15 Places to Find Writing Prompts Online

Writing prompts make it easy to stimulate the creative process and find something to write about. There are many different sites online that provide prompts for writers of every genre. Here are 15 places to explore when you feel like practicing your craft:

Writer's Digest - The Writer's Digest, an online writing information warehouse, provides 96 different writing prompts. The prompts cover a wide variety of subjects and will work for almost any writer.

WritingFix - WritingFix offers a random writing prompt generator that is good for improving writing skills. The 542 writing prompts are designed to spark imagination and creativity in writers.

Be Creative - Within the Be Creative site, you can find creative writing prompts designed specifically for adults. These prompts work well for creative writing and English journals.

Creative Writing Prompts - This site provides 329 writing prompts listed by number. Simply place your cursor over a certain number and write away.

Language Is a Virus - The Language Is a Virus site provides a writing prompt generator with prompts for fiction writers, essay writers, philosophers, and poets.

Ink Provoking - New writing prompts are added to the Ink Provoking site every Monday. Site visitors can also browse through previous prompts.

30 Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month - The Book of Kells blog lists 30 writing prompts and exercises for poetry writers.

Super Teacher Worksheets - The Super Teacher Worksheet features creative writing prompts for use with daily journals. The 30 writing prompts cover general everyday ideas that users can easily write using imagination or memories.

Write Source - Write Source features a large collection of writing prompts separated into writing levels. The prompts cover everything from very simple writing concepts to advanced writing concepts.

Fiction Writing Prompts - The About.com Guide to Fiction Writing provides several writing prompts and exercises for fiction writers.

The Writing Journal - The Writing Journal from Tooter4Kids.com offers a wide variety of writing prompts for young writers. Other features include writing topics and links to other writing prompt sites.

Write On - The Write On site offers a writing prompt generator that's great for journal writing and essay writing. Some of the prompts are geared toward young writers; others are geared toward adults.

TheTeachersCorner.net - This site offers an archive of daily writing prompts for beginner and intermediate writers. The prompts work especially well for everyday journalists.

ClassBrain.com - Writing teachers can use the ClassBrain.com writing prompts to inspire imagination and creative writing with the help of the famous Harry Potter series of books.

Everyday Spelling - This spelling site features an assortment of writing prompts for 1st through 8th graders. The prompts encourage writing that is as simple as a note to writing that is as complicated as a personal narrative. This is a excellent way to improve students' writing, spelling, and proofreading skills.

Guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about online schools for OnlineSchool.net.