Find a place for your words to begin.
Sometimes the hardest part of writing is not knowing what to say. You may have something sitting beneath the surface – a feeling you cannot quite name, a story you have not figured out how to tell, an image you cannot stop thinking about , or simply the desire to create without knowing where to begin.
This is what this space is for. Here you will find thoughtful journal prompts, creative writing prompts, poetry prompts, and visual inspiration designed to help you slow down, explore what is inside you, and put something honest on the page.
You do not need to be an experienced writer. You do not need the perfect notebook, the perfect words, or even a clear idea. You only need somewhere to begin.
What do you want to write today?
Choose a direction or follow whichever one feels right.
Journal Prompts
For understanding what you think, feel, want and need. Use these prompts when you want to slow down, step away from the noise and listen more closely to yourself.
Poetry Prompts
Poetry does not always begin with an idea. Sometimes it begins with an emotion, image, memory, or a question. Start with a feeling and discover where the poem takes you.
Creative Writing Prompts
For when you want to make something from nothing. Start with an unanswered question, a memory, or a strange question and see where it takes you.
Image Prompts
Sometimes an image gives your imagination somewhere to land before your mind has time to decide that it has nothing to say. Let an image spark a story or a poem.
Featured Prompt Collections
Not sure to where to begin? Start with one of these thoughtfully curated collections.
Journaling
Slow down, sort through your thoughts, and understand yourself more clearly.
Poetry
Begin with an emotion, image, memory, or question and discover where the poem takes you.
Creative Writing
Find characters, stories, scenes, and ideas when imagination needs somewhere to start.
Let the Image Begin the Story
Choose the image that catches your attention first. Don’t overthink it. Then see where your imagination takes you. You don’t have to follow the starting prompts.
A New beginning
I never knew it could feel like this…
Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash
I’m tired
I’m tired of running, I just want to stay here.
Illustration by Ands Mahardika on Unsplash
Flame
A tiny flicker was all it took
Photo by enrico bet on Unsplash
The Empty Road
Where does it lead when no one is watching?
Photo by Pavel Orange on Unsplash
Time
Write about time as something that refuses to move forward.
Illustration by Bayram Bilici on Unsplash
Need just one prompt?
What part of yourself has become quieter over the years, and what would it look like to welcome that part back?
Give yourself ten minutes. Don’t edit. Don’t worry about making it sound beautiful. Just answer honestly.
FREE RESOURCE
30 Journal Prompts to Help You Find Your Voice
Gentle, reflective prompts created to help you slow down, understand what you feel and reconnect with your voice.
New From the Prompt Library
Writing changes depending on the season of life you are in. A question that means nothing to you today may become exactly the question you need six months from now.
50 Poetry Prompts for When You Don’t Know What to Write
Explore 50 poetry prompts designed to spark ideas, break through writer’s block, and help you turn memories, emotions, and images into poems.
50 Creative Writing Prompts for When You Don’t Know What to Write
Explore 50 creative writing prompts with story starters, characters, setting, mysteries, and ideas to help you start writing when you feel stuck.
50 Journal Prompts for Self-Discovery and Finding Yourself
Explore 50 journal prompts for self-discovery to reconnect with yourself, clarify what matters, and reflect on who you are becoming.
Come back whenever you need somewhere to begin.
New prompts, poetry, reflective writing, and creative encouragement are always being added to Primrose Writes.
“I let my fingers wander amongst the keys that spill the hurt of my soul into the world, wondering where they will end up and who will rejoice upon hearing them. My words, my soul, my longing for a home lies within these words I now no longer call my own.” – Primrose
May these prompts give your words a place to call home.
