October Writing Prompts

Holly J Woods
3 min readOct 4, 2021

Lots of articles on Medium are praising the practice of writing a story each day. But what if you don’t have enough ideas to last through October?

In this post I will share with you 31jumping off points that should spark an idea or two. Even if you aren’t committed to writing each day it can be easy to run out of ideas, particularly when you write personal essays and have seemingly ran out of Interesting Things That Happened To Me.

Answering these prompts quickly in a journal might spark off ideas for fiction too, or maybe even send you down a rabbit hole of…

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Holly J Woods

I write romance and ghost stories, and sometimes I also write useful things about thriving with ADHD.