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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.

Lost in 1863

Thank you for playing

Art and the rain

Can you tell us the story that links these images together?

Starting stuff: Flying castle

Names: Georgie and Morice Place: A flying castle

The manager and the mother

Him A middle manager with a large collection of nearly identical ties. He drives like the world will end if he does not arrive soon enough. In the…

Murder power

Magical spelling error

Poly, Phyllis, and the fairy key

Yesterday, I mentioned that H. E Theatre Kids were doing daily live and interactive story telling. Day three was today. Today’s story is wide open with possible further…

Chaos vs order

Him He is a partner in a slowly failing business. He longs for something new in his life despite following the exact same routine for the past fifteen…

Sleepwalking detective

The key to all doors

While rummaging through a box of old things you find a key. When you try to find what the key opens, you discover that it fits every lock…

The witch and the scientist

Him He works for CERN and has dedicated his life to science and discovery. The type of man who carefully and plans ahead. He is considerate and cautious….

Her formless presence

Fame?

One day you realise that everyone you ever meet knows your name. Not only that, but they know details about your current relationship and your ongoing feud with…

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?