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16 Brainstorming Techniques to Boost Your Writing Skills
https://ivypanda.com/blog/brainstorming-techniques/

100+ Creative Writing Exercises for Fiction Authors
https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-exercises/

200+ Short Story Ideas (and How to Come Up With Your Own) https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story-ideas/
This list on Reedsy is updated with new writing prompts weekly, and is searchable by genre.

Best Creative Writing Exercises
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-creative-writing-exercises_n_805914
Ten exercises from the Huffington Post.

Creative Writing Prompts - Writer's Digest
https://www.writersdigest.com/prompts

Daily Writing Tips
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/writing-prompts-101/

Forward Motion Random Idea Generator
http://www.fmwriters.com/community/dc/Random_Zettercise.php
Excellent story prompts for speculative fiction writers.

Poets & Writers: The Time Is Now
https://www.pw.org/writing-prompts-exercises
Prompts for fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and "beginners."

Plot Generator
https://blog.reedsy.com/plot-generator/

A Selection of Fiction Exercises from The 3 A.M. Epiphany
https://mysite.du.edu/~bkiteley/exercises.html

WritingExercises.co.uk
https://writingexercises.co.uk/index.php
This site uses random generators to create exercises based on subjects, names, prompts, characters and much more. Click on Random Subject to generate freewriting prompts.
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