Your main character wakes up in the middle of the night to a buzzing sound in their ear.

Write a sci-fi story about what happens next.

Write a dual point-of-view scene in which the right part of the brain and the left are disagreeing about a topic.

Think about the characteristics associated with each side.

Your main character starts seeing the same drone almost everywhere they go.

Write a suspenseful story inspired by this premise.

Compose a poem about the lost art of boredom.

Are we missing out on the beauty of being bored?

Your friend tells you they always keep a souvenir from every date they’ve been on. You think that’s sweet, until...

In a country where it’s always daytime, a character travels in search of the anonymity that darkness offers.

Write a story about this traveler and their motivations.

Write a story about this character.

Write a poem about the protagonist getting something off of their chest.

'I prayed this was one of my smaller mistakes.'

Write a story that starts with this sentence.

Over margaritas on the beach, two friends have a life-altering conversation.

A portal appears from a mirror in the bathroom at an old pub. Your character has ten seconds to decide what to do before it closes.

Cleansing

Write a poem inspired by this theme.

The first sentence of your story starts with ‘Birds circled overhead’.

Think about how the type of birds you choose can symbolise the themes of the story.

Convey your character’s personality by describing how they experience listening to music.

You could include the genre of music, what device they use to listen to it, if they dance, etc.

Write a story that starts in a calm library, and ends with an illegal car race...

Focus on how you make a believable transition between these scenes.

Write a poem about the heart, focusing on its physicality and actions.

Avoid the kind of metaphors and language which are normally associated with the heart's emotional connection.

Your main character, who scams people for a living, gets a taste of their own medicine.

Your character has been kidnaped by a pirate and trapped in a dark dungeon below deck…

How can they use their other senses to determine where their abductor is taking them?

Just as some humans are ghost-hunters, some ghosts are human-hunters.

Write a story in which the main character is a ghost who hunts humans.

Write a Haiku expressing the paradox of trust, being capable of great beauty and great harm.

How will you use this very short poetic form to portray such a concept?