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Story starters and creative writing prompts

Looking for story starters and creative writing prompts? You've just struck gold. Here you'll find an endless supply of free creative writing ideas, everything you need to keep your imagination going non-stop. Bye-bye, Writer's Block.

Take a moment to bookmark this page so that you can find it again whenever you need new ideas.

If you're a writer, you can turn any of these creative writing ideas into short stories, novels, or dramatic writing. Or use them as a warm-up to spark your imagination.

If you're a writing teacher, you might like to visit the CWN teaching page, where you'll find suggestions and guidelines for using these creative writing prompts as classroom exercises and assignments.

If you're taking one of Creative Writing Now's free online writing courses, you can use these fiction writing prompts to work on your creative writing goals or to get ideas for the 10-minute assignments.

So, let me show you around.

"44 Short Story Ideas" is a general list of writing topics with something for everyone.

If you're looking for more detailed story concepts, read on. The pages below are divided based on related topics in CWN's free writing courses, but you can use them any way you want.

Story Prompts (recommended for study of: Showing versus Telling and Specific Detail)

More Fiction Writing Prompts (recommended for study of: Character Development)

Even More Fiction Writing Prompts (recommended for study of: Plot and Story Climax)

And Even More Story Prompts (recommended for study of: Narrative Point of View)

And... Wait a Minute... More Story Prompts (recommended for study of: Dialogue)


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