historical – Random Story Prompt

Favorite Era

Write a story about your favorite era of history.

Why is that era your favorite?

How accurate do you feel you are? How accurate are you really?

What did you get right about the era?

Write a story about the unknown origins of some holiday.

What real or fake holiday did you use?

What was so unknown about the holiday?

Write a story about a person that has the ability to see the history of a place.

What places do they go to? How old is the place?

How do they see the past?

How does this affect there current situation?

Write a story that flows an ancient myth, but from another point of view.

What culture did you pull the myth from?

How does your story compare to the myth?

Rewrite the story of Prometheus from greek mythology from another point of view.

From who’s point of view do we see the story?

From what point in history do we see the new story taking place? (far future, alien world, nature…)

Why was Prometheus important to the greeks? and why is he important in your story?

Rewrite a historical event from the point of view of a child that witnessed it.

What was the historical event?

How did your writing have to change to make it sound like it was coming from a child?

Does the child understand what is going on? Would it make it more interesting if the child did not know what was going on?

Write a story for same day as today in history.