1001 Writing Prompts About Mother’s Day

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Mother’s Day isn’t just the time of the year to honor the women who gave birth to you. It is also the perfect day for you to scout for ideas for your next short story or novel. 

This special occasion can be incorporated into stories of any genre. With the right plot, you can use this day as an inspiration for a children’s story that teaches kids to appreciate their mothers, a psychological horror novel with a similar vibe to the movie Mother!, or a family drama that is centered on mother-children dynamics.

To help you brainstorm for ideas, check out these writing prompts about mother’s day:

• Write about inspiring mothers you know.
• It’s Mother’s Day and your child is sick in bed. Suddenly you get an urgent call from her school and you need to go there immediately.
• Write about your mother and father.
• This is a list of different topics involving science. They will give you all the subject areas to compare science to motherhood.
• Write about a memory of your Mom cooking for you.
• A single mom is taking a trip. A moose runs out in the road. She swerves to avoid it and her car turns over . She can’t get out and the car is coming down fast. You are there and have super strength. What happens next?
• A Mother takes her children on an outing out in the country to walk through the outdoors. An accident occurs.
• It’s Mother’s Day. Write about when your Mom helped you survive getting into trouble.
• A young couple has just had their first baby. It’s Mother’s Day that week.
• Write about a time your mother gave you advice.
• A mother leaves her mother to become a mother herself.
• What is the funniest thing your Mother used to do?
• As a child, how did you feel about your mother?
• A mother is watching over her sleeping child until a dark-cloaked being arrives.
• A mother is trying to comfort her child after a hard day.
• Write about your worst Mother’s Day.
• Write about a mother who works outside the home.
• Mother’s Day isn’t just one day a year. It is everyday.
• Your mother can see a future in which the world is threatened by apocalypse.
• A daughter is eating dinner with her parents. They need to give her their blessing to marry a man their parents disapprove of.
• Write about the ideals of a great Mom.
• Write about a Mother who was not your own.
• Your hero is a secret agent. She’s infiltrating a party, and she’s pretty sure there’s a camera hidden somewhere, but she can’t find it.
• Write from the point of view of a mother giving birth.
• Write about your Mom as a superhero.
• Write about what will happen when your mother isn’t feeling well.
• Write about a mother and child reunion.
• Your mother looked you in the eyes after discovering something.
• Write about a Mother and Child reunion after disaster.
• Tell us about your first Mother’s Day and/or first Mother’s Day without your Mom.
• Write about your favorite childhood memory of her.
• If you see the mother bear eyeing her cub about to fall, would you save the baby bear or not? Why or why not?
• How have you helped your mother?
• Write about someone who forgets that Mother’s Day is approaching, and isn’t happy after they remember.
• A sick mother apologizes to her son.
• Write about how your mother has sacrificed for you, or the things she has done that you never noticed.
• Write about a Mother’s last words to her son before he died in Vietnam.
• Write about your mother volunteering at your school.
• Your mother _____________.
• Write about a Mother who learns to let go of her child.
• A mother has five minutes to live. What does she tell her son?
• A mother watches her son fall from his chair.
• Write about a memory with your mom like watching the sunset or hearing her read a story.
• Write about an adventure where Mom was lost and her child works to find and rescue her.
• Write about somebody else’s Mother who made an impres
• Write a poem about this week!
• Write about a mother and daughter relationship.
• Write about a child who is soon to lose her mother.
• What did you do to recognize your mother?
• How can an astronaut mom communicate with her child?
• Write about your favorite thing about your Mom.
• Write about the first time you realized that you were mom material.
• Your town gets flooded and your mother is trapped on the roof.
• A mother and her child are adrift at sea.
• Write about a couple days typical of a mother’s day.
• Imagine you woke up as a newborn baby. Your only voice is your thoughts and sounds and your only way to get around your crib.
• A group of hikers in the mountains discover the body of a man, frozen in the harsh terrain. One member of the hiking party is convinced it is one of their own that they have previously lost, that somehow, despite the awful injuries, has inspired hope. Despite warnings to not tell anyone, that more likely this is someone else’s body, the woman shows up lacking her rings and her purse for a second body to be buried simply on her word.
• When the Mississippi flooded.
• An astronaut lands on Mars and sees a brand new life form. She finds out that everything is green and round. She catches one of the creatures.
• Write a scene about your first car, and each character has a backstory about why they got a car at such a young age or why they had car trouble.
• The character has committed the worst crime of all, falling in love with his mother.
• Letters from your Mom.
• What are your feelings about the relationship you have with your mom?
• Write from the point of view of a baby abandoned at a church.
• You give your brother/sister an affectionate hug and it transforms them. In this process, you discover they are either an elf, or a fairy, or a dwarf, the results are unpredictable. However, you learn that the transformation will only be temporary.
• Write a poem or a journal entry about your mother.
• Do you have your favorite type of food that you want to say thanks to your mother?
• A young woman and her mother live in a rough part of town together. What makes them get up every day and survive?
• Write a Mother’s Day love poem.
• Write about your Mom tucking you into bed.
• Details are vague but your father said you should not be mad at your mother for what she did.
• Write about the first time you met your mom.
• Your Mother is a King Cobra, but you still love her anyway.
• You are stuck in lockup and your mother is accused of a crime she didn’t commit.
• Halloween is coming up! Write about your most memorable experience with your Mom.
• A young child spends an entire day with her grandfather
• Little Sally learned a valuable lesson over breakfast.
• Write about a time you helped your mother.
• The lady at the end of the library.
• The rest of his people are retreating, were you and your mother brave enough to stay?
• A single woman decided to raise her child by herself.
• Write about your relationship with your Mom.
• Write about a mother that forgets her child.
• Write about a child who makes their Mom proud.
• You are in the hospital. Your mother walks in. Write about what happens next.
• Write about a mother letting go of a child.
• She steps outside and closes a steel door…
• Write a dialogue about Mother’s Day between a mother and child.
• Your Mother has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer.
• Mom tells Dad she wants a divorce and kicks him out.
• Have you controlled an important time of summer or something bad?
• Write about a time your mother hurt you.
• Discuss and describe to your readers your feelings on how mothers and sons deal with each other in your world.
• Mother Earth has been the victim of countless crimes since the dawn of time.
• Write about your mother’s tenacity.
• A mother talks to her child about being adopted.
• Write about what you want to make for your mother this coming Mother’s Day.
• Write about a Mother and Son with super powers.
• A group of friends are traveling the Oregon Trail in search of a better life.
• Write about a time you disappointed your mother.
• Write about a time you were proud of being your mom’s child.
• If a stranger speaks to your mother, she would respond politely.
• Write about your least favorite memory of your Mom.
• A mother’s ways of showing her love differ between different cultures.
• Write the story of a mother who leaves her family for five minutes and when she comes back everything is completely different. Not only is everyone out of her house, but they also have new jobs. How does she react? What is the entire country like after she returns?
• Your mother is trapped underwater. She needs you to get her. Listen, she can’t hold on much more!
• Write about a child you adopted.
• Write your own nursery rhymes.
• The day is Mother’s Day, and everyone is bewildered at a specific woman who does not have a mother. Describe the new mother to them.
• Write about Mother Earth, ecology and Mother’s Day.
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• Those are all the prompts for Mother’s Day weekend. Enjoy and have fun writing.
• Write about your ideal mother.
• A mother is left a fortune after a rich uncle dies. She gives it all to her children…
• Describe how your mother met your father/her husband.
• Have fun with this! Comment with your favorite prompts, or share your story if you’ve written one of your own.
• Write a poem about what will help kids with their mother’s saying.
• Write about a special Mother’s Day or time you spent with your mother.
• “Sorry” is a good thing for mothers to say.
• Write about a family member from the past.
• Write about a tattoo mom got or would get.
• How has your relationship with your mother changed as you’ve grown older?
• Write about a time you helped your Mama.
• Write about your mother teaching you about life.
• What is your favorite meal cooked by your mother?
• Write about a time your mother refused to help you.
• The weather department forgot to predict it and no one expected any preparations.
• Write about a bad Mother’s Day.
• Write about a mother you didn’t like.
• Write about the most important Mother’s Day present that you received. Write about a mother that was not very nice to her child and what the child did about it.
• Write about a Mother’s love.
• Mothers shouldn’t cry – write about a time when you went against this rule.
• Jerry isn’t gay. He’s getting kissed by the babysitter.
• Write about a child stealing something for his mother.
• Describe a mother who cooks science.
• Write about a Mother with a dark side.
• The day before Mother’s day your mother starts bleeding and something bad is wrong with the baby.
• Write about your least favorite memory of your mother.
• Write about how a mother reflects her children’s behavior.
• A mother returns home to her city after a tragic tsunami has struck.
• Write a poem about your Mother or someone you know who is your Mother.
• Write about a relative you only see on Mother’s Day.
• A child is visiting its grandmother’s grave for the first time.
• Write about your toughest problem but getting your Mom advice makes it better.
• Write about something that happened when you were young involving your Mom and Dad.
• Mothers advice or a piece of advice from a friend to my mother.
• Describe your mother’s personality as an animal.
• Write about a special holiday that involves your Mom.
• A woman has everything going for her and everything is going her way. One day, she wakes up and her daughter is gone. She is a single mother.
• Downsizing is a common theme in modern society. Why does this keep happening?
• Write about racism and picking favorites.
• Write about a gift your mother gave you.
• Write about a time your mother was not proud of you.
• Write about a precious moment or experience you had with your Mom.
• Write about a ghost wanting to make amends with her mother.
• Write about your feelings about your Mom.
• Write about a time you helped your mother.
• Write about a time your mother taught you a lesson.
• Write about the moment you found out your father was an alien.
• You’re 2 days old and your mother is standing over the crib trying to figure out what she’s going to name you. What do you say to her?
• Write about your mother cooking.
• Write about a mother who used to read bedtime stories.
• Write about the bond between your mother and yourself.
• Write about your favorite type of Mother’s day gift.
• She is here all the time, no matter what.
• Bluebeard’s sister came to the castle to tell her sister-in-law how much she loved and admired her, but her husband liked to murder her sisters-in-law to prevent them from being replacements for his dead wife.
• Write about a child who is getting ready to take the Children’s Sacrament.
• At first he thinks it’s a toy.
• Write about how your mother has helped you live out your dreams.
• Write about the first time you had to go to your mother for advice on something.
• Write about how much Mom loves and adores you.
• Write about a mother’s love.
• Write about Mother’s Day from the viewpoint of a child.
• Write about the first Mother’s Day you remember.
• Write about your favorite memory of your Mom.
• When the people came together for the annual Mother’s Day lunch and entertainment, something unexpected happened.
• Write about the most horrible thing you can imagine doing to your mother.
• Write about a time your mother didn’t want to help you.
• Write about Mother’s Day blues.
• A mother tells her child a bedtime story.
• Write about a mother who was not there for her child as a kid.
• You and your Mom put together a dinner party as an experiment to determine which of you is an “improviser”.
• Your mother acts strangely at dinner that night.
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• Write about your relationship with your mother.
• Write about the last Mother’s Day you had with your mother.
• Write about a time you disappointed your mother.
• Write about your favorite snack your mother made.
• Write about a trip you took with your mother.
• Write about the moment your mom gave birth to you.
• A mother is with her suffering child when an angel appears.
• Write a letter thanking your Mom for the love and support she’s provided you with.
• Let me know how it goes and if you are having fun Mother’s Day activities with your children.
• Write about a child who did a bad thing but gets to go on a special adventure with his or her Mom.
• What is your idea of comfort food?
• Your friend tells you about his bad marriage with his wife. Subsequently his wife finds out about the conversations.
• Write about what causes family members to be permanently estranged from each other.
• Write about a birthday celebration your Mom threw for you.
• Write about a difficult time a parent had to deal with.
• Write about a memory of a day with your mother, and another day where you purposely refused to have a memory made with her.
• If you could, what would you give your mother for Mother’s Day?
• Write about your mother telling you that there was no Santa Claus.
• Write about a time your mother loved you.
• A mother watches her child from the sky.
• Mom meets a person who can help her solve her work-related problem.
• Because of ethnic cleansing, the mother and daughter can’t go back to their house.
• Write about a mother you do not like, but you shouldn’t feel this way.
• A mother explains to her daughter for the first time why she must go.
• Write about a road trip with your mother.
• Write a poem or essay about a cold and distant mother.
• Do you think a woman should stay home and take care of the kids instead of working?
• Write about a mother who was really your father in disguise.
• Something bad/scary happens to a child.  Something happens to trigger their powers.
• Women / Moms Do make the world better / good to be in / more beautiful.
• Paper airplanes usually symbolize the innocence of childhood. Write about a mother who becomes a child.
• I decided to allow these visuals in a story, and my entry for the flash fiction contest “Mother’s Day” , won third place.
• Write about a time your mother was wrong.
• Write about the first time your mother left you.
• Your mother has gone missing.
• Write about a time your Mom told you a secret.
• What if Mother Nature were a mom instead of a daddy?
• Write about the worst gift your mother ever gave you.
• Mothers have a special way to communicate with their kids. Write about it.
• Write about a time your mother made you mad.
• She’s not in Seattle, she’s with her son who needs her more. The storm has turned their cabin into a cage.
• Your mother is the beekeeper.
• Write about a time your mother annoyed you.
• A mother reads her son a book.
• Write about a Mom who completely disappointed you.
• Write about the time you realized your mother was right all along.
• A Good Samaritan tells a mother to leave her one child alone and to pick up the child who is crying.
• Write about your Mom on Mother’s Day.
• The narrator is a teenage boy and his mother is a ghost.
• Mom is surprised when her sons hit it big in the business without her help.
• Your mother dies, and a couple of months later you open her desk drawer to find an unexpected message from her.
• The mother tells their child monsters exist. What happens next?
• A mother’s love for her children is often all a child has left after losing everything else.
• Write about a memorable Mother’s Day.
• Write about a time you had to help your mother.
• Write about a mother who, for reasons of her own, abandoned her family.
• Choose any mother in history and write about her.
• Imagining Yourself in Describe Your Mom
• A mother always has her arms open.
• Write about being a child at Mother’s Day Breakfast.
• Write about listening to your mother.
• Write about a characteristic you inherited from your mother, and one that you decidedly did not.
• Invite your Mom to write about her most memorable Mother’s Day.
• Write about your WORST experience with your mother.
• An older woman is taking a walk through town. She steps on a butterfly and a single tear rolls out her eye.
• Write about a time your mom saved you.
• Write about a boy with autism who gets famous for his artwork.
• Write about the perfect mother.
• List five things you know your Mom can do.
• Write about your mother’s favorite childhood memories.
• Write about the life of a mother who gave up her child for adoption.
• Write about your favorite watch.
• Write about a little league game where the coach’s mother comes to watch.
• Write about a day with and without your mother.
• Write about your first memory of your mother.
• Write about a time your mother made you gasp.
• Write about the biggest mistake your mother ever made.
• A modern version of Snow White where the Queen casts a spell to take away good looks and bring them to her daughter.
• Write about an astronaut mother from space.
• She shouldn’t have done that!
• Have your character commit a random act of kindness on Mothers day.
• Write about how your mom helped you beat the bully.
• Mother and daughter talk about what she wants to do for Mother’s Day.
• Think about your favorite things about having a mother and write about them.
• A mother’s husband moves in with his new lover less than six months after the death of the wife.
• Write about the clothes your mom used to wear.
• Mama has been trying to get up off the couch for hours and just can’t seem to make it.
• Write about your own feelings about the wonderful women in your life.
• A mother and her child await sentencing after throwing things at the president’s motorcade.
• Write about a hero mother.
• Tell us about a heart-warming Mother’s Day gift your mother gave you.
• Their Mother was dying.
• A hero discovers a mother and her child are frozen in his ice.
• Write about a memory of Mom’s cooking.
• Write about maternal instinct.
• Write about an item you’d like to give to your mother.
• An older woman who had been a heroine when she was younger falls into obscurity. Her children don’t believe in her anymore.
• Write about a time your mother hurt you.
• Write a sonnet to your mother.
• A mother carves a doll for her daughter.
• A mother and her child work together to cross the stream, struggling to move a suitcase full of things behind them, pushing and shoving against the current of the river.
• Someone really special dies.
• A family in the future must compete on a game show to prove they are worthy to live.
• Your mother’s top five secret life-hacks.
• How to Write a Mother’s Day Essay/Speech
• Write about a time your mother did something you really appreciated.
• Write about your mother’s day present from you.
• Write about a family gathering.
• Mice scamper in unusual intervals of time.
• Based upon the rite of the tithe,
• A mother comes across her grown child in the forest, near a creek.
• Write about the best thing you ever gave your Mom.
• A mother’s love for her children can smooth out the hardest lives. Write about it.
• Write about a Mom in a superheroine or villainess role.
• Think of a memory when Mom forgot that you’ve grown up, because she still does something for you. It could be something as simple as handling your laundry to making you a promise that you dislike. You used to have a common interest with her before the age you outgrown it—everything, except the quality time together. She had a nice or not so nice day with you, but you were still glad to be by her side. What kind of feeling do you share? Proud, Happened, Grateful, Affectionate, Guilty, Pride, Grudges, Depressed?
• To celebrate Mother’s Day, you go on a hike with your child.  Things do not go as planned.
• Write about your favorite Mother’s Day gift.
• Write about a memory you will share with all of your children.
• After having her baby, a mom grieves for her lost youth.
• Write about your Mom taking you to the carnival when you were a kid. What happened?
• Write  a poem about your mommy or a memory you have with her.
• Write about when your mother helped someone else.
• Write about getting to know your mother-in-law for the first time.
• Write a letter to your mother that could be posted at her memorial service.
• A mom plays Scrabble with her son and daughter. It’s a tie game and lasts for hours.
• Write about being a mother.
• Write about the worst Mother’s Day you ever had.
• Write about a Mother’s day you spent with your planet.
• Imagine a mother who must inform her son he didn’t win that competition.
• Write about your favorite thing your Mom ever gave you or made for you.
• Write your mother an apology letter for something you did to hurt her feelings.
• She is called the cook. She nurtures the family. She is the keeper of tradition. The household runs like a well-greased machine. Harvesting, preserving, preserving. In the summer, the garden explodes into color. There is The Sunday Butchering that lasts for days. Everything blooms and bears fruits. There is crunching of apples and canning and layering of food, anything can grow. Listen to the meat sizzling, crackling in a hot pan, bubbling in a pot. All the ingredients smelled like a fine meal. The meals. The meals that a mother would cook, nourishing her family, providing, never knowing how crucial it was for both body and soul to produce such a divine meal like hers. She has saved the day. This meal has been made and will be devoured.
• A child in a locked room is calling for his mother.
• Write about Mom helping out a neighbor.
• Write about a time your mother made you laugh.
• The characters from your story are going to a knitting festival at a church.
• A young child catches a ladybug and holds it in a pair of tweezers.
• The two-can-touch rule.
• Write a behavior portrait of your mother, or someone else’s mother.
• Write about mothers that work outside of the home.
• About a mom and her child driving down the road enjoying life.
• A woman is told that her child has been captured by the Taliban.
• Everyone has a favorite mother. This is yours.
• Write about the craziest thing she has ever made you eat.
• Write about your mother teaching you how to do something.
• The day was a mother’s favorite day of the year. Write about the day so many people think of fondly.
• Write about the best day of your life with your mother.
• Write about a secretive mother.
• Write about a mother who lived during the Great Depression.
• Write about Mother’s Day from the point of view of a child.  Write about a child whose mother has died.
• Write about someone’s memory of their mother.
• A mother and her children are walking on an isolated country road.
• Write your own, happy Mother’s Day speech.
• Ever lost your Mother? Write about it.
• Write about your mother and your first heartbreak.
• It could be for anything, anything at all.
• Write about your relationship with your own mother.
• Write about your Mother’s beliefs on fairy tales, myths, etc.
• Write about a mother that you have never met.
• A mother is quietly reading in her favorite chair. Her child leaves to go brush their teeth. Those few minutes instantly change her opinion of the day.
• Copy and paste one of your previous blog posts from Mother’s Day, change some of the words around and see what new ideas you come up with.
• A woman and her mother were twelve years old at the same time.
• Mothers have to raise children and work or take care of kids all day, as well.
• Write about a moment where you didn’t agree with your mom, but learned something valuable from it.
• Write about Mom telling Dad what to do.
• The ocean and beach are a mother’s refuge.
• Special circumstances allow a mother to sit on the fence – which side does she join?
• How would her personality be different than it is right now?
• There is a government program that will take care of your Mom’s every need when she gets older.
• A homeless man walks into a church charity so they can give him food. Little did the homeless man know that a certain mother was the head of the charity.
• The plants are growing faster and faster. While you are in the garden tending to the plants they are nearly trampling you. The trees are losing their leaves due to the growth of the plants. It’s nearly like a jungle now.
• Write about where you and your Mom shopped.
• Write about your mother-in-law.
• A little girl gets a doll for Christmas and is so excited to play with it. The doll comes to life and wants to kill the little girl.
• What would you plant if mother nature gave you a day to pick any plant for the yard.
• Write about wanting more than what your mother gave you.
• Your mother has a fatal illness.
• Write about an uncommon way your Mother has helped you.
• A mother and her stick-tied child were walking in an alleyway through the middle of the bustling city when they heard the sirens of the fire engines.
• A young engineering student pays more attention to his mother than his homework.
• A mother who loses her child.
• Mom wakes up and her head is on fire. Why? Write about it.
• Today it is your Mother’s funeral and it has changed your life forever.
• Think about a tradition/traditions you have for Mother’s Day with your Mom.
• Flash Fiction
• Your father is a superhero. You’ve always wanted to show your mother all of his cool stuff. Today is that day. Almost all of his gear is gone but she brings a special present home from work. What did she bring home?
• You and your brothers have been hungry for a few days.
• A mother writes her son, who is now in Vietnam.
• Write about a dream Mother’s Day.
• On this special day, a mother gives birth to three babies. The babies are identical triplets.
• Write about a mother that has a heart of gold.
• A mother is the best teacher a child will ever have.
• Did you know your mother can read people’s minds?
• Write about what kind of mother you’d like to be.
• Write about meeting your mother for the first time.
• What is a story you would tell your children about your mother?
• A mother and her child are being chased by the predators.
• Write about your fears when you are a mother.
• A mother has been selected to fight a battle to save the world.
• What’s your favorite Mother’s Day memory?
• Write about someone thanking their mother.
• Two mothers fight to the death over their children.
• Write about your favorite item your mother owned when you were a child.
• Write about Mother Teresa.
• Write about a mother who shares her story with you.
• Write about something your mother did for you that changed your life.
• A Mother who will betray you at the worst possible time.
• Mom is presented with the opportunity to turn back time and choose whether to keep the child she went into labor with, or turn back time and choose a better version of herself.
• Write about your fun and happy memories with your mother.
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• The day before Mother’s Day, the baby Jesus goes missing.
• Have you ever lost a mother?
• A mother tries to keep her children safe while her husband is out and about on the town
• Write about a mom who puts her child in an unusual situation.
• Write about someone else’s mother.
• You are driving your mother home after dinner when you get into a pretty bad accident.
• Write about your deepest regret concerning your mother.
• The war has ended and the army enlists 5 mothers with their newborn babies. Using only what they can carry, the mother’s set off to navigate around all of the zombies, and follow their general’s direction, to a safe location.
• When a mother creates with purpose, things stand still.
• A mother is in labor. She’s pushing and pushing.
• Describe what motherhood means to you.
• Have a mother tell her child about what she thinks about when the daughter leaves the house.
• Write about your mother’s “Little Black Book”, where she keeps her tips and tricks about raising kids.
• Mom wants to take up knitting.
• Write about your Mom and the zoo.
• Write about what you would do if your mother were not here.
• Seeing how my mother dealt with her demons left me with an unresolved psychic wound that did not heal until five years into my mother’s death t…
• Write about a time that your mother was tough on you.
• A mother is about to present her child for baptism when she has a change of heart.
• A popular trend of giving mother-child bracelets which have constant contact information to match.
• What did you think of the prompts? What would you add? What topics would you like to see in the future?
• A mother has to watch as her two young daughters die in vain reaching her outstretched hand.
• Mama loves her baby and her baby loves her too.
• Write about the best advice you ever got from your Mom.
• A dream about your mother.
• Write about a Mother in the Bible whose story you don’t know.
• Write about your favorite Mother’s Day memory.
• A mother makes herself throw up, she did it to herself after she ate a whole container of ice cream.
• A young Mother must convince her Father, who is blind, that her baby is a pig and the house is covered by furniture.
• Repeat a phrase until you get bored of it.
• Write about a time your mother didn’t help you.
• A mother is doing some household chores when her child comes into the room upset.
• Write about one of the dreams your mother has for you.
• What do you remember about Mother’s Day from when you were growing up?
• A swimmer has begun to drown in Florida’s murky and chaotic water. What does a 20-year old woman do?
• The mother is flying her child to somewhere safe amid the destruction of their hometown.
• Mom is out walking her dog wearing her new pair of expensive white boots. She slips on a banana peel, falls, and cracks her head open on the sidewalk. She dies immediately with her dog name Brunhille licking her face. Write about this time.
• Mom and child move into the woods away from society and modern technology.
• The persona of the narrator reminisces about the time they celebrated Mother’s Day.
• Socialite father, super hero mother, alien stepfather.
• A mother writes you a letter before she dies. Go with that, and how your character reacts.
• About a man who is separated from his mother and sells everything he has in order to get her immigrant visa. He berates himself and mourns the waste before finally telling himself it was worth it. As she steps off the boat, he cannot even recognize her.
• How much does your mother love you?
• Mary and Joseph being surprised by a very powerful warning from God.
• A mother sings a lullaby to her children, but what she doesn’t realize is that her child’s future depends on that lullaby.
• Her skin turns blue as the stems grow.
• Write about a time your mother has hurt you.
• Write about a gift your mother has given you.
• A mother rests in the shade of a tree on a sunny day. When her baby starts screaming, she glances about, at a loss as to what to do. What helps her calm her baby?
• Write about the bonds that hold families together.
• A teenage daughter yells at her Mom for coming to her school when she’s caught cheating.
• For Mother’s Day, write about someone who is the opposite of a good mother.
• Write about a mother and her child as they take in the magic of a new baby.
• Write about the “sisterly bond” between your Mom and one of your sisters.
• Mom and child are trapped under a boat while the tornado rips across the plain and tears houses and buildings apart.
• Write about something you did that your mother was proud of.
• School-aged children watch their mother die after an explosion of a space station.
• Write about your mother on a date.
• Write about your mother and her pets.
• Have your characters bury a box. The mother who buries it dies. The daughter who receives the box, makes up stories about what’s inside the box, hoping it’s valuable enough to find a way to get it out of the ground.
• Write about how your mother’s voice sounds.
• Write about the terrible fight that you once had with your Mom.
• You boil spaghetti for dinner.
• A boy spills a cup of coffee in his lap. When his mother asks him about it he says, “I did it!”
• Write about a time your mother said, “No”.
• Write up the oddest job your Mom ever took to keep a roof over your head.
• Write about a time you helped your mother.
• Five things a child can do to help their mother.
• Mothers are cut from diamonds and your heart is like hers.
• Write about a mother-in-law.
• Were you a good boy today? How about your mother?
• A loving poem to your mother.
• A Mother has been captured.
• Write about a sibling rivalry.
• Write about getting in trouble for something that your Mom did.
• Tell a story about a May-December romance.
• Write about a letter you’ll never send, addressed to your Mother.
• Write a poem – It can be a list poem or a dramatic poem.
• A teenager whose parents divorced at a young age writes a song for Mother’s Day to try and make it up to her Mom.
• What is the bravest thing your mother has ever done?
• A lonely mother loses her head.
• Write about going on a vacation with your mother.
• Write about a Mom who carried her child’s ashes in an urn on Mother’s Day.
• A mother sends her child off to school excited to give the  teacher the chocolate chip cookies she made that morning.
• A young mom has a chance encounter several years after moving away.
• If you could choose one superpower to get for Mother’s Day, what would you choose?
• Your mother is a director for the CIA in charge of an important mission.
• Write a letter to your mother from your future self.
• There’s a terrorist attack at the beach. Two young women frantically try to save their mothers.
• She has thought of every possible outcome. Everyone’s reactions. The children, the reactions, the possible outcomes.
• Practice your skills this Mother’s Day and join us for Days of Shout!
• Write about burying your mother.
• Write about your relationship with your Mom now that you’re an adult.
• A mother got a veterinarian to come put down her dog. The dog saved the mother from death.
• What have you learned from your Mom?
• Write about being proud of your Mother.
• For this Mother’s Day find five yellow lilies.
• A mom is playing cards with her kids when Bunnyman comes in through the window.
• Tell the story of Oedipus to a mother and her son.
• Write about what your mother is thinking while you’re distanced from her.
• A mother and her son attend the same college, but Mom is very strict.
• Two people trapped in a car submerged in water worry about their mother.
• Write about a child who kills their mother.
• Describe a Mother who is your favorite character in a movie, TV show or book.
• Write a mother’s day letter.
• A mother mermaid and her daughter grant wishes.
• Imagine a mother with tiger blood.
• Write about a time your mother hurt you.
• Write about a mother talking tough to her young son.
• Write about a day you spent with your Mom.
• Write about a trip your family took when you were a child, and the one thing you regret not understanding.
• Write about a family gathering your family had when you were a child.
• A mother asks her daughter to fetch the white horses out of the storm. The daughter acquiesces and returns with five white horses as quickly as
• Write about your first job.
• Write about a time your mother disappointed you.
• Write a love poem for your Mom.
• Father’s and Mother’s day
• Your mother has a secret that has been kept from you for most of your life.
• On Mother’s Day, your Mom gives you the paper bag she has saved for over ten years. What is inside?
• Thanks to Scott Nicholson for sharing 8 Mother’s Day Ideas for Teachers with me. If you’re a teacher, this is a wonderful list to consider for Mother’s Day.
• A mother picks up her child from daycare and scares him with an encounter on the way home.
• Write about the person you fear the most.
• Write about a mom who’s recovering from personal tragedy.
• Write about your first kiss.
• Write about the perfect mother.
• Write about a time you wanted a mother.
• A boy is walking through the woods when he finds a tiny tree. The tree starts to cry out about being hungry. The boy walks off pretending to know what to do about the tree crying.
• Write about a time your mother has disappointed you.
• Mother’s day is a good time to remember the Earth Mother.
• Dedicate a Haiku to Mother.
• Write about a time your mother hurt you.
• A young boy goes into his Mom’s room to tell her, “The mailman is here. He says you have to pay for my Cadillacs.”
• Write about a Mother’s Day that ended badly.
• Write a story about how you helped your Mom.
• Write about a mother and her newborn baby.
• Write about how a mother can change a person’s life.
• As a child, we all loved the story A Rabbit’s Tale. Write about a mother and her child throwing a welcoming party for a miniature brained protagonist that sprouts from a vat of goo.
• In an otherwise childless world, a woman gives birth to a child who fluoresces, and through some misfortune, becomes a figure of myth and legend.
• A mother moves her family out west looking for Gold during the California gold rush. The boat takes them to Mexico, where they are captured by thieves. Her husband is not as lucky as she, dying the night after they arrived. When she is no longer useful, two thieves sell her to a brothel. Her child is killed in front of her as a warning to her if she tries to escape. Pieces of his neckline are sold. She does not know what the pieces are until a woman shows them to her months later. How does she cope with this loss? Does she work everyday until the time she’s too old or can she get out to look for her son? In the meantime, is her son alive? Did he escape? Is California or Mexico suited for him? What happens when she has a stroke? Do you think she’ll be killed? Does she want to get revenge? Write about a character overcoming a trauma.
• Write about your least favorite memory.
• Write about a time your Mom disappointed you.
• Write about the funniest thing your mother has ever done to you.
• It’s time to bring in the harvest when a freak storm comes.
• Mother tries to cook dinner while the kids do homework.
• Write about a time your mother listened to you.
• Write about a sibling who does not care for his or her mother.
• Your mother was not afraid to speak her mind.
• Write a poem about your mother.
• A mother pierces the hole into the earlobes of her son.
• Write about a time for or about your Mom.
• What did you cook for your Mom today?
• Write about a mother returning a favor.
• Would I keep in touch with their children after high school?
• Your mother makes you pancakes and then your dog breaks in and eats them.
• What is something a Mom never forgets?
• Write about the chores you hated to do around the house and what your Mom would insist you do.
• You and your mother are hiding in the basement when she tells a story about her life.
• Write about a time your mother consoled you.
• Write about your Mom and dad.
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• Write about a mother helping her child.
• Write about Mother’s Day through the eyes of a character in your story. Entire novel, no less than fifty pages long,
• Write a poem about your mother from the point of view of your child.
• Write about the favorite thing your mother taught you to make or do.
• Write about your favorite memory of your mother when you were a child.
• Write about a Mom who doesn’t know who her child is.
• Write about how your mother treats you.
• Write about your children or grandchildren.
• Write about a time your mother was disappointed in you.
• Your mother is your arch enemy and you are the only one who knows it.
• A mother bathes her baby while she is tired. She is half done when the earthquake hits.
• Describe in detail five qualities of your mother.
• The story of your Mother fighting monsters.
• Write about the things your mother taught you.
• Online Mom remembers . . .
• Write about something a mother in your current story did for or to another character.
• Write about a mother who doesn’t have her daughter’s best interest at heart.
• Brainstorm about your Mom. Others share their ideas.
• Read for more Mom activities, ideas.
• Write from your Mothers perspective on what Father’s Day is like.
• 4 sisters all have birthdays based on a theme…some kind of flower.
• Write about your mother’s superstitions.
• What is/was your mother’s dream?
• Write about a memory of a time your mother disciplined you.
• Write about being a Mom.
• Write about a time your Mother went through a rough time and you felt helpless.
• Write about the perfect Mother’s Day.
• Write about a special moment you felt like your mother was there with you.
• A young boy and his mother are traveling.
• Write about a day that your mother did not want you to see her cry.
• How would your mom react if you joined a cult?
• Write about a time that you felt sorry for your mother.
• Write about a time your mother or wife was hurt.
• Write about the best meal you ever had with your Mom.
• Why do you think Moms do any of the things they do?
• Write about a Mother’s Day.
• Write about a time you have made a sacrifice for your mother.
• A mother of many speaks as her children listen.
• A mother is checking her dead son for signs of life.
• Write about a character in an alternative universe where she was a rock star.
• Write about a Mother helping her child.
• Write a poem about mothers.
• A letter from a mother to her daughter who has joined the military.
• Write about a dad that would never take ‘No’ for an answer.
• Write a story about a mother and her newborn baby during Hurricane Katrina.
• What would you do for your child?
• A mother is baking a cake for her daughter’s 18th birthday. The daughter is blind. What would happen?
• Write about a selfish Mother.
• Write about something your mother has forgiven you for.
• Mothers day means ‘Comfort and Joy’
• Write about the child becoming a parent in the future, and NOT liking it at first.
• Mother needs your help with her monthly bill paying.
• Write a story about your mother introducing you to what will become your new obsession.
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• Write about a mother who lives in a magical world.
• Write about a mother who didn’t like you too much.
• Your brother or sister left home for the first time without you. How did it feel?
• A young woman drives alone on the freeway with her baby in the backseat. She is wondering if she should turn around and drive him back home because she is exhausted.
• Write about a time your mother disagreed with you.
• Write about a Mom with an unusual hobby.
• A question for you is how are you going to show gratitude toward your mother on Mother’s Day this year? Think about this today. Limit one-hundred fifty words sum of the three writing prompt topics above. Leave a comment below in parenthesis next to each writing prompt you complete, one per subject and time. Have fun! One entry per person.
• Write about a time your mother hurt you.
• After searching for a particular plant for medicinal purposes, a mother and son separated and never to see each other again.
• A hen lays an egg. You show it to your mother.
• Write about a Mom being worried about her child.
• Write about your mother after a zombie apocalypse.
• Write about Mother’s Day or a mother.
• Your Mother has gone to the store and is still not back.
• An abandoned mother and child board a truck headed to the slaughter house.
• A woman was working in her garden when she found a baby.
• A mother and daughter find themselves surrounded.
• Write about how you miss your mother.
• Explain why you wear a gold ring everyday.
• Describe how your mother felt when you first brought your boyfriend or girlfriend to the family get together.
• Write about a moment in time that changed your life forever.
• Write about your strongest childhood memory of your mother.
• A mother asks her son for help when her wheelchair breaks down. She has a point to prove.
• This moment is life was best encapsulated by your mother.
• Write about yourself on Mother’s Day.
• Gear up for the end of the world with your mother.
• Write about what you’ll wear to the Mother’s Day brunch.
• You went to your mother’s work today. Write about it and what you learned about her.
• The family is asleep when they hear footsteps approaching the house. When they look out the window, they find that it is Mom who has come home.
• Write about your one regret about your relationship with your mother.
• A husband and wife come home after a long day, to find they’ve been robbed. The husband looks in the wallet and sees the bully club fraud, whilst the T-Card and Visa are missing. The husband knows his wife is responsible. She finds him upstairs asleep on the bed when she goes up to check on him. After a little while he stops snoring and starts snorting like a pig. How is the wife going to convince him that he actually ate the chocolate truffles.
• Write about a mother you admire or someone you admire.
• BONUS PROMPT ADDED 6/5/15
• Write a letter to your Mom asking her for advice on your current problem.
• A mother takes a nostalgic trip through time to her childhood home.
• The mother of a child you know is abusive.
• Write about a single subject that interests you for 20 minutes using your smartphone and a stopwatch.
• Write about your Mom’s first pet.
• Write about the worst Mother’s Day gift you ever got.
• You are invited to a Mother’s Day tea party. What’s on the menu?
• Write about your most treasured gift a family member gave you.
• How do you know which abilities are normal and which abilities are special?
• How does a child deal with being abandoned by his parents?
• What is Mom like on Mondays?
• Write about losing your mother.
• A man’s mother is annoyed by his selfish attitude. An author, whose mother died last year, takes a tour of the town where she lived while she was alive.
• Write about a good friend of yours.
• On Mother’s Day a woman writes a letter to her mother.
• Write about a time your mother didn’t help you.
• Write about your last, worst Mother’s Day, and why it’s so bad.
• Write about a mother who has lost her child.
• She knocked on the door of a moment in your recent past, an awkward teenage party at a friend’s house that, somehow, you don’t want to remember all that well.
• Write about a time your mother was there for you.
• We all know the story of the lady who lived in a shoe.
• Our mom was probably the most loving, caring person we have ever known.
• Write about your own mother in nature.
• The mother of a two-year-old is trying to get the baby to love science.
• There is a woman who is concerned about a mother and daughter being evacuated from their situation. They are staying with their father in an RV, and the woman has come to rescue them. Do you think Dad was cruel to have these two live with him?
• You are giving a eulogy. You have 30 seconds to give it.
• Write a story about the opposing forces from the Wizard of Oz on Mother’s Day.
• The young mother has gone through many hardships, but she chooses not to tell her son her story.
• You’ve been told that your 16 year old child got into a fight at school and is in trouble.
• The chasm kept getting larger and larger until it was as large as a canyon.
• A mother watches as her children prepare for war and cry for their fate, then laughs as they mock her while they go to fight the giants.
• A mother is ordering her son to sit down. And he does. Then rises. Again she demands he sit and he does. Then rises, again. She smacks him. He doesn’t sit down. Repeat.
• A woman’s mother wrote this idea down because she wanted to make her own altarpiece, and called it “Nostra Domina Nostra Dolorosa.”
• Writing about a pet or the house-hold pet.
• What is the world like when children don’t exist?
• A mother waits in the wings for her partner to slow dance with the judge’s wife.
• Write about setting Mother’s Day dinner.
• What is your perfect Mother’s Day?
• Write about the best gift you have ever received from your mother.
• Make a list of 10 things about your Mom.
• A young man sleeps well into his birthday.
• What if a shark were in your room or in your cupboard?
• Write about when your mother let you down.
• Moms should always get the good stuff.
• Like mother, like son.
• A fight is breaking out between boys, when a woman jumps between them and explains how to resolve the issue.
• Write about a mother putting on her lipstick and what she says to her son. At the end of the conversation the son tries on a hat and leaves. The mother laughs and cries as she admires her son.
• Jenna is getting married in a week, when her mom dies she finds out she has to plan the funeral.
• If there were a Mother’s Day candy gram commercial what would it say?
• A mother and her disabled daughter are trapped, but there is a box in the back of the car that her daughter desperately wants.
• Write about what you want most from your mother for Mother’s Day.
• – Was this time important to you?
• What do you wish your Mom knew?
• An Entomologist is studying ants when the earthquake hits.
• A mother and her child are on their way to the hospital. While walking over a bridge, the unthinkable happens.
• Write about a very early memory of your Mom.
• Write about a Mother teaching her child to do something.
• Write about a time that your mom represented a mother from a myth or legend.
• Write about a mother who has gone crazy.
• Who helps a mother-in-law with a broken nail?
• What two things do you look for when searching for a mother for your children?
• Write about a Mother’s Day gone bad.
• You are on a weekend getaway. There is a knock at the door. The police are there. They have a warrant for your arrest for murder.
• Write a funny story about a mother and her child.
• Write about someone doing something nice for their mother.
• Write about a mother/child that didn’t have a healthy relationship.
• Write about a photo of your mother.
• Write about a mother who spoils her child.
• If you choose a short story based prompt, you may want to use that as a story starter and write a novel. So for example if the prompt is to write about your mother’s flight in a hot air balloon ride then your story will be about a hot air balloon ride but it’ll also be about your character’s history / personality.
• Your mother isn’t around anymore. Your father sends you to a live-in writing camp where he sends all his children away. You are not happy.
• While looking at the sunset before bed, a daughter worries about her mother’s fears that her boyfriend might break her heart.
• What types of things do you have that reminds you of your Mom?
• Write about your favorite book you read to your mother as a child.
• Write about your favorite thing about your mom.
• A boy is afraid of the monsters that live under his bed, until he finds a special kind of monster that won’t scare him.
• Write about something you learned from your Mom.
• Write about your worst Mother’s Day.
• Your mom was in the kitchen when the intruder appeared.
• Write a conversation between a mother and daughter.
• Unsavory things lay still about your mothers past.
• Write about your mother and your first interaction with her.
• Imagine the world has ended and you are stuck under a rock with your mom.
• Write about the first two years of your life.
• Your mother is incarcerated. Her friends haven’t visited in a long time. You have the opportunity to write her a letter. Write about the role each of you played and what you learned. This could be a long or short piece but each person has to share and write a true experience that happened in their life.
• Mother’s Day Announcement
• How do you plan on spending Mother’s Day with your Mom?
• Write about a mother in one of your favourite stories or a book you recently read.
• You are given five wishes. Write about what you wish for your mother.
• Write about a Mother and her child inspired by a photo.
• Write about a mother with a secret.
• What does your mom think about global warming?
• Write about a day you spent with your Mom when you were a child.
• If your mother was not human, what would she be? Write about it.
• Write about a mother who believes too much.
• How could a witch change into a Mom? Wouldn’t the witch need to turn into a man?
• Write about the first time that your mother helped you with something that really was hard for you to do.
• A person asks God to give him the opportunity to go back in time and stop 1 of the 10 great evils that have wracked the planet. What does God say?
• Write about an absent-minded Mom.
• Your mother caught you breaking curfew.
• It is September 23, 1991, the 23rd anniversary of the Great Peace Accord between the Felanhar and the Nara. It has been a long and brutal journey but their people are finally on a path toward lasting peace. How will their two peoples deal with the past? Will it divide them or help them in the togetherness of a new day?
• Would it be possible to have a sentient plant like Elsa created in
• A boy receives news from the hospital that Mum is going to be fine.
• You are visiting grandma for her 106th birthday.
• Write about a famous Mother and Son duo.
• Write about what your mother sacrificed for you.
• Write about your estranged mother.
• Write about an argument you had with your Mom.
• Write about a crisis a mom faced.
• Write about a time your mother made you cry.
• Write about a pet that your Mother owned.
• Mother’s Day is a day to celebrate the love and importance of Mom. This year, why not celebrate Mother’s Day with a fictional Mommy dearest
• Write about being proud of your mother.
• Write a scene about how you met your mom.
• Write about a bad Mother’s eye day.
• A mother is taking her teenage son back to his room when he discovers her secrets under his bed.
• Write about a time your mother didn’t help you.
• Write about someone else’s Mom.
• Write about your worst Mother’s Day.
• Write about a time your mother made you cry.
• Write a letter to your mom.
• Write about a bad mother.
• Write about a time you helped your mother.
• You are living on a spaceship in space without a mother figure.
• Think about a time your mother was angry at you.
• Write about Mother’s Day from your characters’ perspective.
• Write about a child who has lost her mother.
• Children are stranded at the top of an enormous wall. They need Mother to get them down.
• Write about a selfish Mother.
• Write about your Mom having an invisible superpower.
• Write about a mother who disowned her child.
• Write about a time your mother rescued you.
• Write a poem about your Mother.
• Remember the day one of your family members came home from the hospital.
• Think about how the weather has affected your relationship with your Mom this year.
• Write a one page letter to your Mom thanking her for all she has done for you.
• Write about being the mother of a large family.
• In 100 words or less, write about a mother, grandmother, or aunt that you consider to be the most beautiful.
• What was the point that your mother/father decided to stop helping you?
• A mother gets a letter from her son from the army and her reply is . . .
• Write your best theory about how children are born.
• The child screams for their mother as the airplane that is carrying them crashes into the ground…
• A mother, a son, and a daughter are listening to a recording the day after Mother’s Day.
• A new mom receives a letter from a little girl who she adopted.
• Your mother is a superhero.
• Write about how you remember discovering your mother as a kid.
• Write about something important you learned from someone who wasn’t your mother.
• Write about a time your mother disappointed you.
• Does the cute kid next door who is always looking in your window have a reason?
• A down on your luck family member receives a call informing them about an inheritance or large sum of money. When they arrive to pick it up, they discover it’s one of their mother’s famous rhymes.
• It is Mother’s Day. Write something about a Mom you don’t like.
• A mother and her adult child often debate on certain political or environmental issues.
• Write about a mother who chooses one of her children over the others.
• Write about how Mother’s Day will be unusual in your story.
• Write about your favorite meal prepared by Mom.
• Write about what happens when they find out Mom is sick.
• Write about a time your mother helped someone else.
• Write about a boy or girl who has lost a mother.
• Partner with a second grade team and write about being a mother.
• Your Mom dies and sends you a message through a bird that visited her grave. What was the message?
• Have your Mom kill a character.
• Write about how you forgive your mother.
• What peculiar thing did you do that your mother just had no idea how to handle?
• Write about why you don’t have a mother.
• Stephen King has a book called on writing he says it is important to write every day since it is a must. Do you need to warm up every time you work out or play a sport?
• Write about your worst memory of your Mom.
• Write about a time your mother didn’t help you.
• Story starters involving birth…birthing process…stork.
• What is something your mother never told you?
• Write about an intense motherly love.
• Divorce and its effects on children and parents.
• Write about a time when you made your mother proud.
• Write about your mother’s dreams.
• Write about when you were a child.
• Write the obituary for your mother.
• Write about a doll making its way to its mother in one language and its father in another.
• Write about a grandfather or grandmother who raised you.
• Mother’s Day is a day to celebrate how amazing mothers are and the sacrifices they make on a daily basis. Do you know of a Mother that deserves to be featured? Make sure to comment below with your choice!
• Write about someone who’s mother has died.
• Your mother is juggling an egg on a high wire act at a circus. As she walks above the monkey cages a monkey throws a stone at the egg. What happens next?
• You can get more writing prompts with the Writing prompt app. You can also find prompts by searching for “Mother’s Day” in the Google Play store.
• Write about your wonderful mother.
• A weeping Mother cradles the head of her lifeless baby.
• Write about a delicate moment in mother and daughter relations.
• Write a poem in honor of Mothers Day.
• Mama’s little monster is driving her crazy on Mother’s Day.
• Write about a hero that is a Mother.
• The whole family is all gathered together for the holidays, when all of a sudden, the mother falls ill.
• Write about when your mother could not be there for you.
• During a work party, a young man hooks up with the boss’s daughter.
• Your mother is a rhinoceros. What’s for breakfast?
• Write about a time your Mom made you so angry you said, “I hate you.”
• The Mother’s Day statue in her garden is a different color every day.
• Write about when you made Mom proud.
• Write about your mother teaching you practical skills that you needed later in life.
• Write about your mom eating your pet tarantula.
• Write about a Mother that you know for whom you are grateful.
• A teenage girl’s mother gives us a glimpse into her past.
• Think about something special about your mother and write about it.
• Write about a time when you upset your mother.
• Write about your own Mom.
• Tell us about a given Christmas gift that your mother gave to you.
• Turn this photo of a mom into a poem.
• Write about a Mother’s love.
• Look at a photo of your mom and write what you think about it.
• Write about a mean Mom in your story.
• She’s No Angel
• Write about a Mother, and her daughter’s boyfriend.
• A mother writes a note for her child to read one year from today.
• Write about a fake Mother’s Day.
• Write about the last time you saw your mother.
• A mother’s tireless resolve to complete a task on schedule, even when faced with many hardships along the way.
• What is your mother’s favorite place to vacation?
• Write about a Mother/Daughter conflict.
• Write a poem about your Mom.
• A child walks to the cemetery at night and feels a presence.
• She couldn’t help, but she did.
• Your Mother shares a secret with you.
• Write about a famous mother and child pair.
• When do you think your mother tried her hardest to love you?
• What is morning preparation in your home like?
• The mother is sitting on the porch, reading a book. She doesn’t notice that the daughter has disappeared for over an hour.
• Make a list of favorite Mom phrases.
• Write about your favorite Mother’s Day tradition.
• Write about your work at home Mom.
• Write about the moment your mom arrived to pick you up from the airport.
• YOUR MOTHER WAS RIGHT!!
• Write about your mother at first glance.
• If your Mom veered off the ideal parent path, what did she do?
• Write about what a mother inspires you to do or be.
• Write about a family outing.
• A mother and her teenage son are driving in a fantasy setting and they discover they have left things back at home.
• Write a letter to your mother to let her know how she has impacted your life.
• The village where Davy grew up no longer exists.
• A mother who doesn’t feel like she has a mother.
• At the southern tip of old Bahn, the Great Sage Mendoza and his only disciple, the Great Sage Dubl, stood atop the tall mountain of Bahn, scanning the world in silence.
• What day did you bring her breakfast in bed?
• A mother writes her son a letter while he is fighting in Vietnam.
• I was thinking of my mother’s death when the earthquake hit
• Write about your mother as a kid.
• Visualize a little girl playing with her dolls and having secrets with them.
• Your mother is standing with your children, each holding one of her hands, when she announces she’s joining the circus.
• A mother and his child are in the backseat of the car when the car is struck in a drive-by-shooting.
• Tell a story of an alcoholic Mom you knew.
• A young lady is leaving her home to live with her boyfriend when the flood rises.
• Write about a Mother, Son or Daughter playing a prank on another sibling.
• Write about celebrating Mother’s Day on another planet.
• Write a poem or a song for your Mom that expresses what a good mother she is.
• A man and woman have a strained relationship because ever since the man got his robot, Mom no longer really hangs out with Dad.
• Do you have a Mum with poor memory? Bring in elements of a story that she is convinced happened in her past.
• Your Mother gets a letter from her neighbor that her cat has disappeared without a trace.
• Write about a time your mother disappointed you.
• You’ve just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. You’ll die in eight months, maybe less. Your husband and your son are standing to your left, your daughter is standing to your right. Your beloved mother is right in front of you, about to speak…
• Write about the time your mother was proud of your accomplishments.
• Write about a mother who could no longer care for her child.
• Migrate to Australia for a year and work as a Rock Lizard wrangler.
• The mother and daughter take a walk in the woods, hunting for flowers.  A wolf appears from behind a tree.  What will the mother do?
• Has your stance on a certain issue changed because of something a mother reminded you of?
• Have you ever heard a voice that sounds just like your mother?
• Write about your favorite thing your mother ever did for you.
• Write about your mother and the place where she raised you.
• Write about Mother’s Day.
• A girl who doesn’t talk because she doesn’t want to hurt her mom’s feelings.
• A mother sleeps on the bed with her newborn baby as the volcano erupts in Hawaii.
• A proud mother decides to cook the family meal for the weekend. She is in the kitchen when natural disasters strike.
• When everyone is completely silent, write about a time you overheard someone talking about your mother.
• Write about a Mother’s love.
• Mothers show a lot of love and care towards their children.
• From a woman’s point of view, write about arriving on the scene while pregnant.
• Write about Mothers that adopt their children.
• The human race is doomed, and there’s no hope.
• Write a dialogue between Mother’s Day and/or Ginny Weech.
• She lost a baby and can’t have children.
• What son/daughter would you wish to raise other than your own?
• You are a television with the living dead. Life hurts so much, but you can’t die. Anyone with a remote control who points it at you will see your life played for all to see.
• The dead rise on Mother’s Day.
• Write about a day in the life of your mother.
• Have your character weigh how little or how much their mother means to them.
• Your Mom can turn into a dragon.
• You are in the market shopping with your Mom when a killer on the loose grabs you both, demanding the police release all their prisoners.
• Write about mother’s day events that didn’t occur.
• Write about a time you hurt your mother. Write about a time your mother hurt you.
• Write about something your Mom did that makes her special to you.
• Have your Mom help you put your dreams on paper.
• A teenage girl disagrees with her mother’s rules, then finds out her mother was right.
• The family finished eating dinner, and just before they went to bed there was a knock on the door.
• Your mother is the last person you’ll ever really love.
• A divorce between your parents happens when you are young. You feel responsible and they blame you. How do they change their attitude towards you later on?
• Imagine your mother was a mermaid.
• Write about a time Mom wasn’t there for you.
• Write about how one day your Mom disappeared.
• You, your Mom, and your brother are all in an accident and the only chance of survival is for you to give Mom your kidney.
• Write about the world through the eyes of your child.
• Your Mom wants you to house sit for her and take care of her dog as she is going on a vacation.
• My mother is who she is.
• What’s the first good thing that happened for you on Mother’s Day, when you became an adult?
• Shakespeare inspires aspiring writers.
• Write about a Memory of the loss of a mother.
• Write about a time where you were scared at night and your Mom helped.
• Everyone is used to you wearing a superhero costume everyday.
• Write about a family party.
• Are mothers the best communicators with their kids? Write about a mother helping her child through miscommunication.
• Write about how your mother acts when no one is around.
• Write about your strangest Mother’s Day gift.
• A group of youngsters have hijacked a plane and crash land. They are stranded on a snowy peak. How does the mother survive and encounter her son?
• Write about the day your mother left you forever.
• Write about your mother giving you a hard time.
• Describe the special bond between Friends and their Moms.
• Write about your mother helping you raise your children.
• Write about a mentor in your life.
• A jazz singer becomes a mother at the age of seventeen.
• Writing a diary entry that a boy writes about his mom while being held hostage.
• In this world, Mother’s Day is reserved for a special type of woman.
• A mother and her child are travelling from California to New Mexico by train.
• Finish this sentence, “I have a special relationship with my mother because…”
• A mother rabbit and her three babies are climbing five hundred stairs to the Mother’s Day pageant on paw.
• A short from S.R. Johannes about a mom.
• Mother’s Day has brought your son in your life and now…
• Write an alternative ending to David Copperfield when David debates returning to London.
• A mother thrust upon an adopted child.
• Write about your favorite Mother.
• Write about your mother not being there for you.
• Jitters groaned and hunched in close to Bruce as his longtime guardian, The Batman, stood…
• Mom is an outdoor adventurer who brings her kids with…
• A panel of children describe their relationship with their mother.
• Obviously, this is only a small subset of the novels you could write about mothers. For a full list of possible themes and ideas for your writing, go here .
• How much money did you spend on your mother-in-law?
• Something strange has happened. It may be Mother’s Day, but you can’t bear to be with your kids…but you can’t bear to be home alone either.
• How was Mother’s Day celebrated in your family?
• A Mother’s day poem.
• Write about a mom and a daughter with a failing relationship.
• Write about when your Mom really felt like your Mom.
• You and your Mother are at the beach when the tsunami hits.
• Write about a mother you hate.
• Write about the part of your Mom that changed the way you see the world.
• He gets wind of how much fun she’s having with the boys and he gets jealous about it.
• Write about the relationship with your mother.
• Write about a young boy or girl, standing on his or her first day of school or first day of sports practice.
• Write a story from your mother’s perspective.
• Forced Incompatibility
• Write about your Mother’s name. Do not put Mom or Mommy in it. Write about a character who doesn’t believe in Mother’s Day.
• A mother brought her sick child to the healer, only to learn that it was too late.
• Write about your favorite family member, who might not be part of your immediate family.
• The mother walks into the room to find her daughter’s clown statue in the corner.
• A child should always know that their Mother will never leave them.
• A mother discovers her teenage daughter is pregnant.
• Write about baking cookies with Mom.
• Write about what it’s like to dislike your mother.
• A mother breastfeeds her child for the last time before her children leave the house to spend the summer with their father.
• Write about a time you disappointed your mother.
• Write about your mom when she was in her younger years.
• Your mother is going to have to have her right leg amputated after an accident.
• Write about mother and son relationships.
• Write about something that represents Mom to you.
• Write about your relationship with your Mom.
• Write about your Mom as a child.
• Write about a time, you thought you wouldn’t see your Mom and then were reunited.
• Write about the typical Mother’s Day dinner.
• Your mother is charged with murder on Mother’s Day. What did she do?
• Write about your mother as Wonder Woman.
• A mother is stoning her daughter for committing adultery then realizes that her daughter is guilty of the crime.

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