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   College Character Writing Prompts

College Creative Writing Character Topics


1. Omission Prompt

Write a scene in which a character has recently murdered someone. Do not mention the murder.

2. College Character Prompt

Your character is visiting her very conservative parents for the holidays and she didn't bring her husband of a year and a half.

3. College Character Topic

Write about a character who is obsessively cleaning and cleaning the house.

4. College Character Idea

Write about a character who shouts at his boss in the middle of the office Christmas party.

5. College Creative Character

Write about a character who is sitting up at four in the morning, waiting for a car to pull into the driveway.

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