The Industrious Inkwell

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Starting today, I’ll be posting prompts here twice a month. I’ll include one prompt for writing, and one prompt for art in each post. The prompts aren’t limited based on age/schooling like the magazine is, so anyone’s welcome to comment below with whatever they create! Just please keep everything family-friendly.

So, here’s the very first set of prompts:

For Writers:

Write a short story about a Zoggler. A Zoggler can be whatever you want it to be—an outlandish machine, a magical creature, the name of an eccentric character—be creative!


For Artists:

Choose a medium you don’t usually use and create a picture of something in the room that you’re in right now.

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One response to “Writing & Art Prompts: Week 1”

  1. Samuel Schall Avatar

    Here’s something I wrote for this prompt. I’m sharing it as a Word Document, so it doesn’t take up so much space here in the comments section!

    the-machine and the zoggler-2026-02-02T09_02_28.docx

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