Opinion & Commentary
Help YWP create inspiring challenges for writing or visual art! Think about what makes an interesting prompt – what would you respond to? – and share that idea with us. The challenge must be original, not borrowed from the internet or elsewhere. We'll add it to our Weekly Challenges list and credit you.
[Illustration: "Think" by Ice Blink, YWP]
Identity is a huge part of our lives, because it makes up everything about who we are and how we move about the world. And part of our identity is where we are from.
Furries and therians (I hoped I spelt those correctly) get lots of hate these days for simply existing. They’ve received death threats, and hate comments, and sometimes physical abuse for being themselves.
Ross Gay, a famed poet and essayist whose works include Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude and Bringing The Shovel Down, is known for his essayettes of delights, compiled in The Book of Delights and The Book of More De
If you could become an animal what animal would it be? Would you retain your human mind? Write about a day in the body of an animal.
Write a poem with two stanzas, about your favorite childhood character. The first stanza should be about what you thought of the as a child, and the second what you think of them now.
Write a short story or poem about a time traveler or time travelers. Where and when are they going? Where and when are they coming from? What are they going to do when they get there?
Write a story, poem, or create your own way to express what you want to be when you grow up. This could be written about what you want to have accomplished by the next four, ten, twenty, or even fifty years.
The transition between seasons is a momentous change for some people, and just another day for others. Write a piece that represents what the changing of the Seasons means to you!
Write a fiction or non-fiction story in poetry or prose about the lifetime of an accessory, (a bracelet, watch, favorite pair of shoes, anything you wear every day) from when you get it to the time you must throw it away through this object's eyes
if you could run away, where would you go? who would you go to? why would you run away? this could be super fun and interesting, I personally would enjoy responding to this challenge!
I think it would be cool to do a challenge about the multiverse. It could be if you think multiverses are real, or a fictional story about if you somehow encountered yourself in another multiverse.