Writing prompts via e-mail?

Question

I'm always stumped on what to write about (and I love to write). Does anyone know a website or two that offers free writing prompts and sends them via e-mail daily, like a newsletter? I've looked, and I can't find any services that are free.

Answer 1

hmm..its rare for websites to offer free writing prompt services.

try this website..it offers free or paid subscriptions.

http://www.writing.com/page/writing_prompts/writing_prompts.html

in exchange, can you possibly help me out on my paper?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkV3FPzbF3wGIiIPO2KOYTnsy6IX?qid=20060826150410AAW9iiD

Answer 2

i don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but you might try brian eno and peter schmidt's oblique strategies cards (you can read them online, but i'm not sure if you can get them sent to you... probably, though - my understanding of rss feeds, and the like, is crap. you may want more than one per day, however!). they're meant to jog your creativity, when you're a bit stuck (and this from a very creative guy). "The deck itself had its origins in the discovery by Brian Eno that both he and his friend Peter Schmidt (a British painter whose works grace the cover of "Evening Star" and whose watercolours decorated the back LP cover of Eno's "Before and After Science" and also appeared as full-size prints in a small number of the original releases) tended to keep a set of basic working principles which guided them through the kinds of moments of pressure - either working through a heavy painting session or watching the clock tick while you're running up a big buck studio bill. Both Schmidt and Eno realized that the pressures of time tended to steer them away from the ways of thinking they found most productive when the pressure was off. The Strategies were, then, a way to remind themselves of those habits of thinking - to jog the mind.".
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/OSintro.html
hope that helps.

Answer 3

Here's a site with writing prompts:
http://www.writersdigest.com/writingprompts.asp
Try this site for getting prompts emailed to you:
http://www.writing.com/page/writing_prompts/writing_prompts.html
http://freelancewrite.about.com/b/a/255451.htm