Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Spring Writing Prompts 2019





By: The Steps to Getting Published Team


Happy Spring! The Steps to Getting Published Team is proud to bring you another edition of writing prompts. This spring edition includes spring themes for fiction writers, poets, and screenwriters. As always, we would love for you to post any stories, poems, or plays in the comments below—it would be our pleasure and honor to read them! We hope the new season inspires you with its rebirth, warmth, beauty, and colors. Happy Writing!

Writing Prompts for Fiction Writers

  • Create a short story based on a childhood memory of spring
  • On a rainy spring day, you’re walking home from a coffee shop, umbrella overhead, when you fall into a puddle to another world. Describe the world. Why did this happen to you?
  • Write a letter to the season
  • Write about two people on a first date in the park having a sweet picnic—and someone forgot the food.
  • In ten words or less, describe spring
  • Write about a garden of flattened pink roses. What might have happened?
  • Create a humorous short story about a gardening disaster
  • Write a short story with a flower festival setting


Writing Prompts for Poets

  • Write a poem from the perspective of a blooming flower petal
  • Write a poem about a new kind of flower
  • Write a poem about a springtime Tunnel of Love
  • Write a poem about how the grass and new flowers look in springtime, after a rainfall


Writing Prompts for Screenwriters

  • Construct a short screenplay where characters meet a guardian of spring
  • Write a play about a springtime sport injury that threatens to ruin the upcoming summer season


Image Prompt

Choose one of the images below. Write a short story, poem, or play, based on the image. 









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