk and crossed his arms. He didn’t want to go to the principal’s office again. His parents didn’t like that at all. He’d just have to wait on all the slow pokes to finish. Hopefully tomorrow they’d be faster. *** The next day when Charles got to class he saw that the clock was missing. He knew it was broken! Mrs. Sutton must have taken it down to fix it. “Mrs. Sutton, when will the clock be fixed?” Charles asked. “The clock is not broken, Charles, I told you that.” Mrs. Sutton replied. “Where is it then?” “I took it down. Now you will just have to wait until I say it’s time to go outside.” Charles didn’t like this at all. It’s not fair to take the clock down! He needed to know how long he had to wait. He would be sitting here forever now! “Ok, Charles, quit brooding and do your assignment.” Mrs. Sutton ordered. “Yes Ma’am.” The next thing Charles knew, Mrs. Sutton was standing up and saying it was time for recess. Charles couldn’t believe it. He knew that stupid clock had been broken. He hadn’t even finished his assignment today, and he always got done before 2:00 according to the clock. He should know, he looked at it often enough. Now he’d get an even worse grade! Copyright 2008 Angel Sharum
@PearlGrace (3171)
• United States
1 Oct 08
It sounds like you're working pretty hard on this new writing blog. I don't hardly ever do writing prompts. Helium has one area of their "Community" that has writing prompts, so I very occasionally chime in on those. I don't know of any other writing websites.
@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
1 Oct 08
You know, I forgot Helium had creative writing! I could use some of there stuff and then put it on my site. Thanks for the reminder.
@bumba1988 (1220)
• India
30 Sep 08
Thanks for letting me know about such sites.I never heard of these sites and may be this is a good way to boost my page views.............
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
30 Sep 08
I don't know how much it will help, but some. Especially if you write stuff that people really likes. And that is always the objective!
• United States
30 Sep 08
I don't really research too many writing sites, I don't want to spread myself too thin. I stick with the few I'm with right now, you go supergirl!
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
30 Sep 08
Well, these are mostly for personal enjoyment. The prompts are all for my blog that has my writing on it. I like to keep writing so I remember what I'm supposed to do as far as dialog and all goes.
@calajane (1003)
• Poland
2 Oct 08
Have you ever tried Random Promt Generators? I like them quite a bit Two of them (which I use the most) are linked at http://allwrittendown.wordpress.com As for other promts, I sometimes respond to picture prompts or one word prompts... I like to have a lot of space for creativity.
@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
2 Oct 08
No, I haven't tried those. I will certainly check it out. I want to try and keep alot of content on this blog so people will keep coming back!
@shell94 (990)
• Canada
30 Sep 08
I had never heard of such a thing until I read your post. It does sound like alot of fun and be exciting to have others read my work and give some constructive criticism. Thanks for the tip hun!!!!
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
30 Sep 08
You are welcome. If you use some of the sites I mentioned be sure to let me know. I try to read everyone else's stuff each week.