Samuel
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I'm in a creative writing class and we have to turn in a new short story every two weeks. I'm completely out of ideas. I've written about family drama, a haunted house, a breakup—everything feels done before. My professor suggested using creative writing prompts to get unstuck, but every list I find online is either for little kids ('what would your pet say if it could talk?') or way too abstract ('write about the void'). Where do you guys find prompts that are actually challenging but not impossible? I need something that sparks an idea without doing all the work for me. I've heard that prompts can be a great way to lower the stakes and just get words on the page . But I also want something that could actually turn into a real story, not just a writing exercise.
