Spring is the season for new beginnings and fresh starts. It’s also the perfect time to launch a writing project. Grab your notebook or laptop and head outside to enjoy the warmer temperatures and let your creativity shine through.
Here are some spring-inspired writing prompts and story starters to help you get going. And don’t forget to share your creations with the Underlined writing community!
Writing Prompts:
1. Write a meet-cute in which two people fall in love over spring break.
2. What is your dream spring break vacation? Where would you go if money was no issue? Who would you go with? What would you do?
3. Imagine you love someone who does not love you back. Write a poem or letter describing how you feel.
4. Put a science-fiction spin on your favorite springtime activity. Do you live on Earth or another planet? What is spring like?
5. While hiding Easter eggs for your younger sister, you stumble across something that will change your life forever. Write a short story about what happens.
Story Starters:
1. A snowflake drifted from the cloudless sky—slowly, like it had all the time in the world—before alighting on a bright red tulip. Only then did the warm spring temperature start to plummet.
2. I don’t know why my mother insisted on hiding my Easter basket. I was too old to even have an Easter basket. But nothing could have prepared me for what I found in it.
3. I needed a fresh start, a new beginning. This time, I thought as I headed for the car, I’ll do things differently.
4. Carefully, I pressed the seeds into the ground and covered them up. I knew these seeds would change my life forever, and I wasn’t about to let them go to waste.
5. I plucked the flower from the ground and tucked it into my bouquet so no one would notice it. Smiling to myself, I joined the rest of the wedding party. Everything was going according to plan.
dbesim
Sep 9, 2019I’ve written a story called Miss Melody’s Box which still needs a little tweaking. It’s 1500 words at the moment and there’s potential for extending the story some more. It follows a prompt that was given to me from a writer’s forum. The prompt was ‘do NOT open the box.’ It explores Pandora’s box in the classroom and whether or not it’s easy to avoid opening a box when told not to.
PeachLily
Aug 8, 2019I’m writing a story Is called The Misguided Elites – Nataly is as professional as she is in ballroom dancing but quite amateur when it comes to her real life at home with her brothers’ insomnia dued to a recent incident of almost being run over by her abusive father getaway truck + her mother’s engagement to Celestlyn Vanavers- a wealthy man who’s Looks and plays the part of new stepfather
New siblings? Her own room?? Her own visa??
But that’s only scratching the surface for what she’ll find under the veil~~
Does it sound good I’m not sure
TheFunWriter1
May 5, 2019WATCH ME!!!! I am going to write 5. Sounds like a fantasy to me. What do you think?
FictionAddiction
May 5, 2019These are awesome, thanks I want to mix the 1 writing prompt with the 4.
Joyful17
Apr 4, 2019I really like the last two prompts!
CollisionOfFates
Apr 4, 2019Four teens who discover that their ordinary may just be extraordinary. 🙂
TehyaTenison1
Apr 4, 2019#3 I know what it feels like
DeliaDreamer93
Apr 4, 2019A story that has monsters ruling the world and people underground that want their freedom back
TeamU
Apr 4, 2019Hi @DeliaDreamer93 that sounds awesome! Can’t wait to read it.
abbyosulli445
May 5, 2019Yeah @deliadreamer93 sounds greattt