Writing Prompts
Sometimes the hardest part of writing is getting started. Writefully So includes a warm-up writing prompt system — 394 hand-crafted prompts to help you find your words before diving into your manuscript.
The warm-up card lives on your Project Overview (the corkboard). It’s there at the start of every session, quiet and ready.
How It Works
Section titled “How It Works”When you open a project, you’ll see a prompt in the warm-up card. Write freely in the text area below it — there’s no word count pressure, no saving required. The response auto-saves as you go.
At the end of the session (or whenever you want), the response is stored in your writing history so you can look back at what came out.
Getting a New Prompt
Section titled “Getting a New Prompt”Two ways to get a prompt:
- Shuffle (the arrows icon) — picks a random prompt from the full pool, different from the last one
- Browse all (the list icon) — opens the full prompt browser so you can pick exactly what you want
The shuffle leans toward prompts relevant to your project — if you have characters and codex entries, it’ll pull in their names to make the prompt feel personal.
Browsing All Prompts
Section titled “Browsing All Prompts”Click the list icon to open the prompt browser. All 394 prompts are organized into six categories:
| Category | What it is |
|---|---|
| Craft Exercises | Dialogue, sensory description, structure constraints, voice and style |
| Your Story | Character-specific prompts using your actual characters’ names |
| Get Unstuck | Short, low-friction prompts for when you’re blocked |
| Re-entry | Prompts designed to get you back into a project you’ve been away from |
| Revision | Prompts that sharpen prose — cuts, pacing, transitions |
| Theme & Meaning | Deeper questions about what your story is actually about |
Click any prompt to use it immediately. The currently active prompt is highlighted. The browser closes as soon as you pick one.
When to Use Prompts
Section titled “When to Use Prompts”- Opening a session — Write for 5–10 minutes before touching your manuscript. It warms up the muscle.
- Blocked — A prompt shifts your brain out of “stuck” mode. You don’t have to use what you write.
- Practicing a specific skill — Filter to Craft Exercises and drill dialogue, or sensory work, or voice.
- Coming back after a break — The Re-entry category is specifically for this. It eases you back in without pressure.
History
Section titled “History”Click History in the footer of the warm-up card to see past sessions. Each entry shows the date, the prompt you responded to, and a word count. Click any entry to expand the full response.
Past warm-ups are stored locally in your project and can be deleted individually.
- Don’t overthink it — the whole point is to write without judging. It’s a warm-up, not a chapter.
- Set a timer for 5–10 minutes and write until it goes off, regardless of how good it feels.
- The “Your Story” prompts become much richer as you add more characters and codex entries — the app fills in real names automatically.
- Your response is auto-saved every 500ms once you start typing. You won’t lose anything.