Try Flash Fiction
Mix-and-Match Writing Prompts
Don’t waste time waiting for story ideas to come to you. Flip through the Flash Fiction booklet, and you can create characters and plots in seconds.
Simply choose a single word or phrase from each of the five sections, in order, and then turn those selections into a sentence. It’s easy, because the sections are arranged like parts of speech.
Here’s a sample prompt to show you how it works.
1. descriptions (adjectives): vengeful
2. characters (nouns): historian
3. actions (verbs): steals
4. plot twists (objects): movie script
5. settings (more nouns): coffee shop
Add a few articles and prepositions, and you have a premise for a story: A vengeful historian steals a movie script in a coffee shop.