prompts

Here is the list of writing prompts for the 2009/10 YWP Newspaper Series.

Hello all. I'm helping out over here at the YWP offices this week, and GG gave me the lovely job of typing up all the prompts that people wrote on the giant sheet of paper at the most recent workshop. In between some random tic-tac-toe games and nonsensical musings, I found a fair amount of good prompts (it was quite a challenge to move the paper around.) Here they are: AND GG IS SCREAMING (sort of) TO ADD YOUR OWN SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS BELOW!

MUSIC- Why do you like it?

End a story with the words, “Oh yeah- this is fiction. You know that, right?”

Describe a rainbow. Don’t use any color names (at all)

Write about your best experience in the rain.

Use the words “carnivorous plants attacked” in a poem.

Tell the story of a small building and how it adjusts to all the new
owners, changes, etc.

Write an entire poem without the use of two letters (ie. S, U, B…)

Write a nonsense piece that somehow makes sense.

Here are the writing prompts for the 2008/09 YWP Newspaper Series.

The deadline for these prompts has passed. Submissions to these prompts cannot be considered for publication.

1. Historical Photo. Tell the story of the two people in this photo from the 1941 Vermont State Fair in Rutland. Or tell a story about a time when you went to the fair.
Alternate: I ran through the woods ... Tell a story or write a poem in which you use those words.

Note: Do not submit work to these prompts; their deadlines have passed.

1. Expectations. What expectations do you have? What are others’ expectations of you? Have you ever had an experience that didn’t meet your expectations? Or did?

These were the writing prompts for the 2006-07 school year. Feel free to use them, and you can make submissions on these topics under "General" in the 2007-08 year, but we have new prompts for 2007-08 year.

Last year's prompts: