In case you are bored one day or need an idea for a journal entry or paper, here are 75 writing prompts.

1. The hands of someone you admire
2. The first time two people see each other
3. What would happen if you had a heart attack right now
4. What would happen if the person next to you had a heart attack
5. Your favorite sunset
6. How it feels to be a dog when your owner goes on vacation (do not reveal you’re a dog until the last sentence)
7. Your favorite sports team and why they are the best EVER
8. The most influential person in America right now
9. The change in season as told by your house
10. 100 years into the future, your love decides to fight a war on mars.
11. Chose a super power write what you would do with it if you only had it for 24 hours
12. If you won the lottery and you had to spend it in one weekend what would your weekend look like? (NO SAVING)
13. What you would do if you became the head commander and chief of the united states military
14. All the things you want to do when you grow up
15. Mowing the lawn as told by a blade of grass
16. Your high school role model
17. A poor misunderstood spider in the shower.
18. The feeling of victory
19. A letter to God
20. Your best friend’s eyes
21. How you got the biggest scar on your body
22. A haiku about yellow
23. A children’s tale about why ice melts
24. Open your year book to a random page, point to a random person, and try to write that person a letter.
25. If everyone told the truth. Always.
26. Grab a magazine, flip to a random page, and write a story about the first picture you see.
27. Your owner coming home after vacation as told by a dog
28. Write the life story of the stranger sitting nearest to you
29. What it’s like to be a Sea Lion in a zoo.
30. A waiter serving a couple clearly on a first date.
31. The sound of breakfast
32. Watching a sunrise from the highest place you’ve ever been.
33. A story where every sentence starts with the letters in your name.
34. A letter to your future kid
35. What you think the world will be like in 10 years
36. Lessons you’ve learned from your parents
37. Your first kiss and worst kiss
38. Your favorite smell
39. What you would do if you woke up in the opposite gender’s body
40. Accidently reading your fiancé’s wedding vows- and not liking them
41. Your car breaks down and you are stuck in the rain
42. Pitch a weird ice cream flavor to the CEO’s of Ben and Jerry’s
43. A descriptive piece about yourself through the eyes of your future spouse
44. A Reverse Poem
45. Grab a book and flip to a random page, then select a sentence and use that as the first sentence to a story
46. 2:45pm without using “2:45pm”
47. The weird/funny things the president does when he thinks he’s alone in the oval office
48. A collection of “most embarrassing moments”
49. A day in the life of You in 10 years
50. A day in the life of You 10 years ago
51. A tornado warning sounds and you are stuck in the basement with the person you despise the most. What happens?
52. Grab a friend and take turns writing one sentence each about your favorite holiday. Don’t tell each other what that holiday is- once you are done you will have quite the story about thanks-Christmas
53. Write about the person you think of when you read the word “Forgiveness”
54. If you had to marry someone from high school, who is it and why them?
55. A bartender watching two people fall in love
56. If you found out you have been raised by your mom AND her identical twin you didn’t know she had.
57. Write about the most important family heirloom and why it means so much to you
58. About your best friend’s ex
59. Your biggest regret and what you would have done to change it
60. 6:00am without using “6:00am”
61. If you won the 20-million-dollar lottery and you had to spend all of it without saving any, what would you spend it on.
62. A funny craigslist add for something you should do today that you don’t want to
63. A competition of who can hold on the longest between the last two leaves on a tree- and the winner.
64. The angriest you have ever been
65. The experience of a child getting lost at the fair
66. The dream career/life of someone who peaked in high school, and what actually happened 5 years after.
67. A widowed woman hears a baby crying in a dumpster. She’s desperate for a child of her own, so she takes the baby home.
68. The thoughts of someone who can’t sleep at night
69. An introverts first time at a house party
70. About your life as told by your parents
71. The questions you want to ask your significant other
72. All the people you’ve ever fell in love with
73. What it is like to be tired without using the word tired or any synonym
74. A single parent runs out of gas on the freeway and has no cell service to call for help
75. Write the memory that comes to mind when you read the word “joyful”