Anyone who engages in creative outlets has experienced a creativity block at one point in their lives or another. We've all spent hours sitting at our desks staring at a blank piece of paper, an annoyingly white canvas, or an empty computer screen trying to figure out the beginning point of our art. But fear no more! Here is 10 prompts to inspire the blocked writer, the idealess artist, and the uninspired creator.

1. You have been invisible for about 300 years and have wandered around the world, learning more and more about many different cultures. On a bright sunny day in 517 BCE, you were walking through an ancient Persian bazaar in Persepolis when you see a girl make eye contact with you. But she wasn't supposed to be able to see you.

2. You're spending what you think is just another ordinary day at your favorite bookstore when you notice a door that you were positive wasn't there before. You make your way to the door and open it to see a narrow set of stone stairs leading up. You climb the stairs to see a man in what appears to be his twenties in an oversized robe and a witch hat. "Oh good," he says as he fiddles with an obscure-looking plant behind a giant pot, "I was beginning to think my portal was invaded by monsters. Welcome to the world of the witches."

3. You are a knight who was just ordered by the King to rescue the Princess from a dragon that had taken her away when she was 16 years old. You ride to the dragon's lair to find out that the Princess is a shapeshifter and had staged her own kidnapping to escape the castle and explore the world.

4. An assassin has been cursed to relive the moments of his victims' deaths from their point of view every time he goes to sleep.

5. A tragic love story between a princess and a stablehand. After learning that her parents, the King and Queen, do not approve, the two elope only to be chased by the princess's brothers. Unable to watch her family and her lover fight each other to the death, the princess snaps all of her lover's arrows in half, leaving him unable to defend himself. The princess's brothers shoot her lover and arrive to rescue her to see that she has killed herself by drinking poison (inspired by the love story of Mirza and Sahiban).

6. The fire consumes everything around them. He straightens his vest and cups her tearstained cheek in his as blood drips down the side of his face. He smiles. "I'll see you in the next life, my love," he whispers, and the fire engulfs them both.

7. In a world where every evil act you commit stains your physical body, a minor god almost dies from the darkness enveloping his body after committing various misdeeds to try and save his human lover from dying of an illness. She dies and he spends the next seven hundred years hating humans and fearing getting close to them. He is then entrusted with the care of an 18-year-old girl who was appointed his master and they slowly find themselves falling in love.

8. You were born without emotions. Desperate to feel something, you create a donation box where people can donate their unwanted emotions. For twenty years, the only emotions you have felt were sadness, fear, and loneliness. Finally, one day, someone donates joy.

9. In a town, when someone turns sixteen, they are given a cup of tea. The color that the tea turns when they touch their right index finger to the hot water indicates their occupation. People have received red and gone to the town's military, those with yellow work in the King's court, orange tea led the people to agricultural fields, green had taken people to the local and court herbalists, blue meant the people would spend their life fishing, and purple indicated chefs. On your sixteenth birthday, your tea turned black. Turns out your job is to collect people's lives and memories when they die.

10. You have the ability to taste lies. One day, your parents tell you about how you were born but remain unaware of the foul taste that coats your tongue.

I hope that these prompts has inspired a creativity flow or artistic vision for you! Happy creating :)

Much love,

~n