Writing Sparks

The blank page is a gentle terror. These prompts may make it less so. Even... fun? Enjoy.

• 25-Word Universe: Paint a vivid world within twenty-five words.
• A Small Delight Catalog: Celebrate life's tiny joys and secret pleasures.
• A Letter From Your Desk: What might your surface say about your inner life?
• An Unspoken Gratitudes List: Write about wonders you've never appreciated aloud.
• A Seed's Poem: Describe patience, darkness, and anticipation through the eyes of a seed underground.
• A Postcard From Yesterday's Tomorrow: Write greetings from the futures imagination once promised you.
• Alphabetic Fables: Let each sentence start with sequential letters from A to Z.
• Fairy Tale Footnotes: What essential details did they leave out?.
• Instructions For Reading Dreams: Write a manual for translating your sleeping life into words.
• Invisible Character Sketch: Describe someone without mentioning appearance at all.
• Invitations To An Unhosted Event: Create invitations for a gathering you'll never host.
• Imaginary Travel Journals: Record visits to impossible places: cities in clouds, ocean depths...
• Maps Of Forgotten Worlds: Sketch and describe territories lost in your imagination's geography.
• Museum Of Imaginary Objects: Curate and describe peculiar items that never were yet ought to be.
• Recipes For Impossibilities: Share cooking instructions for unrequited love, nostalgia, or perfect days.
• Self-Portrait As A Season: Capture your spirit through a season.
• Snapshots Of Future Memories: Write vignettes from experiences you're yet to have.
• That Which A Pencil Remembers: Write from the perspective of a pencil recalling everything it's recorded.
• The Stars Envy Earth: Compose their longing as they gaze down toward our world.
• Things Nature Taught You: Brief reflections on lessons from trees, rivers, skies, and stones.
• Tiny Stories Of Gigantic Things: Describe galaxies, mountains, or love in less than 100 words.