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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 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.
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.
