Writing Prompt: We're Flipping the Script—We Want to Hear From You!

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This week, we’re doing something a little bit different. Inspired by the Creative Nonfiction Craft Classic we recently posted about “just writing,” from

Matthew Mercier

(check out his newsletter!), we’re handing the keys over to the reader. In Mercier’s post, he talks about regularly sharing writing prompts with his students, eventually instructing them to create prompts of their own and vote on the ones they like best.

So, with that in mind, we’re going to try the same! Dream up your best prompt — something that would inspire you to write yourself — and drop it here. Readers will “vote” with hearts on which they like the best, and the one that wins will be the next writing prompt we share here at Narratively Academy. So, let’s see what you got. Make it as fun, silly and weird as you’d like — and most importantly, make us want to write!

P.S. And congratulations to Jen Shepherd whose comment got the most likes on last week’s writing prompt about dodging a…