Looking for a jump-start to get your pen moving?

Write on a prompt for 20 minutes without stopping or editing. If you have a favorite writing prompt, e-mail coffeeandink and we'll feature it on the Web site.

Here are 21 great prompts from Coffee and Ink's Monday Night Writers Group. Try one!

  • The great baseball game
  • Getting to elementary school
  • A romantic moment
  • Car deal
  • An irritating behavior
  • A tattoo
  • Describe a feeling without naming it
  • What's under the house?
  • Sabotage in the Workplace
  • My best Christmas
  • If bricks could talk
  • An old friend
  • Levels of cruelty
  • I used to be...now I am
  • She ran outside
  • Part-time job
  • I remember
  • I don't remember
  • An earring
  • The deep river
  • Childbirth stories


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