100 Places to Find Writing Inspiration
1. Fortune cookies2. Joanna Wiebe's emails from Copyhackers.com (you can sign up here)3. US Weekly magazine covers4. Buzzfeed headlines5. GoodReads quotes section6. Hiten Shah's Twitter feed7. Demian Farnworth's article archives8. The Help Scout blog9. The way this artist responds to her fans10. This Seattle, Washington, gas station's Twitter.11. IRL billboards12. Book title subheads13. Highly rated Amazon reviews14. Twitter bios15. Snapchat captions16. Auto dealership mailers17. Top comments on Disqus threads (sort: Best)18. Reddit headlines19. Stephen King's On Writing20. Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird21. This collection of 404 error pages22. Shakespeare sonnets23. Haikus24. Dr. Seuss's If I Ran a Zoo25. Popular Kindle highlights of the books you're reading26. Neil Patel's article structure27. Gary Vaynerchuk's guides (start with this one on Snapchat)28. Gary Vaynerchuk's social updates29. Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer (written using only the most common 1,000 English words)30. The way Under Consideration engages its community31. Anum Hussain slide decks
32. Rand Fishkin slide decks33. Headlines of the most popular articles on
today34.
35.
Campaign Monitor landing page36.
list of Hot Jar survey questions37. Bryan Harris landing pages38.
39. Apples to Apples
40. Balderdash41. Crossword puzzles42. Word Jumble43. Psalms and Proverbs
44. Vitamin Water labels
45. Stories about the lives of writers (
book is a good start)
46. Old David Ogilvy ads
47. Mad Men (as thematic inspiration)48. 30 Rock (as one-liner inspiration)49.
Style: The Art of Writing Well
50. Writing a letter to a friend51. Reading a letter that a writer wrote to a friend (
some)52. Threadless t-shirts53.
descriptions54. Denny's
55. Newspaper headlines56. Wired magazine's colophon57.
app descriptions58. Movie taglines59. Shark Tank product pitches60. Japanese game showshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAP03tnG9WE61. Mad Libs62.
63. Improv podcasts64.
65. Longform ads on podcasts
66. Bloomberg Businessweek magazine headlines and
67.
best of68. Beatles lyrics69. Top 40 lyrics70. Mitch Hedberg one liners71.
app72. Paul Jarvis
73. This list of headline
74. Austin Kleon's
75. Calvin and Hobbes
76. Warren Buffet
77.
78. The first chapter from
79. The first sentence of most magazine articles80.
81. Mallory Orberg at
82.
at SB Nation83.
, anywhere84.
articles85.
columns86. Crew blog & Twitter87. Greg Ciotti's stuff88. Hymns89.
90.
onboarding
91. Tumblr's in-app messages and 404 page
92. Infographics93. Memes94.
playlist of piano music95. or
playlist of instrumental rock 'n roll96. or
ambient soundtrack97. or coffee shop
98. Mark Twain's
99. What your friends are sharing from
100. Whatever's in your
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“When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”--- Anne Lamott