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Writing prompt: Scent

A scent is inhaled, changing everything. Write the...

Does your character have a garden? Why? What does it mean to them? Write a scene where someone...

Writing Prompt: Write about a perfect day.

There is power in brevity. Your challenge: Write a drabble—a story of exactly 100 words. Try these 10 writing prompts to get you started.

You meet your doppelgänger. Write the...

Writing Prompt: Your protagonist gets in a helicopter and…. Write that scene.

Your character is waiting, anxiously, for a certain package to arrive. Why? What’s in...

Take a trip back in time and write a scene set in a 1920’s speakeasy.