The Specificity Engine (1000 prompts for specific writing)
The Specificity Engine contains 1000+ poetry prompts, mad-libs, and writing exercises designed to force you past comfortable territory and into the weird, uncomfortable, brutally specific material that lives in your body, your memory, and your particular experience.
These aren't gentle prompts. They're psychological excavations.
Inside You'll Find:
✨ 1000 Poetry Prompts organized by theme:
Body & sensation
Family & inheritance
Shame & shadow work
Desire & sexuality
Grief & loss
Identity & performance
Mental health & trauma
Class, race & marginalization
Relationships & intimacy
The creative process itself
✨ 100 Mad-Libs for Writer's Block
Pre-structured sentences you fill in quickly to bypass your inner editor and access raw material
✨ 200+ Ad-Libs for Weird Associations
Quick-fire prompts that force unusual connections and your specific life details
What Makes These Prompts Different:
They demand radical specificity:
Not "write about anger" but "describe the exact sensation in your chest when you're being criticized and can't respond."
They're psychologically informed:
Many are based on therapeutic modalities, trauma-informed practice, and how memory and identity actually work.
They give you permission:
To write about the things you've been told are too much, too weird, too dark, too personal—because that's where your best work lives.
They force you to write like yourself:
Your weird life, your strange associations, your uncomfortable truths—not someone else's idea of what a poem should be.
Perfect For:
Poets in MFA programs or workshops
Writers experiencing creative block
Anyone tired of surface-level writing exercises
Therapists using writing therapy with clients
Workshop leaders looking for fresh, challenging material
Writers who want to stop performing and start revealing
What You Get:
📄 Professionally designed PDF (immediate download)
📄 1000+ prompts across 3 formats
📄 Organized by psychological theme
📄 Printable & annotatable
📄 Works for all experience levels (but especially powerful for intermediate-advanced writers)
Fair Warning:
If you use these prompts honestly, you will write things that make you uncomfortable. That's the point. Discomfort is data. It shows you where the real material lives.
No one has to see what you write. But you can't revise what doesn't exist.
The world doesn't need more poems about sunsets.
It needs the poems only you can write.
The Specificity Engine contains 1000+ poetry prompts, mad-libs, and writing exercises designed to force you past comfortable territory and into the weird, uncomfortable, brutally specific material that lives in your body, your memory, and your particular experience.
These aren't gentle prompts. They're psychological excavations.
Inside You'll Find:
✨ 1000 Poetry Prompts organized by theme:
Body & sensation
Family & inheritance
Shame & shadow work
Desire & sexuality
Grief & loss
Identity & performance
Mental health & trauma
Class, race & marginalization
Relationships & intimacy
The creative process itself
✨ 100 Mad-Libs for Writer's Block
Pre-structured sentences you fill in quickly to bypass your inner editor and access raw material
✨ 200+ Ad-Libs for Weird Associations
Quick-fire prompts that force unusual connections and your specific life details
What Makes These Prompts Different:
They demand radical specificity:
Not "write about anger" but "describe the exact sensation in your chest when you're being criticized and can't respond."
They're psychologically informed:
Many are based on therapeutic modalities, trauma-informed practice, and how memory and identity actually work.
They give you permission:
To write about the things you've been told are too much, too weird, too dark, too personal—because that's where your best work lives.
They force you to write like yourself:
Your weird life, your strange associations, your uncomfortable truths—not someone else's idea of what a poem should be.
Perfect For:
Poets in MFA programs or workshops
Writers experiencing creative block
Anyone tired of surface-level writing exercises
Therapists using writing therapy with clients
Workshop leaders looking for fresh, challenging material
Writers who want to stop performing and start revealing
What You Get:
📄 Professionally designed PDF (immediate download)
📄 1000+ prompts across 3 formats
📄 Organized by psychological theme
📄 Printable & annotatable
📄 Works for all experience levels (but especially powerful for intermediate-advanced writers)
Fair Warning:
If you use these prompts honestly, you will write things that make you uncomfortable. That's the point. Discomfort is data. It shows you where the real material lives.
No one has to see what you write. But you can't revise what doesn't exist.
The world doesn't need more poems about sunsets.
It needs the poems only you can write.