Lisa Dyer: 321 Creative Writing Prompts

Get your creative juices flowing with this write-in journal, featuring 321 prompts to inspire you.

Whether your interest is crime or memoir, romance or science fiction, here are hundreds of ideas, story starters and one-liners to help you dive into the creative world of writing. Open to any page and get started on these fun, entertaining and thought-provoking exercises, which will help improve your writing skills, overcome writer's block or inspire that novel you've always been meaning to pen.

Explore your memories, experiences, feelings, observations and imagination to create plotlines, characters, settings, dialogue, moods and more - from the realistic to the fantastical. Dip into different genres and try out crime, reportage, romance, adventure, humor, nature and historical writing. You may find that a character you invent starts to take on a life and story of their own, or a scene can be linked to other circumstances to build a plot line, or a memory is a springboard to an autobiography or family genealogical history.

Whether you want to write the next bestseller or just put pen to paper, these writing prompts will stimulate your creativity and spark your storytelling.