Character: Psychotherapist

IMAGINE… a psychotherapist with unique qualities that you can build a story around.

Satire: Fun Factory

IMAGINE…. a sweat shop run by the Little Rascals…

Genre: The Bloomsbury Group

IMAGINE…. that you’re not only different from everyone else, but that you’re better than everyone else….

Natural World: White Blood Cells

Imagine… a society that turns its policing duties over to robots…

Parody: Romeo and Juliet

IMAGINE… you’re Romeo, and on the balcony is Juliet, who–like all women–really goes for a man who makes her laugh.

Quote: “Heads or Tails”

IMAGINE… a life or death decision that is settled by the toss of a coin.

Literary: ‘A Separate Peace’

IMAGINE… a nostalgic trip to your old school that dredges up long repressed memories.

Prop: Car Door Lock

IMAGINE… a murder that takes place within a small space that’s locked from the inside–a car.

Why “Idea Prompts”

This is a Prompt for Serious Writers. It’s not for the casual writer who journals for the sheer joy of it. It’s for the advanced writer who is hungry for Ideas they can develop into saleable properties: novellas, magazine articles, plays, columns, TV series, movies…

I started this blog because I was disappointed by the lack of quality Prompt sites that are steadily updated with stimulating topics. The few active sites rely on overly simplistic topics (e.g., Write About Your Best Day Ever, or, Write a Paragraph About Puppies).

Another failing of Writing Prompts is that they’re designed for freewriting, a form of mental idling where the writer merely follows the force of gravity, the pen moving from left to right in a continual parade to the bottom of the page.

I never liked spending my writing time in pointless exercises. If I’m going to write, I want to focus on topics I’m interested in, or topics that I might could easily develop.

That’s why I call this blog My Idea Prompts, not My Writing Prompts. My purpose is to stimulate writers’ Imaginations, as I would want mine stimulated. I’m demonstrating to those who suffer frequently from Writer’s Block that good Ideas can easily be drawn from a wide variety of sources.

Each Idea Prompt will have a little explanation of where I got the idea from, plus some suggestions for developing the Idea further. If you like any of my Ideas, just leave a Comment to tell me you’re going to give it a go.

Good luck!

Conflict: Killin’ Cousins

IMAGINE… An interactive mystery dinner about relatives with murderous intent.