CranioWriter

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Writing Prompts

  • Write a story about a scientist who brings life to the world through his/her creations.
  • Write a story about a women who has reason to call her husband an “idiot” at least 4 times
  • A garbage man discovers something strange at a residential dumpster. What is it? What happens next?
  • A little girl chases baby ducks in her grandmothers backyard. Where do they take her?
  • Personify an inanimate object
  • Write the internal monologue of someone waiting for the bus
  • Finish the story, “Shots rang out….”
  • You wake up from a vivid dream and realize something is different. What is it? How does it change your world?
  • Write an obituary for an inanimate object 
  • A man disguises himself as an electrician. Why does he do this? What happens? Does he get caught?
  • A woman rushes out of a house (not her house) to her car. On her car windshield, tucked under the wiper blade is a handwritten note. What does it say? What happens next?
  • For one hour you can listen to the conversations of any two people in the world. Whose conversations are you listening to? What do they say? What’s the benefit of listening to these conversations?
  • Two friends decide to set up a blind date for one another. What happens? Does an unexpected twist occur?
  • A man who has a phobia of getting married meets a women of the same fate. Does this change their fate?
  • Write the story about people who attend a weird costume party where everyone is dressed as an animal.
  • Write a disjoined, chaotic story/poemPi where nothing makes sense.
  • Write a poem about seeing fireflies in the dark for the first time
  • Pick two characters from one of your favorite books/movies/TV shows and write the story about how they fall in love.
  • A women annoyed with her marriage signs up for a dating site, she begins to fall in love with a stranger, only to learn that he is not a stranger.
  • A mysterious package is delivered to your door, what’s inside?
  • Your walking home from the store, and suddenly something strange begins to fall from the sky. What is it? Why is it falling? What do you do?