Best General Writing Prompts of 2021

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Start your story with someone sitting on a crowded train and end it with them looking out over beautiful natural scenery.

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Write about a community that worships Mother Nature.

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Write a story in which an endangered species (of plant or animal) plays a central role.

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Write a story that weaves together multiple lives through their connection to a particular tree.

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Start your story with an ending and work backward toward the beginning.

General – 98 stories

Write a story where one person is trying to say goodbye but keeps getting interrupted.

General – 71 stories

Start your story with a character taking a leap of faith.

General – 90 stories

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Write about an author famous for their fairy tale retellings.

General – 78 stories

Write a story about an ordinary person speaking truth to power.

General – 83 stories

Write a cautionary fable about someone who always lies.

General – 130 stories

Write about someone who’s spent a whole year planning a big prank, and now they’re finally ready to pull it off.

General – 84 stories

Write a story where flowers play a central role.

General – 320 stories

Start your story with one character pointing out the first sign of spring to another.

General – 116 stories

Write about a character coming out of a long hibernation (either literal or metaphorical).

General – 176 stories

Set your story at a park during a spring festival.

General – 89 stories

Write about someone fighting to keep their city neighborhood the same.

General – 38 stories

Write about someone fighting to change their city neighborhood for the better.

General – 53 stories

Start your story with the line, “That’s the thing about this city…”

General – 311 stories

Set your story in a major city that your character has a love-hate relationship with.

General – 167 stories

Start your story with a character struggling to remember the date, because every day is like the last one.

General – 189 stories

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