Do you want to know how to use the writing ideas you find on this blog? I’m going to give you some suggestions and tips. Read on.

Writing Prompts – General Instructions

As you must have noticed, the vast majority of the writing prompts you find at All Writing Ideas consists in sets of elements.

You don’t have to take such elements literally, i. e., you don’t necessarily should stick to their actual meaning. You are free to view them as starting points, rather than “unbreakable rules.”

On the other hand, you can challenge yourself to write a piece that uses those words and phrases exactly as they are. It’s up to you, really.

Fiction and Poetry Writing Prompts

Suppose you find a post containing the following writing prompt set: love me / mobile phone vendors / all the way. How could you use it?

A few ideas: pick only one element (”mobile phone vendors,” for instance) and write about it; craft 3 interconnected short stories, each of them dealing with one of those elements; write a story based on all of these elements, but do not mention any of them directly.

See? It’s easy. Now take it from here and invent your own uses for the fiction/poetry writing prompts you find at All Writing Ideas.

Article Writing Ideas / Blogging Ideas

These are practically ready to use. All you have to do is research the topics, in case you aren’t too familiar with them. Or find a new approach to the proposed subjects when you realise there are too many articles about them already.

If you write for content sites and/or article directories (Associated Content, HubPages, EZine Articles, Squidoo, Helium etc. etc. etc.), the nonfiction ideas can help you keep on producing new pieces. If you write for print publications, perhaps our prompts will give you something to pitch about. And if you have your own blog, the starting point for your next post may be here at All Writing Ideas.

Journal Writing Prompts

You’ll rarely find only one option when you read our journal writing prompts. Most times, you’ll see that each post revolves around one specific topic, but offers you some alternatives in case you don’t feel like writing about the first proposed idea.

Of course, you don’t necessarily have to pick only one alternative from a journal prompt post. You can use all of the options if you wish. I’d suggest that you saved each of them for a different journal entry, but that’s just me.

Picture Writing Prompts

I could have added those to the “Fiction & Poetry Inspiration” category. I didn’t because I thought of the visual oriented writers out there. They deserved a link for quick access to the prompts of their interest.

The visual writing prompts work just like their written counterparts. You can use each image as a stand-alone source of inspiration, or may consider all of them when developing your plot. You can even mix picture and text writing prompts to create your new piece or modify an ongoing one.