Writing Prompts – How They Can Help Your Songwriting

Now that I’ve registered for FAWM’s 50/90 Challenge (50 songs in 90 days) starting on July 4th, I better start preparing myself for the task ahead.

One of the biggest challenges I see myself battling in 50/90 is having to come up with constant flashes of inspiration all the time.

Through my experiences and lots of online research, I’ve come up with or discovered a number of ways to court the muse however, you can never have too many of these techniques at your disposal can you?

I was talking to a couple of writer friends about this on the weekend and they both said to me that they have a book or a website of writing prompts on hand to turn on their brain’s inspiration switch.

Writing prompts! Hmmm, I needed to look into this concept a bit further.

From my research, writing prompts are little snippets of information that a writer can use to start a work of prose, poetry or whatever.

I typed in “writing prompts” in Google and the first site on the search results was www.creativewritingprompts.com.

What I found was a site specifically geared towards creative writers and journallers with over 300 prompts on the front page.

I thought I’d pick a prompt at random and see what it said. I chose number 29 (my lucky number).

“Begin a 500 word piece on… ‘If I had the power to change something, I would change…’”

Using this prompt I could see myself using the 500 word piece as a means to create a song on how I can facilitate change in my life.

Using external stimuli like writing prompts, mindmaps, oblique strategies, newspaper headlines and brainstorming possible song titles to set your creative wheels in motion is essential not only in completing the 50/90 challenge but in maintaining your own songwriting process in general.

If ever there was a time for me to exercise my songwriters mind, it would be now.

Here are five other writing/journaling prompts sites to consider:

Writers Digest – Writing Prompts

Journaling Prompts

Random Daily Writing Prompt Generator

Over 700 Journal Prompts

Creative Writing Prompts

In ten minutes I found these links by typing in “writing prompts” or “journal prompts” in Google. However, when I typed in “songwriting prompts” I found nothing.

What a great idea! A writing prompt site for songwriters. Must look into that one.

If there are any other writing prompt sites that you want to share with me please let me know. In the meantime wish me luck for the 50/90 challenge. If you want to join me, register online.

Until next time, happy writing,

Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician

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Monday, June 30th, 2008 50/90 Challenge

2 Comments to Writing Prompts – How They Can Help Your Songwriting

sanoittaja says:

June 30, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Great links! Thanx for those. Somehow it’s wery difficoult to find anything meanigfull with non main language with out thease kind of recommendations, so keep doing it!