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Hogwarts Inspired Writing Prompts

Writing Prompts

As kids, A would always tell B that they’re magic and have magic powers. B didn’t believe them, of course. Now as they reunite during the Hogwarts sorting ceremony, B realises that A was right.

After A is kicked from their quidditch team and replaced with B, A sneaks into their quidditch games and messes with B in the air.

After learning at Hogwarts used to have lots of balls, secret societies, lectures, and other forgotten activities, a group of enthusiastic friends decide to revive those traditions.

A group of restless students decide to form a protest over an arbitrary school issue. They don’t really care about the issue, they just want to do lock-outs, parade around with signs, and do over-the-top displays of rebellion.

A discovers that their best friend B is writing a novel and some of the characters resemble their friend group. To mess with B, A and their friends start reenacting some of the scenes of the book and acting like the characters in it.

Short prompts

An overly competitive game of chess

Getting locked in the library

Conversing with ghosts

The dramatic end to a life long rivalry

Pulling a prank on the wrong person

Studying by candlelight

Anonymous notes

Secretly exchanging potions

Ink stains

Sewing patches to your robes

Oneliners

“Real magic doesn’t come from wands. It’s all around us”

“This club is exclusive— I shouldn’t even be telling you about it”

“There’s more to life than transfiguration”

“Why aren’t you going home for the summer?”

“Then let’s settle this like men: with a duel”

“Weren’t you expelled?” “Yes. But when has that ever stopped me?”

“I snuck this in from the Forbidden Forest”

“I never thought the dungeons were used as actual dungeons”

“This wall is begging for a mural”

“This is Hogwarts. It’s full of secrets”

Also see:

Studying OTP prompts and oneliners

Writing prompts masterlist

Let me know if you like this style of prompts!

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As you write, you will naturally improve. Do not wait until you think you are good enough to start. You are always good enough to start improving.

Discipline is far more important than how much time you have to write. You can’t just quit your job or stop going to school to make more time, but you can learn to make more out of the time that you already have.

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30 Day Fluff Challenge! Every day for thirty days, you’ll be given a sugary sweet prompt.

“You’re my new pillow”

Making pancakes

Birthday

Messing around in IKEA

Painting together

Prom-posal

“If we both want to fit, we’ll have to cuddle”

Comfort food

“This is my favourite place in the whole world”

Wearing each other’s clothes

Crying during a movie

Baking

Getting dressed up for a completely casual date

Taking care of each other while sick

Buying each other a book

“I want to stay up with you”

Sleeping in the same bed for the first time

Pillow forts

Beach day

Drive in movie

Barbecue

Proposal

“Dance with me”

Making each other dinner

Regular at a coffee shop

“Come on. Tell me a story”

Taking care of an animal

Carnival / fair

One year anniversary

First date

Also see:

30 day AU challenge

2021 writing challenge

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If you’re having writers block…READ!!!! CONSUME MEDIA

I feel like I don’t hear that given enough as advice for writers block..just read? Watch tv? Movies? Find inspiration in media.

Writers block is a lack of inspiration, so go collect more.

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fic writers and fan artists be like

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30 Day Fluff Challenge! Every day for thirty days, you’ll be given a sugary sweet prompt.

“You’re my new pillow”

Making pancakes

Birthday

Messing around in IKEA

Painting together

Prom-posal

“If we both want to fit, we’ll have to cuddle”

Comfort food

“This is my favourite place in the whole world”

Wearing each other’s clothes

Crying during a movie

Baking

Getting dressed up for a completely casual date

Taking care of each other while sick

Buying each other a book

“I want to stay up with you”

Sleeping in the same bed for the first time

Pillow forts

Beach day

Drive in movie

Barbecue

Proposal

“Dance with me”

Making each other dinner

Regular at a coffee shop

“Come on. Tell me a story”

Taking care of an animal

Carnival / fair

One year anniversary

First date

Also see:

30 day AU challenge

30 day angst writing challenge

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writing fanfiction is just fingers clenching over a keyboard as you ferally mutter i just want this little guy to be held, damn it and proceeding to hurt said little guy (gn) for about 10k words before you actually give them their hug

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Ok here is a compilation of all the software and useful tools I’ve come across whilst writing. Some of them I’ve reviewed on here already, more coming soon. 

Got an idea? Well get planning! Here’s some useful outlining, brainstorming and mind- mapping software:

Coggle 

Lucidchart

Mural.ly

Blumind

MindMeister

Mindmaple

Mindomo

NovaMind

Popplet

Scapple

Tree Sheets

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)

XMind

FreeMind

Oak Outliner

Work Flowy

The Outliner of Giants

Just want to get writing? You want a word processor:

Gedit

Google Docs

Kate

LibreOffice

Microsoft Word

My Writing Spot

NoteTab

Open Office

Quabel

Ted

Vim

yEdit

Making notes? Here you go:

CintaNotes

Evernote

KeepNote

Memonic

MS OneNote

Scribe

SuperNotecard

Tomboy

Timelines giving you a headache? Try these:

Aeon Timeline 

Dipity

Preceden

Tiki-Toki

Timeglider

Timeline

TimelineJS

TimeToast

Now perhaps you want to organise those notes. Got a lot of research? Character sheets? Images? Well here’s some tools to keep all that together:

Liquid Story Binder XE

LitLift

PangurPad

Scriptito

Scrivener

Writer’s Café

Yarny

yWriter

Are you easily distracted? The following tools will keep you on track:

Dark Room 

FocusWriter

JDarkRoom

Momentum Writer

OmmWriter

Q10

Writemonkey

Zen Writer 

Even more productivity tools to help keep you focussed on your task:

Cold Turkey 

FocalFilter

Freedom

InternetOff

Keepmeout

Nanny

Productivity Owl

RescueTime

SelfControl

SelfRestraint

Simple Blocker

StayFocusd

Strict Workflow

Time Doctor

Waste No Time

Website Blocker

So you’ve got something down? Need to edit? 

AutoCrit

EditMinion

Grammarly

LyX

SlickWrite

SmartEdit

After the Deadline

All done? Perhaps you’d like some e-publishing tools:

Acrobat

InDesign

Calibre

CutePDF

Jutoh

Mobipocket Creator

PagePlus

PageStream

PDFCreator

Scribus

Sigil

Turns out I’d forgotten about screenwriters, so here goes:

CeltX

Plotbot

Scripped   

ScriptBuddy 

Trelby 

WriterDuet 

Slugline 

Page2Stage 

Highland 

I’m feeling generous, have some more cool stuff:

750 Words

One Page per Day

Oneword

Penzu

Write or Die

Written Kitten

Focus Booster

Spaaze

AutoREALM (Map building software)

ETA: After a request I’ve added screenplay software to the list.

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