Use the heat and sunshine of summer to unlock writer's block and find creative writing inspiration with these prompts for writers.
Summer is a time for being outdoors and enjoying the sun and warmth. Use that energy to inspire your creativity, develop your characters and overcome writer's block with these ten creative writing prompts.
- Write a short story set entirely on a sweltering city subway in the middle of a summer afternoon. What does the heat do to your characters and the mood of the story?
- What is the most remarkable memory of summer that you have? What made it so memorable?
- Imagine the sort of summer job one of your characters would have. Write about the job and why your character is working there. In the story show how he or she feels about it and how it affects his or her personality.
- Write a one-page short story using one, some or all of the following words: "sunburn", "barbecue", "airplane", "dragonfly", "movie" and "marshmallow."
- One of your characters takes a a summer vacation, bringing only a backpack filled with a flashlight, a photo album, an unfamiliar key and three days' worth of clothes. Write about the vacation your character ends up having. Where does your character go? What happens to him or her while on the trip?
- Do you love to soak up the summer heat or do you find the temperature unbearable? Write about your favourite aspects of summer and about the parts you most despise.
- Three of your characters are having a summer picnic and one of them gets stung by a wasp. What happens to that character? How do the other two characters react?
- Freewrite for five minutes using the phrase, "I didn't even know I could swim, but I had to keep going . . ."
- Imagine a city-wide blackout in the middle of a hot summer evening. What is the first thing you do when the power goes out? How do you spend that evening?
- With new flowers in bloom and fresh fruit in abundance, summer is a season of growth and new life. What growth have you experienced in your life recently? What growth do you anticipate in the future?
With the favourable weather and long days of summer, it can be tempting to let your writing practice fall by the wayside. However, using these ten easy summer writing prompts, your creativity doesn't need to be put aside. Open your notebook or laptop and let the season inspire your creative writing and deepen your character development.
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