Describe the room you are in using five concrete details before adding any opinion about it.
18 Writing Prompts for Beginners Prompts
These prompts create a starting constraint, question, or situation. Use one as written, combine two, or change the audience, setting, objective, or limitation to make a new exercise.
Write about a meal you could make without looking at a recipe and explain the order of steps.
Invent a character who wants one ordinary thing before the end of the day.
Describe a person you know through one habit rather than a list of personality traits.
Write a short scene beginning with someone knocking at the wrong door.
Explain one hobby or task to a reader who has never tried it.
Write about a small decision you made today and one alternative you did not choose.
Describe a street, shop, school, or room from memory, then check which details you are unsure about.
Write five different endings to the sentence: “I almost did not notice…”
Tell a story in exactly six sentences: setup, goal, obstacle, attempt, change, ending.
Write a paragraph arguing for a simple preference such as morning versus night, paper versus digital, or city versus countryside.
Describe an object you use every day as if it were an artifact found 500 years from now.
Write a conversation where one person asks for help and the other cannot give the obvious kind of help.
Choose one photo and write what happened five minutes before it was taken.
Write about a place you would recommend to a friend and include one drawback as well as the good parts.
Describe the weather without using good, bad, nice, beautiful, or terrible.
Write a short memory that contains one sound, one physical action, and one line of dialogue.
Take something you wrote earlier and replace three vague words with more specific ones.