Lately I’ve seen an influx of people asking for ideas. Ideas they scream, we want ideas! Well now, giving them an idea would be idiotic, because they’d just get more lazy and wouldn’t become a good writer.

Adding a few more prompts, on the other hand, shouldn’t hurt. So, on to them then.

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Make a list of the five clichés that annoy you the most. If you can’t come up with five, then you clearly need to go read some more bad fiction and analyze it more carefully. Once you have all five, incorporate them all into a decent (as decent as you can make it) story of one thousand words.

Why is the paper blue?

Her mom wouldn’t let her into the gifted program in second grade. Write a short perspective from the Mom about why.

Flying, a most wonderful thing to write about. This time, write about flying in a plane, and at the end make a twist that it was all just a simulator.

People misspell things a lot of times. So write about something that has been dyed, a bare bear, and the main mane. Add whatever else you can think of.

For the more mature of you, write about an incestuous form of abuse without the graphic details just focusing on the emotional pain from the victim and bringing that to words.

Use the words; dog, Pluto, machine, darling, mouse, pencil, and shavings in one poem that is at least three stanzas. E-mail me it when you’re done, it should be remarkably interesting if you have creativity.

Who the heck designed a flexi ruler?

Some women are have C-sections if their due date is close to 6/6/06, write about a child that didn’t, was born that day, and his mother is afraid of them though he isn’t the devil. Takes place at three years old, and write it from third person.

What else does that vacuum cleaner in the old closet suck up?

Make three two letter names that are believable, and then have the three people meet. All must be from the culture where the name came from.

What’s with that house? Yes folks, let the new HGTV show inspire a piece of prose 300 words long about that strange house on the block.

Write a poem about poetry.

Why do you write? Take 200 words exactly to explain yourself, and then another three hundred about why you’ll totally become rich and famous through writing.

Wow, how shallow can you go? How low can you go? Take that cliché high school romance and turn it around. Four hundred words to set the story up, five hundred in the middle where the original changes take place, and then another two hundred to state how they all died.

Mary had a little lamb, little lamb…etc, etc. Only wait, Mary starts to discriminate against the lambs based on the color of their fur! Gasp! Write a news story covering this breaking investigation.

Everyone knows poetry (dot) com is a scam, so get inside the head of the nasty founder’s minds and write a piece about when they choose to create this evil thing and why.

If you could have dinner with any two people, who would they be, and why? Yes, set this pageant like question in a fictional diner with an annoying clock and write some prose people.

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Author's End Note: Best of luck to you! Always try and give people prompts or tell them to write through their blocks instead of handing them ideas. It works out better for both of you in the end.