25 Prompts To Start Your Story
OK. Are you ready? Here are 25 prompts that will help you get your brain in gear to write your first (or second, or third) tale from the front porch.
1. We were sitting on the front porch one night and…
Memories
2. The last summer on the porch before everything changed.
3. That one neighbor’s voice that could turn an evening on the porch around.
4. The scent of _ always brings me back to our front porch.
5. The time you said goodbye on the porch steps.
6. I overheard the adults talking on the porch and…
7. I’ll never forget the nigh the front porch light stayed on ‘till dawn.
8. I thought it was a small moment, but now I see it meant everything.
On Our Street
9. There was one neighbor on our street who saw everything we did.
10. The house with the porch no one ever used.
11. Gossip traveled from porch-to-porch on our street.
12. That night, everyone was out on their porch looking at…
13. When you live on a street with a hundred front porches, you have 200 parents.
14. I sat on the porch waiting for…
15. The one porch in the neighborhood where everyone gathered was…
You’ll Never Believe…
16. If I hadn’t been sitting on the front porch that night…
17. When we were kids, the porches on our street weren’t just porches.
18. They walked onto the porch, and my whole life changed.
19. Walking down the street, I overheard the most amazing…
20. Everyone saw it from there porch, but nobody wanted to believe it.
21. …And then the storm came in.
22. We were just sitting on the porch when suddenly…
23. No, I’m serious, the raccoon/squirrels/mouse was as big as…
24. I didn’t sleep for a week after hearing that story.
25. I never thought I’d see the day my neighbor _.
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