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Explore the different types of creative writing in this article.

If you like more freedom in your writing prompts, try a first line generator. It’ll get you started with a gentle nudge, but from there, the rest is up to you.

Develop a story line, by generating characters, a setting, a situation and a theme.

Seventh Sanctum is a writing prompt generator that has been stimulating the minds of writers for years. They have a simple, straight-up writing prompt generator, which will often consist of a quote or a line that would serve well as appearing at the beginning of your story. Alternatively, they also have generators for magic, names, settings, organizations, and much more.

Spring Hole has not one, not two, but over twenty different generators. They have more generators than you could ever imagine to be story generators. Since they are organized into so many excellent different categories, you can easily find a prompt generator that will go along with your current mood.

Story Shack’s writing prompt generator gives you a target word count, a genre, a character, a material, a sentence to implement, and a bonus that’s entirely optional for you to use.

This is a collection of short films, developed and presented by the Sydney Story Factory, on different elements in story writing and planning. Hosted by ABC Education.

This MasterClass looks at the importance of a strong beginning in a short story and 5 ways to start.

Penning short stories is a great way to improve your writing. The form demands your idea be delivered with clarity and be structured tightly. We asked our authors for their best tips on writing short fiction to help you with your next story.

Learn more about 'short story', the background, its birth and place in the 20th Century.

Whether you want to master the elements of fiction, experiment with novel ideas, or simply have fun with storytelling, here’s everything you need on how to write a short story step by step.

This ABC podcast episode talks about what make a good short story.

Writing Excuses podcast series features published authors talking on all aspects of writing and authorship. This episode is from Season 15: Theory and Technique.

The Writing Life podcast is the podcast for anyone who writes. Every fortnight, we speak to writers and educators to help you improve your writing, from theme, structure and routine to language, character and writing specific genres.

Explore this collection of interviews with a range of different writers.

The Qwerty podcast is a podcast by, about and for writers who want to live the writing life.