Creating Writing Prompts for Pieces that We Would Actually Want to Read
• Write from the perspective of Katy Perry’s makeup artist shit-talking her to another makeup artist while grabbing lunch at Arby’s.
• Imagine an increasingly suicidal man’s food diary.
• Describe the credits for a show starring Simon Cowell as a single dad.
• Write 20 slogans for a product that removes pubic hairs from bathtubs.
• Write a 50 Shades of Grey fan-fic starring J.K. Rowling and a dangerous but alluring lover.
• Imagine someone eating a Pop-Tart and watching Good Morning America just as the apocalypse begins.
• Imagine the McDonald’s dollar menu of the future.
• Write a Wikipedia page with a fictional history of the Flaming Hot Cheeto.
• Imagine the life of a man who makes a living writing emails that will become Viagra-related spam.
• Write a story wherein Taylor Swift is literally the antichrist.
• Write a pamphlet for a religion that involves worshipping pamphlets.
• Write in the perspective of a dog that is mad he’s not internet famous.
• Imagine the journey of a dollar bill that eventually gets tucked into Oprah’s bra.
• Write a story about a man who has a phobia of hair extensions.
• Write from the perspective of Lena Dunham’s HPV virus.
• Write a news story explaining why your town’s newspaper is shutting down.