Writer’s Write: Creative Writing Prompts

We will regularly feature creative writing prompts in the poetry section of Novel Novice. Because writers should write, right?

And writers get writer’s block. So to help you get scribbling – whether you’re sitting in front of the TV, in a quiet corner of the house, or sipping cocoa at the local bookstore – we want to push you in various directions. No matter how these exercises turn out, the important thing is to write. It may not be gold on the first draft, but there could be nuggets of beauty in there.

• And the Title Is…
• Epigraph, Not Epitaph
• Write a Love Poem
• Borrowed Text
• Secrets and Truths
• Collected Words
• Using Alice
• A Poem in Parts
• Translation From Sound
• Prose or Poetry?
• Free Verse Project
• Shhhh
• Harry Potter Style
• ABCs
• Make Your Own Pop Culture Reference to T.S. Eliot
• Saying the Unsaid
• Cancel It Out
• Hitting the Right Notes
• Music Muse
• Curious?
• Did You or Didn’t You?
• Social Media Musings
• Poetry in Space
• The Plath Voice
• Titanic Events
• Bad, Banned, and Beyond
• Collage
• In the Box with Joseph Cornell
• Getting Fancy
• Thirsty Thesaurus
• From Bad to Worse
• Ginsberg’s Ends
• Who? What? Where? Why?
• The Dog Ate My Poetry
• Carpe Diem
• Sound Your Yawp
• Wish You Were Here
• Interrupted
• Celebrity Status
• Inside Lynn Emanuel
• Poetryness
• In Receipt