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

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! If you just got your online English degree get ready to use it!

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.

A few more prompt pages to check out include more genre prompts like horror, science fiction, romantic comedy and some prompts for the kiddies like those for first grade, second grade, third grade students. Try these out to get your students (or yourself) writing! Also, try out these Christmas writing prompts, a page of Christmas creative writing ideas and a Thanksgiving writing prompt list! For the Jews among us, here is a page of Hanukkah writing prompts.

After seeing how popular my writing prompts for students have been, I decided to add 45 additional pages of student prompts. For first graders, I have added creative writing prompts on the subjects of friends, birthdays, cartoons, vacation, school, recreation, their home town and planes, trains and automobiles. For second graders you can check out prompts about summer, winter, fall, seasons, spring, people, the internet, cell phones and themselves. For third graders here are pages based on video games, reading, science, math, lunch, television and movies, gizmos and gadgets, athletics and lastly one on time and space. For 4th graders I've included prompts pages on the arts, writing, the world, bullying, nature, and some miscellaneous ones located on grab bab #1, grab bag #2 and grab bag #3. Last but not least, our fifth graders with pages on religion, happiness, truth, health, fame, social studies, hard work and two miscellaneous creative writing prompts pages located at grab bag #1 and grab bag #2. And here is a page of Kindergarten writing prompts for the wee ones. You should also give these creative writing activities a shot to keep your students' writing time from becoming boring.

And for older students here is a high school writing prompt list, an expository writing prompt list, a list of narrative writing prompts and a fiction writing prompt list. And here is a list of creative writing lesson plans along with two lists of journal writing ideas, journal writing topics and journal writing prompts. And here are pages of middle school writing prompts, elementary writing prompts, essay writing prompts and creative writing essay ideas. Here are some general student writing prompts.

My latest set of writing prompts is for a new book centering on character writing prompts. Check out a set of these new prompts focused on heroes, villains, sidekicks, athletes, teachers, parents and guardians, family, superheroes, vampires, ghosts, ghouls and spirits, exes, unrequited love, pirates, pets, servers, baristas and bartenders, children, neighbors, spies and secret agents, nerds, geeks and dweebs, bosses, zombies, werewolves, animals, aliens, ninjas and samurai, royalty, landlords, big shots, robots, teenagers, monsters, demons and strange creatures, senior citizens, reporters, correspondents and hosts, emergency workers, the washed up, optimists, coaches and athletic trainers, pessimists, the seedy underbelly, the fabulously wealthy, chefs and cooks, the poor and destitute, screw ups, actors, musicians and artists, clerks, cashiers and receptionists, comedians, college students, professional wrestlers, writers, criminals, the overweight, sports fans, the work obsessed, the partiers, the talkers and the fearful.

Looking for some more general prompts? Take a look at this creative writing topic list, a list of descriptive writing prompts and a page of short story topics. Here is a compilation of some of my favorite free writing prompts on the site and here is another top ten list on the writing prompts online page. Here is a list of poetry writing prompts for the verse writer inside of you!

I have also started a new series of writing prompts related to the months of the year. To start us off, here's one for December writing prompts. Here is another one dedicated to January writing prompts.

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