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Hi lovely people! Just as a heads up, we’ll be temporarily changing posting dates for November to Tuesday and Thursday to help me not go completely crazy during NaNoWriMo. We’ll be back to three times a week soon after! xo
Stuck on what to write? Here are 50 writing prompts that might get your creative juices flowing!
Consider writing a story about:
- AI taking over the world.
- A missed appointment.
- Getting on the wrong bus.
- A stray dog.
- A proposal.
- A robbery.
- A character being reluctant to do what they’re told.
- A town that is a century behind the rest of the world.
- A character whose dreams predict the future.
- A baker accused of murder when their donuts are sabotaged.
- Returning from war with no memory.
- A counsellor having nightmares of their patients’ darkest stories.
- An actor at the Globe Theatre dying on stage.
- The end of the world.
- The beginning of the world.
- A salon in Victorian England well-ahead of its time.
- A child saving their parent from danger.
- Peoples’ behaviour literally changing with the weather.
- A hitch-hiker who changes the world.
- A hotel night clerk.
- An idyllic society.
- School districts being overhauled and teaching actual practical things.
- A student bringing something to show-and-tell that causes the end of the world.
- A middle-eastern politician fighting for women’s’ rights.
- How the world might look if suffrage hadn’t happened.
- How the world might look if the “stereotypical roles of men and women” were reversed.
- A magical land you can walk right into, but never out of.
- A travelling circus that hires the homeless to give them a fresh start.
- A cat who becomes a famous model.
- The merging of the world as we know it and the ice age.
- A journal found in a coffee shop that’s filled with a list of crimes that the writer admits to having committed.
- Star-crossed lovers whose dreams are the only place where they can be together.
- A parody of a Shakespeare play.
- A story you recall your grandmother telling you as a child.
- A total reform of the police and prison system.
- A tea-party with all your childhood bullies.
- A tea-party with all your childhood heroes.
- What the world would be like if you could change anything and everything.
- Our world if mental health were prioritized.
- Out world is suicide weren’t an option, and not even something a person ever thought about.
- What would happen after we die.
- An All Hallows’ Eve inspired world where the dead could speak to the living.
- A Ouija board that spoke to you in the deceased’s voice, instead of spelling things out.
- The world’s history in reverse-order, starting from now and watching it get smaller and less advanced.
- The finding and implementing of the vaccine to prevent all forms of cancer from yourself and those around you.
- An all-inclusive vacation that literally never ends.
- How your life would look if you committed to the first thing you wanted to do with your life.
- Your dream wedding, with a shocking twist.
- Starting over from scratch after a fire destroyed an entire town.
- Someone finally admitting their dream of becoming an author, and taking steps toward that.
There will be more to come in the future, but I hope some of these writing prompts will help you to sit down and get writing!
If you’d prefer physical writing prompts, you can always try something like this from Amazon. <3