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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.
Do you love coffee? This character does. Give one of your characters an obsession with coffee or coffee beans
We dare you to give one of your characters an imaginary friend to argue with. Bonus points if the imaginary friend moves the plot forward they turn out…
Ask a friend if you can sit in their dusty attic or loft space and write your 1667 words. Refuse to explain why you want to do this….
All of your characters shall be given names based on the roads and streets where you live. Extra points if you set your story near where you live…
With NaNoWriMo just around the corner, it seems like the ideal time to present you with some exciting prompts to give you ideas for your NaNo Novel. Here…
Grand Elder Tashmin is a character I cooked up for HFY-style prompts. Here is a collection of Grand Elder Tashmin prompts we posted on Tumblr.
See how many unexpected places you can have a pumpkin show up within your story.
No one on Earth knew that there had been a massive cloaked ship in orbit for the last sixteen years.
In all that time, the ship’s AI has been calculating the answer to a complex problem. Today, the AI came to a decision. The ship opened a small,…
This is a selection of my favourite prompts posted to the Muse Twitter account.
You are part of the first deep-space exploration expedition. You have landed on a planet covered with an exactly sized hexagonal grid. You are able to move or…
On Twitter, we have been tagging images that could make for a great setting with the hashtag #PotentialSettings. Here are five of my favourites. If you liked these,…
You are part of the first deep-space exploration expedition. You have settled into orbit around an Earth-like planet. It has a large moon that is made entirely of…
I gave an AI the prompt “Stuck for a good story idea? Use this novel writing prompt.” It gave me this. I’ve noticed some awesome novel writing prompts…
You fancied doing a little DIY so you borrowed a set of tools from a friend. You are pretty sure that some or all of these tools are…
In case you did not know, The Muse has an outpost on Tumblr. Here are five of our more lively prompts from Tumblr. The last prompt has a…
You took a summer job delivering pizzas. One of your regulars is an honest-to-goodness wizard. The last two people to deliver to him vanished under mysterious circumstances. You,…
This is a gallery of fantasy images we have found that seemed like cool prompts in their own right.
For the last few months, you have been enjoying a back and forth with some eccentric in the local paper’s letters section. You are starting to suspect that…
Today you received a letter from your future self. How does the letter affect you and in what ways does it change your life?
It turns out that your family has an extremely wealthy relative. No one has spoken with him in over thirty years. Today, your uncle called you. “I’m dying,”…
Cupid had his work cut out this time. He was a workaholic; she wanted a man to share her love of gardening with.