I thought writing prompts had to be deep until a guy at a diner in Tulsa handed me one on a napkin | Creative Writing Prompts

Aaron Thomas · 2026-10-12T18:35:03.654402+00:00

I used to skip anything that wasn't a big heavy idea about life and death. Then last Tuesday this older guy at a diner counter in Tulsa saw me scribbling and slid me a napkin that just read "write about the last thing you lost." I wrote 600 words about a $9 glove I dropped off a bridge in 8th grade and it was the most fun I'd had writing in a while. Now I grab dumb little prompts on purpose. What's the smallest prompt that got you going?

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