Need a starting point? Try these creative writing prompts to get you started on the right foot.

Even before the beginning of a story, you need an idea for a story. These creative writing prompts act as your launching pad to help you use your brain to start a story right away.

If you have a story idea in mind, but you aren't sure how to start it, try one of these prompts to get you out of the starting blocks. It doesn't have to be a perfect start, you just need to start! If you never put down word one of the greatest story ever told, it will never be told.

Get out your pad of paper and get ready to start cranking out some words!

The first list of prompts can be found right here!

It is not easy to access those deep down parts of yourself that can really stand out on a piece of paper. This next set of prompts will help you deal with that. Read on to write a little bit about love.

The other side of the coin: creative writing prompts that center on that all important end, death.

You can't live with 'em. You have their name on your birth certificate :). Here are some prompts about family.

There are people you can actually choose to spend your time with, and those lucky individuals would be your friends. Here are some creative writing prompts based on your friendships.

There are times when a writer does not feel like writing about his life. Something a bit...on the strange side would feel more appropriate. Take a look at these prompts a bit more dark, disturbing, and weird.

Sometimes writing makes you hungry. But other times, food makes you write! Try on these prompts inspired by food. To get food, you of course need money, which many writers think about all the time. Wouldn't it be great if money wasn't an issue for you? Prosperity is a great state of mind to help you to be inspired by some more writing prompts.

Holidays can be great inspiration for memories (both happy and sad) that can make us want to rush to our note pad right away! These pages of prompts about Halloween, the 4th of July New Years Eve, Thanksgiving, and birthdays can help you to remember even your most obscure holiday memories. Other memories you may want to remember or forget include these prompts about school, childhood, college, prom, divorce, work, travel, and lastly your general regrets. If you are extremely health conscious, you may feel the need to write about diets or exercise. Interested in how the world works? No? Well, some people are and they may want to write about politics, media, religion, home, the American Dream, law, and in a more historical sense archaeology.

For those varsity letter winners among us, here are a few sport prompts to bring you back: Baseball, Wrestling, and Football. On the flip side, for you creative types, here are some prompts about improv, music, and acting. The world is always chugging along around us humans, and for that reason, here are some prompts about water, animals, and nature. For those who are more concerned about society here are prompts about race, technology, manhood, health, memory, time, and the Internet.

Interested in the cycle of the four seasons? Try on Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter to get your seasonal writing fix. If you just plain like being outside, you may get your writing jollies from these prompts about camping and the beach.

For literary nerds like me, try out these creative writing prompts about Shakespeare, language, and books or these prompts about the fantasy and mystery genres. Two prompts that unfortunately go hand in hand are prompts about the concept of celebrity and drugs. A few others to check out are these prompts about success, heaven and hell, pregnancy, sleep, paranormal, and the Action genre.


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