{"categories":[{"slug":"journal-prompts","title":"Journal prompts","url":"/prompts/journal-prompts/","prompts":["Name what has been taking up mental space.","Write the truth in plain language.","Describe the day without making it impressive.","What are you avoiding, and why?","Write down what you're grateful for today.","Describe how you actually feel right now.","What would you tell a friend in your situation?","What do you want to remember about today?","What drained your energy this week, and what gave it back?","Write about a decision you keep postponing. What is the real cost of waiting?","What did you say yes to that you wish you'd said no to?","Describe a moment today when you felt like yourself.","What are you pretending not to know?","Write a letter to yourself from one year ago.","What would make tomorrow ten percent easier?","List the worries in your head right now. Circle the one you can act on.","What are you proud of that nobody noticed?","Describe a conversation you keep replaying. What did you want to say?","What does a good ordinary day look like for you?","What rule are you following that no longer fits?","Who do you miss, and what would you tell them?","What is the smallest next step on the thing you're stuck on?","Write about a place where you feel calm. Use all five senses.","What did you learn about yourself this month?","If this week were a weather forecast, what would it be?","What are you holding on to that you could put down?","Describe the version of you who has solved today's problem.","What do you need more of right now? What do you need less of?","Write about something that surprised you recently.","What would you do this weekend if nobody was watching?"]},{"slug":"freewriting-prompts","title":"Freewriting prompts","url":"/prompts/freewriting-prompts/","prompts":["Write the messy version first.","Stay with one idea for the next ten minutes.","Explain the thought before judging it.","Start in the middle and work outward.","Say it the way you'd say it out loud.","Write the part you already know.","Don't explain — just describe.","Finish the sentence you're afraid of.","The thing nobody tells you about my job is...","Right now I can hear...","What I really meant to say was...","I keep coming back to the idea that...","Write about the last thing you changed your mind about.","Describe the room you're in as if you'll never see it again.","Start with the words \"I don't know what to write\" and keep going.","Argue with something you read this week.","List ten things you'd write about if nobody would ever read them.","Write the first page of the project you keep avoiding.","What question have you been carrying around lately?","Describe an object on your desk, then tell its story.","Write about a smell that takes you somewhere.","If I had to explain my idea to a ten-year-old, I'd say...","Write the worst possible opening line for your next piece. Then keep writing.","What would you write if you knew it would be deleted in an hour?","The real problem is...","Write down everything you know about your topic, in any order.","What happens next?","Describe the moment just before something changed."]},{"slug":"creative-writing-prompts","title":"Creative writing prompts","url":"/prompts/creative-writing-prompts/","prompts":["A locksmith is called to open a door from the inside.","Two strangers realise they've been writing to the same pen pal.","The last bus of the night stops somewhere it never stops.","A character finds a note in their own handwriting that they don't remember writing.","Write a scene where nobody says what they actually mean.","A town holds an election for a job nobody wants.","Someone returns a library book forty years late, with an explanation.","A wedding guest realises they're at the wrong wedding and decides to stay.","The power goes out during the most important conversation of someone's life.","Write about a family recipe that has a secret ingredient nobody will name.","A lighthouse keeper receives a letter addressed to the lighthouse.","Two siblings divide their late parent's belongings and find something unexpected.","A character is given one day to decide, and spends it doing something else.","The new neighbour is exactly like you, twenty years older.","Write a story told entirely through a list.","Someone keeps finding the same coin in different cities.","A tour guide starts telling the truth about the town.","Write the moment a friendship ends, without anyone raising their voice.","An old phone rings in a museum display case.","A child explains a grown-up problem better than the grown-ups.","A character must deliver bad news to a room that is celebrating.","Write about a promise that was kept, at great cost.","The weather forecast is suddenly, eerily specific.","A musician hears their own song in a place it shouldn't be.","Two people share an umbrella and the walk is longer than it should be.","Write a scene set in a waiting room, where the waiting is the story.","A character lies on a form and has to live up to it.","Someone inherits a house and the previous owner's unfinished argument with a neighbour.","Write the last page of a story first, then the first page.","The map is right. The town has moved."]},{"slug":"morning-pages-prompts","title":"Morning pages prompts","url":"/prompts/morning-pages-prompts/","prompts":["What's on my mind before I check my phone?","What did I dream about, or what do I remember of it?","What am I dreading today, and what am I looking forward to?","Today will be a good day if...","What's the one thing I most want to get done?","What did I leave unfinished yesterday?","How does my body feel this morning?","What am I telling myself about today that might not be true?","Who do I need to talk to today?","What would I do today if I had twice the energy?","What's annoying me that I haven't said out loud?","What am I curious about right now?","Describe what you can see from where you're sitting.","What would make today feel less rushed?","What did I learn yesterday?","What do I keep meaning to start?","I'm grateful for...","Where do I want to be by tonight, in any sense?","What's a small kindness I could do today?","What thought woke up with me?","What am I proud of from this week so far?","What is the most honest sentence I could write right now?","What can I let go of today?","Write the to-do list, then write what's underneath it."]},{"slug":"novel-writing-prompts","title":"Novel writing prompts","url":"/prompts/novel-writing-prompts/","prompts":["Write the scene your main character is most afraid of.","What does the antagonist want today, and how do they get closer to it?","Skip ahead and write a scene you're excited about.","Write the argument two characters have been avoiding.","Give your main character a small win, then take it away.","Write a chapter from the point of view of a minor character.","Your main character lies to someone they love. Why?","Describe the setting at a time of day you haven't written yet.","Write the moment your main character realises they were wrong.","Add a visitor who changes the mood of the room.","Write a scene that takes place entirely during a meal.","What does your character do when nobody is watching?","Bring back something from chapter one that the reader has forgotten.","Write the phone call, letter or message that changes everything.","Your character has to choose between two things they want. Write the choice.","Write what your character wanted at age twelve.","Something breaks. Write who notices first.","Write the scene where the plan goes wrong.","Describe your main character through someone who dislikes them.","Write a quiet scene right after a loud one.","What is the secret in this story? Write the scene where someone nearly finds out.","Write a flashback you'll probably cut. Find out what it tells you.","Make the weather matter for one scene.","Your character makes a promise they can't keep. Write it.","Write the last scene of the book, as you imagine it today.","Put two characters in a car for a long drive.","Write a chapter that starts five minutes later than you'd normally start it.","Something your character owns goes missing. Write the search.","Write the scene where the reader learns what this book is really about.","Write your character's worst day so far, then make it slightly worse."]},{"slug":"work-writing-prompts","title":"Work writing prompts","url":"/prompts/work-writing-prompts/","prompts":["Write the email as if one person needs it today.","Draft the update no one wants to write.","State the decision, then the reasons.","Summarize the meeting in three sentences.","Write the hard message kindly and clearly.","Outline the doc before polishing a word.","Explain the problem before the proposal.","Write the status update in plain terms.","Draft the launch post before editing.","Describe the user's pain before the solution.","Write the one sentence that matters most.","Explain it to a smart friend, not a crowd.","What would make someone stop scrolling?","Tell the story of why you built this.","Write the headline, then the proof.","End with the single thing you want them to do.","Write the \"no\" you've been postponing.","What does the reader need to do after reading this?","Write the apology without explaining yourself first.","List what's done, what's blocked, and what you need.","Write the request in one sentence, then add only what's needed to say yes.","Draft the follow-up to the email nobody answered.","Write the handover note for someone covering your work tomorrow.","Describe what changed this week as if to a new colleague."]}]}