For some writers, the hardest thing to do, is come up with something to write about. A prompt is a starting point that helps your brain start moving and shaking. Let’s discover prompts together and if moved to do so, share your work in the Reply box below.

1. Since it’s nearly Christmas, describe your most memorable Christmas event. Was it the tree, presents, visiting Santa, singing hymns in Church? What is it about this memory that stands out over all the others?
2. It’s nearly the end of 2024 and we’ll be ringing in the New Year of 2025. Do you make resolutions? Why or why not? Are they practical and goal oriented resolutions? A dream (go on a trip, buy a nw car) resolution? Do you make a writing resolution? Complete a chapter, an outline, a synopsis, your book? All are good resolutions. 
3. What would you tell your future self to be aware of for 2025?
4. Describe a situation at which you were the coldest you’ve ever been in your life, during the winter.
5. What was your favorite birthday and why? Who was there? Did you have a party?  Be very specific about what made it so special.
6. You go on a nature walk with your significant other. Your partner is an extreme flower lover and goes into all the details about every plant you stumble upon. What is your reaction?
7. The leaves on all the trees have changed color and begun to fall all-around town. How does this multi-colored landscape make you feel?
8. Describe your first school crush or your first school significant other. What was it like? How did you feel walking around the school and possibly having people talk about you? Feel free to talk about the entire relationship?
9. What is your most poignant childhood memory? The one that sticks out the most. Write out as much as you can remember and then fill in the details with elaborate description.
10. It seems like when you are a kid growing up you can’t wait to get there and when you are a grownup you wish you could be back. Imagine one day in which you are granted adulthood as a child and one day in which you are granted childhood as an adult. How do you utilize these 24 hour periods?
11. Talk about a class and a professor that really changed your life. It may have been the professor that you went to see every week during office hours or it may have just been a lecturer that you never even interacted with. Detail why this made such an impact on you.
12. What would be the perfect “last dance” song to you? Which song could you see yourself remembering for the ret of your life for “good reasons?” Talk about how your dance with the love of your life would have been with that song playing.
13. You have been given the power to re-write your own prom experiences to be absolutely perfect. From the pre-picture section to the after-party. What is your ideal prom?
14. Create a character that experienced his parents’ divorce at a very young age. How has this affected his or her true issues and how the character feels about love as he or she has grown up?
15. It’s tough not to gossip a little. Which two celebrities do you think will get a divorce next? You can always read the latest trashy tabloid to get some ideas! 🙂
16. What is the worst vacation you’ve ever been on? What fights occurred, how lost did you get, how much money did you lose, etc? Pose a hypothetical of the trip going perfectly and see what major things would have changed.
17. Create a story in which you are in a foreign country in which you don’t speak the language … and you’ve lost all of your belongings (cash included). How do you deal with this situation?
18. You have been granted the ability to fly! I mean, like Superman! Where do you travel with this newfound ability now that you don’t need to save up frequent flyer miles?
19. Write about the biggest regret you’ve had in your entire life. What led up to this occurring and what was the aftermath? What have you learned from this situation and how have you applied it to what you do now?
20. You have been given one last day with the “one that got away.” What do you do with this time, what do you say, and what do you do? You only have this one last chance, so make it count.
21. What is your earliest childhood memory? What do you think was going on around your memory that you don’t quite remember? Would you have changed this memory if you could?
22. You and a significant other are recounting the story of how you met to a couple of friends. How do your stories differ and explain why you think is.
23. You have to do with a parent who is suffering who is suffering through Alzheimer’s disease. What do you do to preserve that ailing memory of your mom or dad and how do deal with the emotions that you’re experiencing?
24. If you could fast forward ahead or rewind backwards to any point in your life, what would it be and why? be very detailed about how you deal with this second chance or sneak peak.
25. They say timing is everything. How would your life change if you had perfect timing? You’d always say and do things at exactly the perfect time without fail. How will things improve for you? Be specific.