We’re deep into lockdown and there’s never been a better time to crack open that notebook you’ve been saving and start our 30-writing challenge. Poetry, prose, screen or articles – just follow the prompts below to join in!
- Start off small, write about your four walls
- Describe a villain
- Revisit your Nintendogs. What’re they up to?
- Write about your first love
- Review the last book you read (or film you watched, if it be like that)
- Write about what someone else is doing in the lockdown
- Edit an old piece into a new medium
- Sit outside and free-write for 30 minutes
- Turn on Bailrigg FM and write about what’s on…
- Write about a horoscope
- Keep a diary for a day
- Write a feature article about someone you find interesting
- Retell your favourite book as a poem
- Create a mythical creature and go nuts on the exposition
- Break the ‘Governments must be Monarchies’ cliché
- Write about mental health
- Rewrite a fairy tale
- Turn off your WiFi and free-write
- Try a medium you’ve never written before (screenplay, haiku, song)
- Write about God
- The language of flowers
- Break the tattoo shop/flower shop cliché
- Open the nearest book and use the first sentence as your first line
- Write about a bored widow
- Write something outside of your comfort zone
- Go for a walk and find a new writing spot
- Describe something you find stunning
- Something history forgot
- Find somewhere weird to write about
- Put your playlist on shuffle and free-write until the first song finishes
Write as much or as little, as close or as far from the prompt as you want. But make sure to take plenty of photos of you and your writing to share on socials with #WritingFromLockdown – and tag @scanlancaster on Instagram!
