Tuesday 25 December 2012

Boost Your Creativity with these Creative Writing Prompts

By Ronald Wilson


Writing creatively is a good way to communicate yourself and get in touch with fictional characters and events. Numerous people have the wish to write creatively for either fun or profit, but how can we improve at being creative? Sometimes we open up to the blank page and instantly suffer writer's block.

The next time this happens to you, think about how much easier things would be if you had a rundown of creative writing exercises in order to get you through-- a practical list of things that can kindle your imagination, and generate suggestions when you most need them.

Imaginative writing prompts are used anywhere and anytime. They could be used repeatedly, or they might be adapted and modified to prompt new ideas. The most effective aspect of creative writing prompts is that they might be as crazy or as sensible as you like, they are just a way of opening your creative mind to more possibilities.

Take the sentence and finish it off, then continue writing for 200 words without thinking about it. Just write the very first thing that come to mind and see where it takes you. So, save these creative writing exercises to your desktop, or print them out and put them up at your writing desk, so you have no more excuses not to write! These are prompts which serve as story starters.

1. I bent down to pick up my purse when I heard the ripping sound ...

2. The noise of the siren approaching was overbearing. I checked my rear vision mirror and saw...

3. The traffic reached a standstill, I turned to the car beside me and giggled when I saw ...

4. I saw four or five teenagers running to the saw, so I called out to them...

5. It was rare that the weather forecast would be correct, but that day I never expected...

6. The three inch burn mark on my arm was caused when I was a child ...

7. Once I'd turned the water off in the shower, I realised there were no towels in the bathroom...

8. Entering the dark room, I switched on my torch, but nothing happened...

9. Entering the bakery that morning in the sweats I'd slept in, I never thought I wouldn't return for another 3 hours...

10. The noise in the tree got my interest. I looked up, then jumped, as I saw ...

11. The breeze blew the cap off my head, and into the hand of a strange looking gentleman...

12. When I'd requested to have the piano removalists come, I assumed they would deliver my piano to my new house. I never thought that...

13. I had thought that the smell was coming from his feet. That was until I noticed...

14. I got home to see the police had enclosed the entrance to my house ...

15. Driving in the dark I barely saw the dog that jumped out in front of my car...




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