20 Great Short Story Prompts to Spark Your Creativity

Writing is cognitively tasking and takes a lot out of you. It requires creativity, dedication, vulnerability, and consistent hard work. It’s completely normal to occasionally feel drained of ideas, frustrated or stuck, especially when you’ve been writing consistently for a long period of time. I’ve written the following short story prompts in the hopes that one of them will inspire you to write you’re next story.