Writing Prompts for Spring

Some new ideas for your writing as the weather warms

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As the weather warms and flowers start to emerge, here are some fresh writing prompts for your fiction or poetry.

• Describe a dream you had last night.

• Start listening to conversations in public and noting what a person or people say. Write a narrative or poem using their words.

• Center your narrative or poem around a famous painting (reedsyprompts).

• Imagine a world with a new color (adapted from reedsyprompt).

• Imagine a world without color (reedsyprompt).

• Write a narrative or poem about a baby seeing or blowing bubbles for the first time.

• Write a narrative where a person without the ability to taste decides to attend culinary school (WrittenWorldMedia).

• Write a narrative or a poem from the point of view of an adopted dog or cat.

• Describe a first kiss that’s less than stellar.

• Describe a first kiss that causes a near out-of-body experience.

• Center a narrative or poem around receiving an unexpected e-mail or an unexpected piece of mail (Writer’s Digest).

• Center a narrative or poem from the point of view of a flower blooming.

• Start a narrative or poem about discovering a centipede in the bathtub as a character is about to clean the tub.

• Center a narrative or poem about a spider spinning a web.

• Start a story about someone who has experienced repeated defeats in a project or career suddenly finding unexpected success.

• Write a narrative or poem about planting perennial flowers outside a home.

• Write a narrative or poem about running into a classmate from kindergarten 40 years later.

• Write a narrative or poem about learning to ride a bike at the age of 30.