Online Song Prompts

Need more song prompts, or looking for ways to create song prompts on the fly?

There are a number of online song prompts available including sites and random generators.

We’ve aggregated several into a handy post so you’ve got them at the ready!

 

 

Reddit Songwriting Prompts

A pretty big list of good prompts ranging from specific situations to generalized prompts like “write about what you see when you wake up”

 

Real Women Real Songs

Get a song prompt a week! This is a project started by Cary Cooper to encourage writing by women. It’s a youtube channel 22 women post to each week based on a song prompt.  A great way to keep your writing skills sharp.

 

Writer’s Digest Song Prompts

List created by folks on their site there are quite a few to choose from.

 

 

Plot Spline

Pretty basic, Plot Spline randomly creates a tense, timeframe and location (plot) for a song with the click of a button. Nothing to enter, just click for something new.

 

ModPlug Title Generator

This one is truly random with the titles often being nonsense, but for a few clicks worth of time, you may come up with something that’s usable. Also a “nothing to enter” tool – just click “Song Title” to generate.

 

Story Starter

Click a button and you’ll get a randomly generated sentence.  You may come across a piece of something that spurs and idea.