Happy New Year!

It’s been a little bit over a year since I began posting regular (sometimes weekly) creative prompts for anyone who may find them useful. My normal format now is to post a photograph of something I find interesting or quirky, and to add some thoughts or observations of my own. This is a format that had developed over time – as you’ll see the prompts in 2020 posts were quite minimal, with a photo and a very simple caption. Over time the written parts of the posts have developed into longer, slightly more complicated thoughts or questions. This culminated earlier in the year in the production of a little book of prompts and thoughts about creativity, which you can get here for free if you sign up to my mailing list.

When I started writing this post I had an idea that I would wrap up the year by posting all of the creative prompts from 2021, but as I began going back through my posts I realised that I had actually been posting these for a little bit longer than a year, and that there were patches of time earlier in 2021 when I didn’t post at all. I had wanted to write a post that bought them all together in one place, as thank you for anyone who has been following along with these posts. So, here they are, all 49 of them, in one place. I hope this year proves to be a little kinder to the world than the last two have been.

Prompts from 2020:

• A lost elephant
• Shin bone alley
• I’m watching you
• A rainy afternoon
• A way through the woods
• Among the gravestones
• Mysterious Photographs
• Strange objects in the mist
• Tree vs Sign
• Bejeweled spiders web

Prompts from 2021:

• Tree Vs Wall
• Lost in Croydon #1
• Lost in Croydon #2
• Lost in Croydon #3
• Lost in Croydon #4
• A spring creative prompt
• Foxy came a calling
• The Journey
• A crack in the wall
• Making offerings to trees #1
• Making offerings to trees #2
• Making offerings to trees #3
• Making offerings to trees #4
• Green Dragon Court
• Don’t Slip
• Left broken on the tarmac
• A sign of our times
• I see you
• The missed shot
• Mission Control
• Experiments in YouTube
• Soft Toy
• Broken Strings
• Offerings #1
• Offerings #2
• Offerings #3
• A sacrifice to the weather gods
• You shall go to the ball
• Lost in space
• Lost on the highway
• Toaster on the street
• Space Blanket
• Love Note
• Character Study
• A disagreement
• A key on the pavement
• Red Riding Hood
• A festive find
• The Chariot

Thank you for reading. I also write, make art and films. If you like these prompts and want to get a copy of a free short book of them I wrote, and to hear more about my writing projects please join my mailing list here. You can see my films at my YouTube channel here. You can see things with my designs on at my shop here. Could even treat yourself if you wanted to. Just saying. If buying art is not your thing, but you would like to support what you see I also have a Patreon Page here.