A writing teacher in Tulsa said 90% of prompts fail because they ask for a feeling, not a thing | Creative Writing Prompts

Margaret Lane · 2026-09-23T16:20:02.567883+00:00

She pulled up my "write about a time you were sad" prompt and asked what color the kitchen was, and it hit me that all my best scenes came from small physical details I never thought to ask for. So do you write prompts that hand people a specific object, or do you leave it open and let them pick?

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