Thursday, October 28, 2010

List of Prompt Sites

This post is pretty much exclusively for writer's although visual artists may be inspired by some. If you're a visual artist looking for inspiration, I would recommend checking out 2 and 5.

The darker gray ones are the sites that I highly recommend.
  1. http://www.theteacherscorner.net/daily-writing-prompts/ - 356 writing prompts- Most of these are better for writing exercises, but maybe you'll be inspired.
  2. http://www.webook.com/911writersblock - This has 9 very specific ideas but I think they could spawn some AMAZING ideas. Plus, they have a great idea if you want to kill of a character. ;) Their is also a little forum type thing that I ahven't explored but it looks ike more prompts are offered on that.
  3. http://www.plinky.com/prompts - They offer a question every day that you can answer and turn into a story/piece or you can be inspired by one of the answers posted.
  4. http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/imagination.prompt.html - gives short little prompts/questions at the push of a button. Also has a picture database.
  5. http://thehappynotes-seriah.blogspot.com/ - "The Happy Notes is a blog dedicated to helping writers overcome that block and to encourage them to keep writing. (Almost) daily, new prompts, quotes, listening suggestions, prompt pictures and inspirational "Get Going" messages will be posted for writers to use at their leisure." It's two companion blogs are fabulous too. 
  6. http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/ - 346 prompts of different kinds- word banks, ideas, endings, etc.
  7. http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html - Not my favorite. Questions about you. Better probably as a writing exercise.
  8. http://www.charlottedillon.com/Prompts.html - Large variety of prompts, lots of different kinds.
  9. http://www.angelfire.com/nc/tcrpress/plots1.html - 2382 prompts, all short sentences. Could help but there is a ton to sort through.
  10. http://www.lifeformz.com/cgi-bin/idea/idea.cgi - basically gives a one sentence plot synopsis. Gives them one at a time, but I assume there are a LOT of them. They tend to be a little ridiculous, but its helped me before. :)
  11. http://www.toasted-cheese.com/webcal/webcal.cgi - This site has daily prompts going back through 2002. This site has more one sentence prompts, but I don't find them as helpful as other sites.

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