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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.
You took a wrong turn on your way into town. You now find yourself in what appears to be 1877.
Today you learned that you do not live on Earth. No one has even seen that planet in the last thousand years.
There is a place along a river with a secret. The place is a long walk from the town, hard to get to, and rarely visited. The secret…
Overnight, a tall tower of metal beams appeared on the outskirts of town. No one seems to know why it is there or who made it. Local birds…
It has been a long and hot summer. Autumn should have arrived with rain and falling leaves. Summer continues uninterrupted anyway. You know why. It turns out the…
You were the weakest and least athletic person on the ship. So you were surprised when you were the only one to survive the crash onto this undiscovered…
An alien ship packed filled with unknown technologies has crashed in the Arctic Ocean. Now the race is on to recover the craft and claim the technology.
The invention of time travel marked the end of the human race. That was the first thing you read after your trip; the Time Travel Device still warm…
The rain had been falling for days. A relentless hammering on the windows served to remind you that now was not the time to go outside. Sometimes the…
You have been assigned to The Potent Void VFP – one of the faster ships in the fleet. The problem is the ship AI has very strong opinions…
Despite your Master’s Degree in psychology, you ended up working in Advanced Computers because that was where the work was. This has left you uniquely qualified for a…
Blaze is hired by a beautiful jazz singer. She wants his help recovering a missing diamond pendant. She says that Franky Chayan took the gem but Chayan died…
Here is a sampling of our Twitter-based sci-fi writing prompts. Many of them are HFY type prompts but feel free to take them anywhere you want.
Grand Elder Tashmin has ordered you to give a presentation to the Star Magus Council explaining why humans are not the ideal familiars they think they are. The…
You arrive home to discover your parents have finished off nine two-hundred-year-old bottles of wine. They were still reminiscing about the grape harvest that year when you went…
You have the ability to see who a person’s dream partner is. You don’t even need to see someone in person – a photograph or a good description…