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Creative Writing Prompts: New Perspectives

Melinda Tognini January 31, 2022 No Comments
ID: Blog title reading Creative Prompts: New Perspectives

Do you need a few writing prompts to kick start your creativity this year?

If so, look no further!

1. Warm Up: Five Words

Include the following words in a scene: beginning, mirror, teacup, glasses, summer.

2. Five senses

Sit somewhere you can observe the scene around you. This could be your street, a local cafe, a park, school, anywhere really. Describe the scene around you. Make sure you include all five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. You might want to add emotions and anything you notice about your own body.

Create a story (fiction or non-fiction), song or poem that incorporates some of these details. Alternatively, if you have a current work-in-progress, incorporate specific details into your existing setting and story line.

3. From Real Life: A Challenge and a Joy

The last year has been filled with challenges, and yet there have still been moments of joy in the midst of it all.

Joy is different to happiness. We don’t have to be happy about our circumstances, but we can still find moments of joy and things to be thankful for.

What is one challenge you have faced? How did it impact? What helped you through it?

And what moments of joy or gratitude have you experienced?

4. Random objects

Gather together five random objects. To do this, either select one object from five different rooms (outdoor areas count),  ask five people to each lend you an object, or use the five objects included here.

Create a story or piece of artwork that incorporates all five objects.

ID: Five random objects (selected at random from Unsplash website): 1. silver creature ornament. 2. pair of oversized headphones. 3. baseball. 4. a lock. 5. an old fashioned alarm clock.
[Photo credits: 1. Thor Alvis on Unsplash. 2. C D-X on Unsplash. 3. Chris Briggs on Unsplash. 4. Markus Winkler on Unsplash. 5. Ales Krivec on Unsplash.]

5. Arguing Characters

Create two characters who disagree on a particular topic or issue (be as controversial as you like). These could be two characters you are meeting for the first time, or they could be part of a current work-in-progress and be relatively familiar to you.

Write the conversation or argument your two characters have.

Are they able to find any common ground in the midst of their argument? Aside from the dialogue, how does each behave and feel during and after the argument? How did you feel writing it?

ID: Two people facing each other and pointing fingers.
[Photo credit: Afif Kusuma on Unsplash.]

6. New perspectives

With your phone or a camera, head out into your yard, street or other place that is familiar to you. Take a photo of your usual vista.

Now take a collection of additional photos, all from different viewpoints. Include a variety of camera shots (e.g. close up and long shot) and camera angles (e.g. high angle and low angle).

Review the photos. What do you notice now that has escaped your attention previously?

Create a piece of artwork that incorporates some of these newly-noticed details.

7. Images

Choose an image and use it to inspire a new story, or incorporate a new aspect of a setting into an existing story.

ID: a close up of a face that is covered in cloth apart from the eyes, eyebrows and top part of the nose.
[Photo credit: Hans Isaacson on Unsplash.]
ID: a vast landscape set on a mountaintop. There is vegetation covering the ground and a sole tree in the centre of the image. Cloud and sky dominate the background.
[Photo credit: Hans Isaacson on Unsplash.]
ID: an icy streetscape with tall buildings on either side of the street. The street is covered in snow and a lone person on the side walk walks towards the camera and is wearing a hooded jacket and a face mask.
[Photo credit: Lerone Pieters on Unsplash.]
 

 

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