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31 More Writing Prompts You Can Leverage Right Now
Because everyone can use a little inspiration now and then
Any professional athlete will tell you that the key to performing at an elite level is practicing the fundamentals. You don’t become an elite point guard in the NBA without practicing your dribbling every day. Muhammad Ali would never have become The Greatest without obsessively practicing his right jab.
As writers, few skills are more fundamental to us than generating ideas on the spot. This morning right after I got out of bed, I thought back to my 4th-grade physical education class. Coach would take us out on the basketball court and say, “Jumping jacks. Gimme 25. Let’s go.”
So this morning, I decided to give my idea muscle a little exercise. Thinking back to my successful post 31 Writing Prompts You Can Leverage Right Now that I wrote a couple of months ago, I said to myself, “Ideas. Gimme 31. Let’s go.”
Feel free to use any of the prompts below as a starting point, or run them through Google, Bing, Answer the Public, Quora, Reddit, or whatever utensils are a part of your writing recipe.
Someone stops you on the street and says “Teach me something.” What do you teach them?
