Scene-Writing Exercises

150 prompts to help you up your scene-writing chops.

Over the years, I have hosted several scene-writing challenges. As a result, there are 150 scene-writing prompts on the site. Here are links to all of them.

Scene-Writing Exercises [2013]

Scene-Writing Exercises [2014]

Scene-Writing Exercises [2015]

Scene-Writing Exercises [2016]

Scene-Writing Exercises [2017]

Scene-Writing Exercises [2018]

Scene-Writing Exercises [2019]

A great thing to do: A free writing exercise. Pick a prompt. Set a timer. Then just feel your way into and through a scene. Do that each day for a week and it can really loosen up your creative muscles.