Writing Prompts

Humans discover perfectly geometrical objects orbiting a dying sun. Scientists and astronauts alike are ecstatic. That is until they discover that each object contains a single human corpse.

Every hospital has a doctor with one very special job. Their job comes into play any time a patient is brought to the emergency room in a life-threatening state. They must fight off the physical form of death – buying time for the surgeons to save the patient's life.

Earth exists alongside a parallel universe. No one on earth ever knew this, until the veil between them slowly starts to tear, for unknown reasons. The creatures emerging from the cracks are horrifying, evil beings.

Many years ago, a young human child was accidentally sent to an alien planet during a botched teleportation experiment. The alien society welcomed the child. Now, earth has finally made contact and they want their child back.

Aliens are trying to abduct humans undetected by placing them in habitats that mimic their lives. They are mostly successful but lack the understanding to capture the small and intricate details.

You are a wizard disguising yourself as a video editor. You play off your spells as just another camera trick.

Millions of giant crystals suddenly land all over the earth one day. Humans eventually figure out how to harness their energy. It's been several hundred years, and the aliens that placed them there are back.

You are putting the finishing touches on your time machine – you believe you have finally cracked the code. It works, but there is only one problem. It sends the entire world back in time, not just you.

An alien species from a few galaxies over lands on Earth, having evacuated their own dying planet. They have no desire to take over; they simply assimilate into society and live peacefully.

Your grandpa dies mysteriously and leaves you his giant mansion. Upon investigation, you find that the basement had been converted into a sort of jailhouse. Housed inside are several different supernatural creatures.

Long ago, our ancestors learned not to accept anything from a faerie or elf. It automatically creates a magical debt. Now, modern-day fey have been giving out food samples at supermarkets for many years. They are about to call in all of these debts.

You are a futuristic android assassin who is quickly developing the ability to think and feel. You learn that after your latest mark has been terminated, you will be decommissioned. So, you decide to become the mark's bodyguard instead.

Robots have enslaved humanity. There are a few survivors who are free and hiding in the wreckage of their old city. They communicate in the only way the robots can't yet understand: Riddles.

You wake up to the terrible news that your planet is being attacked. They call themselves humans. Their home planet, "Earth," is no longer habitable and now they want yours.

Your protagonist is deaf but can read minds. No one knows they have this ability. One day they meet another deaf person and realize they can read minds as well.

You are just about to enter an interview for your dream job at the company you've been eyeing for ten years. On your way into the CEO's office, another employee catches your eye, and with a terrified look, they mouth "run."

You are a highly trained assassin working for a private, criminal corporation. You look through the scope at your target. They turn around – it's your high school crush.

You die young but are pleased to discover that the afterlife is much better than you ever imagined. However, you've only been there a few hours when your soul is mercilessly sucked back to earth. Someone from your life can't move on from your death.

Write about a god of darkness who just wants to be a god of light.

You are an experienced, seasoned psychologist. One day, they call you stating they need you to test a "new asset." You arrive to find an advanced new AI ready for your assessment.

Your character is an immortal who is not yet aware of said immortality.

The zombie apocalypse has been going on for six months. Things are looking pretty good for humans, because the zombies are pretty weak and lame.

You are visited by a mysterious stranger who gifts you a wonderful superpower: superhuman strength and a body that is impervious to any harm. This would be most wonderful… if it weren't for your horrible sleepwalking habit.

Most time travelers worry about changing history. The real danger lies in making pop culture references before the original material has been created or released.

Someone has greatly wronged you. You decide to seek the advice of the Goddess of Vengeance. You expect a strong and mighty warrior. Instead, you find a short, sweet old lady tending to her garden.

You are the reincarnation of a powerful wizard, sent from the 12th century, with all your memories intact. You are growing frustrated with being a child.

On their eighteenth birthday, everyone is able to choose a superpower and be granted it immediately. The only catch – you can't have something that someone else has already claimed.

Every time someone says "I'll love you until (insert seemingly impossible circumstance)" is binding. Lakes start evaporating, pigs are flying, and happy couples everywhere are breaking up.

The afterlife includes some "community service." You must serve as an agent of death. You only have one death left before you've paid off your debt. Unfortunately, this person just refuses to die.

You're a lawyer who can talk to the dead. You have an important murder trial coming up. Unfortunately, the dead have a habit of lying.

One day, the world wakes up to find they are only able to speak in rhymes.

There are two rival superheroes operating in the same city. They openly trash talk to each other. They are also roommates, but identities have yet to be discovered.

You have a curse: whenever you become best friends with someone, they die within a week. You've made it your mission to become best friends with the worst people you can find.

You are a bored god walking the streets of earth pretending to be human. One day, a group of muggers jump you and drag you to their car. You decide to go with the flow.

You have a tiny pet dragon who guards your wallet. It's cute until you win the lottery. Turns out, your dragon grows with the size of the wealth it protects.

Everyone at the Halloween party suddenly transforms into their costume.

In a moment of compassion, you wished for the genie you found to be free. Turns out, a genie lamp can't be without a genie. As soon as you made the wish, you were trapped inside the lamp.

Everyone is jumping on the "23andMe" bandwagon. Your results come in the mail. Instead of the regular package, you receive a note: "Please contact us immediately, we found something we've never seen before."

Your character is literally the spawn of the devil. They are set to inherit rule over the underworld, but they want no part of it. They save one soul and all hell breaks loose – literally.

You somehow missed the evacuation of the earth. You are all alone on planet earth – or are you?

A strange virus starts rapidly killing people. It doesn't take long for people to realize the virus is only killing off the total jerks. Everyone suddenly becomes unsure if they even want to bother finding a cure.

Your phone rings and you recognize the caller ID as the landline of your childhood home. The name on the screen is your own.

Ever since you were five years old, you occasionally get visions 5-10 seconds into the future. One day, you get a vision 10 years into the future, and things don't look good.

You serve as head of security for an extremely rich family. Monsters went extinct years ago, but these people are paranoid. One day you see something that makes you wonder if this family is actually on to something.

You invent time travel, though all you can do is observe. You decide to go back and witness your favorite historical event. You soon realize that what happened was completely different from what is taught in schools.

You've noticed odd occurrences ever since your childhood. Friends leave and new ones arrive. Governments change with no apparent explanation. You discover that these things happen because a group of rogue time-travelers is constantly changing the timeline.

You committed a horrible crime in a past life and were sentenced to 12 life sentences. Each time you die, your reincarnated self is tracked down and thrown in prison. This is now your sixth term.

A villain made a device that stole everyone's soul – leaving them empty, grey, and desperate to fill the void. Except for you. Turns out, you never even had a soul.

You are a mafia hitman. Your best friend, also a hitman, is contemplating becoming a police informant.

The world is facing a horrible apocalypse. You've read so many dystopian YA novels that you already know the very best way to rebuild society.

An old coworker contacts you after many years. He always said he'd hold you a spot and let you know when it was time. It's time.

Three best friends move into a house together. Every week, $2000 cash shows up at the front door. No one knows where it comes from. Even security cameras never catch who leaves it.

You can read the mind of anyone whose eyes you look into. One day, you look into someone's eyes and hear multiple voices speaking at once.

One day, gravity suddenly reverses. Most of humanity dies. The survivors built bridges and towers that hang from the ceiling. Nobody knows what lies below.

After many years of evil schemes, you finally defeated the superhero. You parade his body around the town square. The cheers and applause were the last things you were expecting.

You have created a large and successful drug ring without your family ever knowing. Your son decides he wants to join the police force.

Real names have remarkable and often uncontrollable power. This is why most of the world uses aliases. You decide to start using your real name.

You can see death marks on people – a small marking that signifies how they will die. One day, you meet someone without a death mark.

You see the shadows everywhere. Most of the time, they are attached to a person. Sometimes, they aren't. You come to realize that the detached shadows belong to a person who is about to be killed.

Everyone has implants that store their memories. Someone close to you dies, and you find some horrifying secrets in their memories.

You have a unique ability that lets you see through the water. One day, you use it on the ocean. What you see in the depths terrifies you to the core.

You are a world-renowned magician. What nobody knows, is that you have a ghost friend helping you. However, his "help" is starting to get more and more destructive.

Death wants you off the earth. The devil doesn't want you anywhere near hell. Your life is surrounded by constant near-death experiences followed by crazy life-saving miracles.

One day you wake up in a dungeon in a body that isn't yours, with no memory. Upon trying to leave, you are killed by monsters. Once again, you awake in the dungeon in another body.

You wake up to static on the TV. Before you can turn it off, a voice starts speaking over the noise.

A group of survivors is living on a small island surrounded by zombies on the mainland, always just waiting for them.

You live in a world of ghosts and demons and work as a paranormal investigator. This time, a spirit has walked into your office with a human problem.

An old eccentric relative left you their cat and their glasses. That cat is pretty normal. That's what you thought anyway, until you put on the glasses.

All of humanity has died and you are the last one alive. You die, and are surprised to find no real afterlife. Instead, all you hear is: "Finally! Can we start the next round now?"

Don't make eye contact, ever. It is deadly.

You have the ability to see a short vision of the way someone will die. One day, you see someone who is apparently murdered by you.

You've been fighting in the war against aliens for ten years. One day, you sacrifice yourself to destroy one of their bases. After the explosion, you wake up on the side of the road, the date is 20 years in the past.