Emotions can also work as prompts. Focus on strong emotions like anger, rage, sadness, excitement, or fear.
Using a person as a prompt may be especially useful if you are struggling with creating a character in a story. Do a free-write in the voice of the character to help you generate ideas for the story.
For example, you may choose a sentence like “She went into the bedroom” as the prompt. This can then be the start of free writing.
You can find writing prompts online at Writer’s Digest. com and Daily Writing Tools. com. You can also get prompts through a writing App. Download writing Apps like Prompts or Write About This on your phone or computer to get free writing prompts.
You can make the free-write longer, 15-30 minutes if you want to go for it and write for a while.
Once the timer goes off, you can stop writing and read what you have written. Avoid doing this during the freewrite, as this will only distract you and force you to stop writing. You can then decide to keep the free-write and use it to create a new piece or add lines from it to an existing piece. You can also discard it or share it with someone else.
You can use a writing app to make it easy for you to find a different prompt to write to each day.
