Write a story about an alien invasion.
Why are the alien’s invading?
How are they invading?
What kind of people are they invading?
Category: Idea
Story prompts that take some idea and write on it.
Terraforming
Write a story about some group terraforming a planet.
What planet are they terraforming?
What are they doing to terraform the planet?
What point of view can a story like this be told from to make it interesting?
Him
Write a story from a man’s point of view.
What is unique to a man’s point of view?
How would the story change if the he was a she?
Could a story be more interesting if told from a female perspective?
Her
Write a story from a woman’s point of view.
What is different about a woman’s point of view?
How is a story of a woman different from a man?
What would happen in stories if the genders were switched?
Jealousy
Write a story about a person that has a sibling having a birthday and the jealousy about the sibling.
Why are they jealous?
What affect does this have on the others around them?
How far is the person willing to go?
Unable to Help
Write a story about someone that wants to help someone else.
Why do they not help?
How could they help?
What happens if they do help?
Tortured
Write a story about someone that is being tortured.
How are they tortured? Do other inflict it or see it?
Why are they tortured?
How does this affect this person?
Trapped
Write a story about someone that is trapped in a situation that they are trying to escape.
Why are they trapped?
How are they trapped?
Do they ever escape?
Waking
Write a story about someone that has just awoken from a deep sleep of some kind, and have no memory of their past.
Where do they wake up?
Why do they have no memory?
How do they go on with there lives?
Pranked
Write a story about someone that has a prank pulled on them that goes wrong.
Why do they get the prank pulled on them?
What goes wrong?
What do they do when the prank goes wrong?