Eight more writing prompts you should never use

  1. At long last Lucy lets Charlie Brown kick the football instead of yanking it away. Since you don’t own the rights to Peanuts you can’t write about this. Write about something else.
  2. List 9 good reasons to touch Stephen Harper’s hair.
  3. Aliens come to Earth and threaten to vaporize the planet if we don’t reform our ways regarding war, poverty and the environment. Write about how the brave hero dazzles them with his flamenco dancing instead.
  4. Write from a new perspective, such as while clinging to the side of a runaway bus.
  5. Describe a fateful meeting between Hitler and Einstein in three words.
  6. Write from the point of view of dysentery.
  7. Start your story with this line: Call me oatmeal.
  8. One day you find the commentary on every social media site to be witty, insightful and well-reasoned. Write about this or some other absurd fantasy scenario.

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