25 Creative Writing Prompts

Do you ever want just want to write?

You just get that urge to see your ink make curves and lines on crisp paper, to make coherent, pretty, words, but nothing happens?

Writers block can be so very frustrating, and usually the best way to get over it is to just write something… build words to get over the block and then… of you go! Well, thats the theory anyway.

Or maybe you are just starting out on your writing journey and you need a little extra inspiration?

Perhaps you are shifting from non-fiction to prose or poetry and you want a few ideas to get you started?

Here is a quick list of creative writing prompts you can use to inspire your writing… they are non-prescriptive, fluid and open. You can use them however you wish.

1. Down the garden path
2. Look up
3. My heart was troubled
4. A blessing
5. Close the cover
6. Unbelievable
7. What’s going on?
8. Just wait
9. We are not dressed for the cold
10. Point to the sky
11. Dirt under nails
12. A calendar has a month missing
13. A pile of wrapped presents
14. Sleeping dogs
15. Something loved and lost
16. A metal butterfly
17. Daisy chains
18. I am still upset
19. Wild flowers
20. You will never see it again
21. Baking bread
22. A dream catcher
23. Holes in the wall
24. He sat beside you
25. Wind up radio

How will you use these prompts? What will you write?
Feel free to share anything you write…