Oddly Prompted

I call this page "Oddly Prompted" because it contains a list of odd prompts.

The prompts are generated by randomly selecting a story type, genre, occupation, scene location and scene prop. I throw them together into a sentence and voilà!

Here is a list from the odd prompt generator.

Click here to see the source of the prompts and to suggest your own elements.

---

2012 — 2013 — 2014 — 2015 — 2016 — 2017 — 2018 — 2019 — 2020 — 2021 — 2022 — 2023 — 2024 — 2025
Jan — Feb — Mar — Apr — May — Jun — Jul — Aug — Sep — Oct — Nov — Dec

8/30/2020	Write a Action-Adventure piece about an archivist who bunts a baseball. At some point, the archivist must appear in a laboratory and encounter a ladder (not necessarily at the same time).
8/30/2020	Write a Action-Adventure piece about a cement mason who coaches a little league team. At some point, the cement mason must appear in a fish market and encounter an oil paint (not necessarily at the same time).
8/14/2020	Write a Detective piece about a sales assistant who starts a band. At some point, the sales assistant must appear in an operating room and encounter scissors (not necessarily at the same time).
8/2/2020	Write a Romance piece about a football coach who catches a fly ball. At some point, the football coach must appear in a workstation and encounter a polymer clay (not necessarily at the same time).

Resources

Books

Websites

Marketing Services

Publishing Services

Sentence Structure

Story Blurb

Character

Plotting

Narrator and Point of View

Scenes

Dialogue and Monologue

Editing Services

Grammar

Writing Community

Writing Contests

Writing Help

Writing Programs

Writing Tools