If you have the urge to write, but have trouble getting started, these writing prompts might provide the inspiration you need to get going. Choose a prompt that inspires you to write that story that has been lurking in you for so long.
These prompts may also help begin meaningful conversations, or inspire a new song, poem, or other artistic creations.
The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust, and often used by modern interviewers.
The (slightly edited) questions are:
Alan Alda ends each episode of his Clear + Vivid podcast by asking the guest to answer seven questions, chosen from this list:
A Socratic dialogue reveals how different our outlooks can be on concepts we use every day.
This list of Socratic method prompts can inspire your imagination and writing.
This list of questions to classify can also stimulate and clarify your thinking.
This personal inventory can prompt reflection about yourself or others and suggest various writing topics.
Describe your well considered views on one of these moral issues.
It can be thought provoking to examine this list of general knowledge questions. Questions with surprising answers may be good candidates for writing about.
The Artificial Intelligence chatbot chatGPT was prompted to generate a long list of writer’s prompts. Here are the resulting AI generated writer's prompts, and AI generated story prompts.
Many sites on the Internet suggest writing prompts.
Here is a sample of them:
These books can provide further inspiration.