12 Days of Prompts
December 3, 2020 at 7:11 pm
Here at ROPES we understand writer’s block like nobody else. We could write a book on it ....maybe after we watch just one more TikTok. For a little inspiration we have compiled two lists to help ignite a creative spark! One is for poetry and the other for fiction. These are definitely interchangeable, so just take that idea and go wild!
12 Days of Poetry Prompts:
- My fatal flaw
- Describe a person as food or drink metaphors, maybe tequila or an aged gouda
- Outlandish comments strangers told you
- Base it off your most recent Instagram post
- An instruction poem could be a recipe, a guide, anything how to!
- Guilty pleasure
- “Back in my day we…”
- My eight commandments
- The heroes and weirdos of the local bus
- The butterfly effect
- Include 12 phrases of local slang
- “And that’s when I realized I was an adult.”
12 Days of Fiction Prompts:
- Confessions of a taxi driver
- Louder than words: A story where body language says more than the dialogue
- A lesson I learned the hard way
- “We went to an all girls Catholic school and rolled up our skirts. We ate ham sandwiches and bitched about the girls who had sex in fields or cars”
- The narrator is an insomniac
- “Kiss me you idiot”
- Include a character that exaggerates everything
- Explain the origins of a strange tradition.
- The one before the one: my almost love
- “Yes I just wet myself okay?”
- Your nemesis catches you in an awkward position
- “Hello this is the emergency operator we are too busy at the moment given the circumstances. Good luck”
Contributed by: Ruth E.
