Stories prompts

10 prompts for stories, from the Writing & Ideas shelf of the Secure AI library. Each one is written to be sent as it is or filled in — the bracketed parts are where your own situation goes.

• Write the Opening Paragraph of a Short StoryThe first line that makes someone keep reading.
• Turn a Memory into a Free-Verse PoemA memory, distilled down to its one true image.
• Write a Twist Ending for My Short StoryEndings that were earned, not just surprising.
• Write a Haiku Sequence About the SeasonsOne small thing, watched through all four seasons.
• Write a Story That Starts With the EndingThe reader knows the ending on page one — and reads anyway.
• Write a Short Poem About a Place I Left BehindOne detail, not the whole place — that's what a poem needs.
• Turn Summary Into SceneScene forces decisions summary let you avoid.
• Give a Character Something to WantA want and a conflicting need, which makes plot.
• Rewrite Dialogue With SubtextEveryone talking around the thing that matters.
• Fix a Sagging MiddleFinds the point the reader stops worrying.

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