This Monday, I’m going to give you three writing prompts you can go write from right now.

Writing prompts are a great way especially for beginning writers to explore and improve their skills. It allows you to have a topic or framework to write from instead of staring at blank page. Plus, it allows you to write something you wouldn't normally write, and thereby giving you a broader scope as a writer.

I sometimes forget how useful writing prompts are, which is why I'm writing this, not only for you, but as a reminder to myself to do this practice more often.

Beginning Writers Fail To See What A Gift Prompts Can Be.

Here are 5 reasons to use prompts as part of your writing practice:

• You don't start from a blank page.

• You're challenged on your technique.

• You're forced to go deeper in your writing.

• Prompts will give you more topics to write about.

• It's a different mindset than writing on whatever topic you feel like.

I'm going to give you three prompts that will start you off writing immediately. I would suggest not writing on them all at once, but splitting them up and do them across several days.

Prompt #1: Write one page about a fictional event.

I've used this prompt in the past, and my fictional event was that the whole world was gathered to watch a live-stream of astronauts installing a giant tv on the moon.

You can use any fictional event—big or small. And try to challenge yourself.

You can do this by:

• Writing in the first person.

• Rewriting it in third person.

• Write it in past tense.

• Rewrite it in the present tense.

There's a lot of ways to do this, coming up with the event is the easy part.

The hard part is actually challenging yourself to write about it in a way that's interesting, which is why I suggest you to do it in as many different ways as possible.

Prompt #2: Write a dialogue, and have one character want something the other won't give.

Most beginning writers aren't great at dialogue, which is natural.

All skill comes with practice.

One way to make dialogue interesting is to give your characters something to strive for. Make them want something that the other character is the only one who can give them. And have the other character not want to give them that thing.

When I wrote from this prompt, I wrote a dialogue between God and Satan, in which Satan called for God to rewrite the Ten Commandments and redefine what it means to commit a sin.

But the dialogue could be about anything. Could just be that one character wants the last piece of pizza, and the other person is not willing to give it up.

Play around with it.

Prompt #3: Write a message from one character to another.

This exercise practices writing from the perspective of one character. You have a chance to explore how they think, what they tell, and what they omit.

The message could be anything, such as a:

• DM.

• Will.

• Letter.

• Birthday card.

• Text-message.

Or any other thing that is a message FROM someone TO someone.

Writing to someone specific will make your writing be more personal to the reader.

Weekly Resource

This weeks resources is a thread from Dickie Bush.

Dickie writes about getting out of a creative block, so you never need to stare at the blank page again. The whole thread is solid if you’re struggling to come up with ideas, and it provides you with a lot of strategies and techniques.

Especially the part of the thread where Dickie discusses the prompt of writing about not writing.

That’s a powerful thing. Use it when you don’t know what to write about.

Weekly Highlight

This weeks highlight is a post I wrote from a prompt I made myself.

The prompt was:

“Write a poetry/prose hybrid where you write to a specific person.”

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Until next time...

Use these prompts to start your writing.

You’re welcome to tag me on X if you want to share some of your writing with me.

My handle is @PeterSFleeton