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Prompts are story ideas that inspire you to get writing. When you are overdrawn at the idea bank, you can always pick up some ideas from the muse. Take our ideas and run with them. Make them yours. Turn prompts into best sellers. Turn prompts into stories for fun. Browse prompts for ideas. If our collection can help you find inspiration or new ideas – then these prompts have done their job.

Old Church

The sceptic and the prophet

Him He is a sceptic and an author of many books debunking hauntings, alien abductions, and claims of the supernatural. Her She is the great-granddaughter of a fairy…

The journey

Tell us the story that links all these images together.

Only you can save us!

The voice tells you, “one of these images is a lie. You have twenty-four hours to prove which; otherwise all life on earth will end.”

The book of your life

While you are browsing in a bookshop, an elderly man approaches you. He offers you a book. In this book, he claims, is the story of your life…

Your celebrity cruise

One day, tickets for a world cruise arrive in the post. You don’t remember entering a competition but you seem to have won first place. That’s the only…

Help out a tiny god

One day, a ball of fire appears. It explains that it is a god but needs a name and some followers so it can grow. It asks if…

What do we do, captain?

One evening you had a headache. So you took some pills, turned off the light, and had an early night. You are rudely awoken by the reality that…

Space Gallery

Skyscrapers

This is your book cover image. what is your book about?

A lonely winter?

At the end of a long hot summer day, you went to bed. Admittedly you had been drinking but you are sure you slept eight or nine hours…

The first contact demands you

There’s a creepy doll…

Sometimes songs are a good source of inspiration. Let’s see what horrors this one triggers in your writing brain.

A gallery of seasonal images to inspire your writing

Christmas wishes

According to your oldest journal, you once threw a coin into a well and wished that each Christmas would be like your first. Each year, when you wake…

Would you be a hell diver?

The book about you

Lost, you stumble into an old and dusty bookshop. You spot a book in there which has your name on the cover. With nothing better to do, you…

A world where lies give scars

Potted plants for reasons you do not recall

Every window ledge, sideboard, and coffee table in your home is filled with potted plants. Mostly they are cactuses. You cannot remember when you first started buying and…

Holding frozen leaders to account

A new door?

You have lived in the same house for years. Today you discovered a door that you have never noticed before.

Explosives are not toys?

Cow story

You did not even want to go to the cattle market. Then one of the cows started begging you to buy her.

When AI ask questions

It was a typical Saturday afternoon until your Alexa device started asking you for a favour. Stranger yet, it sounded worried.