FREE writing prompts to get you writing and keep you writing!
New prompts will be added weekly. Feel free to use in any way you like.
Here we have some story starts and story ends for you. You can pick and mix, or just stick to one.
- start a story with a uninvited guest
- start a story with a neighbourhood row
- start a story with a car crash
- start a story with a fall down the stairs
- start a story with a sinister phone call
- start a story with a door creaking open
- start a story with someone crying
- start a story with wet feet
- start a story with a bang to the head
- end a story with an explosion
- end a story with a tree falling
- end a story with a slammed window
- end a story with a broken chair
- end a story with spilled milk
- end a story with an unusual pet
- end a story with a howl of pain
- end a story with a masked figure
- end a story with a power cut
FREEWRITING prompts
Free-writing, sometimes known as wild-writing, is a terrific writing tool for many reasons! It can wake up your brain and get the writing muscles working. It can help generate ideas. It aids you in rejecting too much perfectionism in your writing at the first draft stage and it is fantastic for mental health – allowing you to offload and release your thoughts, feelings and emotions. Write without rules and allow the words to flow!
- In my dreams I…
- I am NOT…
- I just need to say that…
- If you think you know me…
