Creative Writing Prompts

Loosen up and write for the fun of it. These prompts have no right answer and no audience.

If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who and why?
Write a letter to your future self, one year from now.
Describe your perfect weekend with no obligations or budget constraints.
If you could live in any time period, when would it be and why?
What book, movie, or song has impacted you the most? Why?
If your life were a movie, what genre would it be right now?
Invent a holiday. What does it celebrate and how is it observed?
Write about your day from the perspective of your pet (or an imaginary one).
If you woke up tomorrow with a superpower, what would it be and what would you do first?
Describe your day as a recipe, with ingredients and steps.
Invent a word for a feeling that has no name yet.
If your home could talk, what would it complain about?
Write the opening line of the novel about your week.
Which fictional place would you move to, and what would you pack?
Describe yourself as a place instead of a person.
If you had a museum, what would be in the first room?
Write a review of today as if it were a restaurant.
Pick the sound that would be your theme music right now.
Invent a rule that everyone in the world must follow tomorrow.
Describe the last thing you saw as though you had never seen one before.

Nobody is grading this. Follow the prompt somewhere strange, write one line, or ignore the question halfway through and keep going.

Write These in Pensio

These prompts are built into the app, suggested based on how you have been writing lately. Pensio picks up the emotions in your entries and shows you the patterns over time. Your writing stays yours, and you can export all of it as Markdown.

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