List your favorite words, at least five of them. Now come up with five other ways to say each word. Use those words… all of them.
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Creative writing prompts to get your creativity flowing!
April Creativity Prompt 7 of 30
Make use of your horoscope for today (even if you don’t believe in that stuff). Create something with what it tells you.
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April Creativity Prompt 6 of 30
Demonstrate opposites. Do this in poetic, prose, or visual form. The more polar opposite you can get the better.
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April Creativity Prompt 5 of 30
Take the very last text message you sent and turn it into a story (picture, poem, or prose).
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April Creativity Prompt 4 of 30
Create something based on a fictional/fairy tale/movie character that you didn’t like when you were younger.
Exercise your creativity and your imagination!
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April Creativity Prompt 3 of 30
Pick up your iPod and hit shuffle… or do that in iTunes or whatever media player you use… or turn on the radio.
That song… the first one you hear…
How does it make you feel? What does it make you think of?
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April Creativity Prompt 2 of 30
Take a standard set of instructions on how to do something or how to work an item and turn it into something more creative. Write a poem. Draw or paint a picture. Begin a short story. Free Write what it makes you think of or feel. Begin a memoir piece around those instructions. BE CREATIVE!
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April Creativity Prompt 1 of 30
Think back to your earliest memory. Create something that reminds you of it. Or write something that describes it. Do your very best to capture that memory again.
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NaNoWriMo prompts – 29/30 & 30/30
29/30
Attempt to describe a color to someone who has been blind their entire life.
30/30
What does true happiness look like to you or your character? Truly take some time to allow to the reader to feel what you feel.
Happy Writing!
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NaNoWriMo prompts – 27/30 & 28/30
27/30
Make a list of 5 to 10 things you dislike/hate about yourself (or your character hates about themselves).
Now write a love note, poem, or story honoring those things and how they make you (or your character) unique.
28/30
Write about a smile, and how thankful you are for it. Write about more than one if you are so moved. If you are a fiction writer, write about a smile that changes your character’s life or outlook.
Happy Writing!
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