writing prompts
67 prompts tagged writing, drawn from 13 categories. All free to copy, and all editable once they are in your own library.
🔮 Astrology & tarot💼 CV & career🔍 Code review & debugging🍳 Cooking & food🎨 Design & UX📄 Documentation✉️ Email & messages🎁 Gifts & occasions📝 Meetings & notes🗺️ Product & planning🔬 Research & comparison⚖️ Thinking & decisions✈️ Travel & places
- Write a horoscope in a specific voiceWriting a column, a newsletter, or a birthday card and you want it to sound like someone.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Write text for a ritual or intention settingYou want words for a new moon, a solstice, or a personal marker, and not cosmic wallpaper.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Write about a card without the usual phrasesWriting card descriptions for a deck, a book, or a newsletter and everything sounds the same.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Critique a reading I have writtenBefore you send a written reading to someone who is going to take it seriously.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Is this reading too vague?Before you send a written reading to someone who will take it seriously.Short🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Short horoscope in a particular voiceWriting a column or a card and wanting it to sound like someone wrote it.Medium🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Write about this card without the usual phrasesWriting card descriptions and finding every draft sounds like every other one.Medium🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Check this reading before I send itA last pass for vagueness and overreach before someone else reads it.Medium🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Rewrite my CV bullets to lead with outcomesYour bullets describe duties and you want them to describe results.Long💼 CV & career
- Cover letter that does not sound like everyone else'sWhen the application asks for a letter and you're tempted to reuse the same one.Long💼 CV & career
- Write my LinkedIn About sectionYour profile summary is empty, or it is three sentences of job-title soup.Long💼 CV & career
- Write the case for my promotionPromotion season, and you need a document your manager can take upstairs.Long💼 CV & career
- Draft my performance self-reviewThe review form is open, the deadline is Friday, and your memory of March is gone.Long💼 CV & career
- Write up a portfolio projectA project you're proud of that currently has a screenshot and one sentence.Long💼 CV & career
- One bio, three lengthsConference forms, podcast intros and Slack profiles all want a different size.Long💼 CV & career
- A networking message that is not cringeworthyReaching out cold to someone whose work you actually rate.Long💼 CV & career
- Post-interview follow-up noteThe day after an interview, when "thanks for your time" is not enough.Long💼 CV & career
- Write a resignation letterYou've decided to leave and the letter should be short, warm and final.Long💼 CV & career
- A better verb for thisBullets that all start with "responsible for" or "helped with".Short💼 CV & career
- Three cover letter openingsThe first paragraph is the only one they are guaranteed to read.Medium💼 CV & career
- Commit message from a diffEvery commit. Especially the ones you'd otherwise call "fix stuff".Medium🔍 Code review & debugging
- Write the PR descriptionOpening a pull request someone else has to review.Long🔍 Code review & debugging
- Write down a recipe I cook from memoryThe thing you make constantly and have never written down, before you forget it.Long🍳 Cooking & food
- Rewrite the microcopy on this screenBefore shipping a screen where the words started as placeholders you never revisited.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Write up the rationale for this design decisionDocumenting a decision before everyone forgets why it was made.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Write the doc comment this function deservesA function whose name and types don't tell the whole story.Long📄 Documentation
- Write a getting-started guide that ends in a winNew users install the thing and then don't know what to do next.Long📄 Documentation
- Write changelog entries from these commitsCutting a release and the commit log is not a changelog.Long📄 Documentation
- Write a migration guide for a breaking changeShipping a major version and users have to change their code.Long📄 Documentation
- Write an architecture decision recordA decision was made in a meeting and will be questioned in a year.Long📄 Documentation
- Build a troubleshooting page from real failuresThe same three problems keep arriving in your support inbox.Long📄 Documentation
- Explain this for a non-technical readerWriting for support, sales, or a stakeholder who needs the shape not the detail.Long📄 Documentation
- Document a config option properlyAdding a setting that someone will have to tune under pressure.Long📄 Documentation
- Turn a support thread into a docs pageYou just answered the same question for the fourth time in a ticket.Long📄 Documentation
- Write examples that aren't toysDocs whose only example is foo and bar and helps nobody.Long📄 Documentation
- Write onboarding docs for a new teammateSomeone starts Monday and the setup knowledge lives in three people's heads.Long📄 Documentation
- Turn an internal spec into user-facing docsThe feature shipped and the only writing about it is the design doc.Long📄 Documentation
- One-line descriptionThe first sentence of a README, or a repo description field.Short📄 Documentation
- Turn these bullets into a readable messageYou have rough notes and they need to become something a person will read.Long✉️ Email & messages
- Draft the reply to thisA message with four questions in it that you keep putting off.Medium✉️ Email & messages
- A card message that isn't genericThe blank card sitting on the table that you keep walking past.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Write a toast I can actually deliverTwo minutes standing up with a glass, and you'd rather not read it off your phone.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- A thank-you note worth receivingAfter a gift, a stay, a favour, or someone doing more than they had to.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- A condolence message that doesn't reach for platitudesSomeone has died and you've been staring at the message box for twenty minutes.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Write the invitationWhen people need to know what this is, what to wear, and whether to eat first.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- A card message nobody else could receiveThe blank card on the table you keep walking past.Short🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Ninety seconds of toastStanding up with a glass and no wish to read off your phone.Short🎁 Gifts & occasions
- What do I write in a condolence card?Staring at a blank card after someone has died.Short🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Card message, warmer and drierWhen you want to see the same message at two temperatures before choosing.Medium🎁 Gifts & occasions
- A thank-you note that shows I noticedAfter a gift, a stay, or someone doing more than they had to.Medium🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Write a pre-read people will actually readWhen the meeting only works if everyone arrives with the same context.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Chase actions nobody clearly ownsA week after a meeting, when half the actions have quietly not happened.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Turn this meeting into a decision recordAfter a meeting where something important was settled and will be questioned later.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Compress an update into a chat messageWhen the status belongs in Slack, not in a document nobody opens.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Write a weekly update for my managerFriday afternoon, summarising a week you can barely remember.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Decline or shrink a meeting politelyAn invite arrives that should be 15 minutes, three people, or an email.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Turn this into a team updateNotes that need to become a message people will actually read.Short📝 Meetings & notes
- Write the follow-up messageThe message you send an hour after the meeting to make it stick.Medium📝 Meetings & notes
- Draft a PRD from my notesThe work is agreed in conversation and now needs a document people can disagree with.Long🗺️ Product & planning
- Announce that a feature is going awayRemoving something people use, and the announcement has to do the hard part.Long🗺️ Product & planning
- Write release notes people will actually readShipping a version and the changelog currently says "various improvements".Long🗺️ Product & planning
- One-line release noteA change that needs describing to users, not engineers.Short🗺️ Product & planning
- Release notes from a changelogA pile of merged changes that needs to become an announcement.Medium🗺️ Product & planning
- Write a briefing note from my researchTurning a pile of notes into one page a busy person will actually read.Long🔬 Research & comparison
- Write a decision recordRight after a call is made, while the reasoning is still in your head.Long⚖️ Thinking & decisions
- Write this decision downRecording a call so the reasoning survives the next six months.Medium⚖️ Thinking & decisions
- Turn today's notes into a trip diary entryEnd of a travel day, before the details blur into the rest of the trip.Long✈️ Travel & places
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