- Write about a day that is too hot.
- Start a story with “The lemonade tasted strange…”
- Imagine a new invention. Describe what it does.
- Write about fireworks.
- Write about watermelon seeds.
- Start a blog or online journal
- Write about a day you wish you could forget
- Write about a new love interest
- Describe the best kiss you’ve ever had
- Write a letter to a childhood enemy
- Use the words random, ice cube, television, and robot in a 500 word story.
- Write about ants at a picnic.
- Write a 50 word story.
- Write about a baseball game.
- Pick three characters. Have one describe the second to the third.
- Start with “I didn’t think the rain would ever stop.”
- Write a review of your favorite band
- Write a story or scene that takes place in a high school
- Write an obituary for one of your characters
- Take an ordinary object and write for 5 minutes describing it
- Describe anger 3 ways, drawing on a different sense each time.
- Use these words: yoke, unyielding, weight.
- Start with: “The women of this family…”
- Write about an “earworm”–a song stuck in your head.
- List 5 things you avoid doing; write 50 words about each.
- Write about a last minute addition
- Read some poetry
- Write a 500 word children’s story and post it
- Write about an impossible deadline
- Begin with “It had been raining for six days.”
- Harry Potter’s birthday! Write about a boy wearing glasses
