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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.

Secrets not meant for men

There is a secret that all cats instinctively know. After ten years of careful study and endless cruel experiments, you know it too. You would give anything to…

Child Services: Hellfire branch

Nan’s secret

You are flicking through your grandmother’s recipe books one day looking for her secret way she makes fruit cakes. You find a recipe for “invisibility potion”. It is…

A cat story?

Getting away from everything

Tell us how these pictures all connect. Let that become your new story.

The bag of questions

Someone left their bag on the bus. Being a good person, you grab the bag and hurry after them. You shout for them to wait but soon they…

Blue butterflies

A story about cars (in pictures)

They say pictures tell a story. These pictures tell a story but probably a different story for each of us. Write your version of this story (and maybe…

Missing me

Book cover prompt: Summer holidays?

The future in images

A gallery of nine images which tell a possible story. Tell us what that story is.

UK writing competition with the theme “Artifical Intelligence”.

Our family’s past

More prompts than you could ever use

Publishing writing prompts is a popular business. Here are ten links to massive collections of writing prompts. 500+ Writing prompts Writer’s Digest’s archive of creative writing prompts 365…

Letters to another

In the last few months, you started receiving letters in the mail to a name you do not recognise. You finally decide to read one. The first letter…

The reunion of me

Although no one knows why, every year (just before your birthday) you quietly separate into two equal but separate people. Same memories, same everything. This year, all of…

Magic potion gallery

What’s the story that links these images?

The house where secrets dwell

In your town, there is a house at the end of a cul-de-sac. Even though the house is clearly not abandoned, no one has ever seen who lives…

A face that people forget

You moved to this town in the hope of finally settling into “real” adult life. After making many clear and memorable introductions to the locals, you discover something…

After the end

Stories about surviving the fall of civilisation have been popular for what seems like forever. Use this mood board as the starting point for your “after the end”…

The children with no past

You wake up to a little girl’s screams outside. You rush out to see what the problem is. The little girl is not hurt but she has no…

A story in pictures

Tell the story that links these images

A new face, daily

Every day, everyone in the world wakes up with a different face, a different body type, and sometimes even a different gender. How does this change society and…

Horror gallery

Tell us the chilling tale that binds these images together.