Dictionary Writing Prompt #4
What are Writing Prompts?
Writing prompts are literally anything that can prompt a story within you. It can be an event, a sentence, a picture, or even a group of words. They are used to prompt your creative brain to come up with a scene, a short story, a play, or a full novel. Even a movie script can come from a simple writing prompt.
How to Use These Writing Prompts
This is a dictionary writing prompt. Usually, this kind of prompt is done by you pulling out a physical dictionary. Look at some number near you. It can be from a check stub or some papers from work. Choose any number or part of one that fits in the number of pages of your dictionary. For example, I am looking at a piece of paper with the number 492368 on it. So in my dictionary, I look up page 492 and chose the 36th word on it. That is the word I’d use for my writing prompt.
The real challenge is gathering a few of these words and their definition and use a story that can be inspired by those words. And you have to use the words in the story. So if you are writing a short story, those words have to be used in that story. It is fun because you also learn new words.
Below, we have taken the “work” out of finding. You just need to look up the definitions. Write them down. Now look at them to…
