Try these new creative writing prompts for story ideas to write a new short story every morning this week.

There are 10 prompts, so you can even combine a few time and still have a different prompt for the next 7 days.

Try it!

story starters

1. Veronica realized now that what she had done had been petty and mean.

2. The plane was scheduled to leave in 2 hours.

3. Maggie hadn’t seen Michael in 5 years, yet she had thought about him every day.

4. Grandmother was dead. And we all knew what that meant.

5. Jason had gotten out of sticky situations before. He could do it again.

6. Janice had been cleaning out her husband’s closet when the found the box, tucked away under a stack of sweaters he never wore anymore.

7. Mavis thought her sister, Irene, had more sense than to do something like this.

8. “Why did you burn your house down, Mrs. Rogers,” asked the detective.

9. She hadn’t meant to kill him. But it was done, and there was only one thing to do now.

10. As improbable as it may sound, years ago, when I was only 5, my mother ran away with the milkman.

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