Photo Prompts, Story Starters, and Creative Exercises to Get You Writing
You want to write.
Your pen is ready. The page is waiting.
Your imagination, however, appears to have wandered off without leaving a forwarding address.
Prompt Me: Creative Writing Journal & Workbook gives you somewhere to begin. It combines visual prompts, opening lines, dialogue, creative exercises, writing space, and practical resources to help you move past the blank page and get words down.
You don’t need the whole story.
You just need a spark.
Start Anywhere
Some writers see a photograph and imagine what happened five minutes before it was taken.
Others need a sentence to finish, a conversation to continue, or a few unexpected elements to combine.
That’s why Prompt Me includes many kinds of inspiration:
- Original photo prompts
- First-person and third-person story starters
- Dialogue prompts
- Phrases to incorporate
- Branching choices
- Fill-in-the-blank combinations
- Traditional and self-discovery prompts
- Haiku and journal pages
Choose what catches your attention today and try something different tomorrow.
Write a paragraph. Fill several pages. Begin a poem, short story, screenplay, or novel. There’s no required order and no single correct response.
Writing Tools at Your Fingertips
The reference section helps you develop characters and add stronger sensory and emotional detail with:
- Character traits and appearance charts
- Words for light and darkness
- Tastes and aromas
- Physical signs of anxiety
- Words for sounds
- Strong vocabulary and synonym lists
- Guidance for avoiding language that may offend or exclude
Use the resources while answering a prompt or return to them for another writing project.
For Writers, Teachers, and Creative Thinkers
Prompt Me is designed for beginning and experienced writers, teens and adults, teachers, homeschool families, writing groups, screenwriters, and journalers ready to experiment with fiction.
Teachers and workshop leaders can turn individual prompts into warm-ups, bell activities, point-of-view exercises, dialogue practice, or longer creative writing projects.
Writing on your own?
Open anywhere, set a timer, and follow the idea. Skip a prompt that doesn’t work. Change one that almost does. Combine two and make something unexpected.
Prompts are meant to inspire you, not boss you around.
Award-Winning
Prompt Me: Creative Writing Journal & Workbook was named to BookAuthority’s Best Writing Books of All Time list, received an Excellence in Literature Award from Lemon Drop Learning, and reached #1 in Creative Writing Journals on Amazon.
But its purpose remains simple: Help you write.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Prompt Me for?
It’s designed for teen and adult writers at all experience levels. Teachers, homeschool families, writing groups, screenwriters, and journalers can also adapt the exercises.
Do I need to complete the workbook in order?
No. Open anywhere and choose the prompt that interests you. Skip, change, combine, or revisit exercises whenever you like.
Does the workbook include space to write?
Yes. Prompt Me is a consumable workbook with space to respond directly on the pages.
Can teachers use it in a classroom or workshop?
Yes. Prompts can become bell activities, warm-ups, writing assignments, group exercises, or longer projects.
Stop Staring at the Blank Page
You don’t need the perfect opening.
Choose a photograph. Finish a sentence. Follow a strange idea and see what happens.
The story can begin here.