Write a story where the main character wakes up in a place they know nothing about.
Category: Idea
Story prompts that take some idea and write on it.
Superstition
Write a story where the main character has some kind of superstition, that affects them every day.
Examples:
Always has to have something blue on them.
Can’t wear any black.
(Make it something meaningless, but they put some kind of meaning behind it)
Song in Story
Find a song and write a story that uses that song in it.
Next Movie
Take a recent movie you have watched and write a story for the next movie in the series.
Story Within a Story
Write a story within a story. Make sure the story inside matters somehow to the story on the outside.
Not Planned Main Character
Take a character that you never planned to make a main character of a story and write a story about them.
Why does this happen to the character?
What happens to the character?
Oppsite What If Statement
Take the story from the what if statment from a few days ago and write a story on the opposite to that stories “what if statement”.
Examples:
What if reptiles were evolved from people?
What if oil was what filled the seas?
What if animals had super powers?
Jump to Conclusions
Write a story where people jump to conclusions and then get disappointed when they are not correct.
What If
Create a story that is based on a what if statement.
For instance:
What if people were evolved from reptiles?
What if oil did not exist on earth?
What if people had super powers?
Mirror a Fairytale
Write a story that mirrors a fairytale, it can be turning Red Riding Hood into a gritty horror flick, it could be turning Snow White into a sci-fi fantasy, it could be taking Sleeping Beauty and swapping the characters about, but take some fairytale and put your own twist on it.
Once you are done:
How does your new fairy tail compared to the original?
What did you change in yours that worked in the old fairytale where it does not work so well in yours?
What can you learn from the fairytale?