Getting started is the most important part of writing. For your inspiration, here are 66 6 word story starters and prompts. They can be used as the opening lines of your story, or you could use them to build a scene, which you’d later incorporate into a longer story. However you like to use writing prompts, enjoy!
- I didn’t mean to do it.
- This was risky. Getting involved with…
- “Turn round” he said “and walk….”
- Her heart was well and truly…
- Rage bubbled daily. It burned like….
- The day he didn’t come home…
- She’d always liked diamonds but this…
- The greatest love story ever told
- A piercing scream and then silence
- Waiting for the bus, she looked like…
- I’m (*name). This is my story.
- It was done, and he was….
- Today is the day that I
- Ring Ring. “Hello, is he there?
- Once upon a time, down by….
- Twice she knocked on the door
- It was a beautiful little trinket
- The sun rose over the village
- The door slammed shut behind her…
- “What do you mean by that?”
- It was not really a shock.
- He said he hated wearing ties
- The explosion boomed across the valley
- She’d regret drinking that second cocktail
- There was nothing but silence. Nothing
- (*Insert Name) was not to be messed with
- The advert was placed in the……
- Midnight. What happened next would be……
- It was a totally normal day
- She always said she would meet……
- Four hooded figures slipped across the….
- Any second now, life would change..
- It was now or never. Nervously she…
- He’d escaped. He breathed in deeply.
- Flashbacks. The never-ending circle of….
- Turns out the car wasn’t stolen
- I never knew what it felt…..
- The garden was beautiful at night.
- Choices aren’t always easy. This was…
- You’d be surprised if I said…
- We woke up with only one….
- “This better be good” she sighed.
- It was the night before the….
- She thought she was invincible
- The letter arrived on the Monday…
- Certainty would have been a bonus.
- At least he was still alive
- Hurtling towards earth, he had a
- Wedding bells chimed. People threw confetti.
- Looking back, it was never likely…
- “Were you followed?” he asked menacingly.
- It was a chance meeting online…
- He had promised to find her
- I got all the winning numbers!
- The aeroplane was delayed. Great start!
- One word. Just one single word.
- Hurting him was not an option
- A great friend is a blessing
- “So, what’s it to be sunshine?”
- Being woken up by shouting was
This is post 24 of 100 blogs in 100 days.
