Prompts

The following are some prompts for writing. If it’s whited out, we’ve done it already.

Feel free to comment with more prompts no matter how old this post is.


1. Create a story inspired by the line in an ee cummings poem: "the weak noise of her eyes easily files my impatience to an edge"

2. Write about 15 minutes on the downfall of love.

3. Write a pure dialogue story. Make your story move along by using ONLY dialogue. No narration or description, only dialogue.

4. Write about an event in your life that seemed bad but turned out to be good.

5. What do you hope to accomplish within the next ten years? Explain.

6. Do you think that you have the qualifications of a good parent? Discuss.

7. If you were guaranteed a steadily improving standard of living (in terms of buying power, free time, quality of goods and services, etc.), would you be willing to give up your right to vote? Explain.

8. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

9. “It is as difficult to start things as it is to finish things.”

10. “All art is an imitation of nature.” —Seneca, Roman philosopher, c. 4 B.C.–A.D. 65

11. The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. -Mary Heaton Vorse

12. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.-Thomas Szasz

13. What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.- Susan Sontag

14. A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.-Friedrich Nietzsche

15. A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.- Elbert Hubbard

16. When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young. -Anonymous