Creative Prompts

It's so easy to be inspire but it's very hard to actually be inspired and follow through. I would say 40% of my writing were inspired by prompts and the other 60% comes from everywhere else.

List of a few of my favorite writing prompts:

Search Engine Stories Prompt - created by Selma in the city - uses real search engine terms as writing prompts

Fiction Friday - you don't have to write fiction but somehow it always inspire that in me

Cafe Writing - a monthly prompt with lots of options - poetry, fiction, essays

One Single Impression - offers prompts for haiku and and other poetic forms

Poefusion - run by the lovely Michelle - has four prompts: Monday Mural, Tuesday Title, Friday 5 and Poefusions and also introduces to Poetic Forms.

Three Word Wednesday - from the site: Each week, I post some words. People write things using the words. Then they comment here.

Read Write Poem - has a mixtures of prompts for new and growing poets

A Thousand Words - A photo or artwork is given and you are to write whatever inspires you but you do not have to write a 1000 words

Easy Street Prompts - Unable to write? Try these various prompts to help you get started

List of poem/writing forms that I have tried and liked:

Blackout Poems - find an article and just black out the unwanted words to create your poem

Six Sentences - write a story or anything that comes to you in just 6 sentences

The Rothko - a poem written while looking at Rothko's paintings

Imitation Poem - rewrite someone's poem to your own viewpoint

Shuffle Words - just drag and create

List of prompts for photography and various mix medias (currently participating in Photohunt and Macro Monday at 2lives):

Art Every Day Month Challenge for November - you can still join for the rest of November

Photohunt - a theme given each week and you search for a pic that matches the theme

Macro Monday - like the name says, closeup shots of just about anything

Her Space My Space His Space - mostly like photohunt

Inspire Me Thursday - various creative prompts

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Comments

[lissa]

just found another one - http://sohe812.blogspot.com/2008/11/december-pow-photos.html

photos are given like a storyboard and then you write something using them