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The North Remembers

by Gaby

Rated: 13+ · Message Forum · Activity · #2126573

Part of GoT

"Game of Thrones"

"The North Remembers"

"Endless Night"

"Westeros"

"House Of Black & White "

"King's Landing"

Writing Challenges ~ Take Your Pick

Here, you have your pick of writing

Write for any prompt you wish

Don't forget to include your Word Count inside your entry

Stories cannot be longer than 1000 words

The same prompts are used for poetry

Don't focus too much on the entire prompt if it helps - a single word chosen will do

Poetry - no longer than 40 lines, 150 Word Count maximum

This challenge does NOT have a time limit!

Click on the link below each image to view and choose a prompt

You do NOT need to tell us what you're choosing until you're done with the written item

Once done, post which prompt image, which prompt #, your written item

Any questions, please post in the forum below

'You' in the prompts doesn't always mean you. It means your character

You can pick each prompt twice - once for Story, once for Poetry entry

What's Her Story - Written from a female perspective

What's His Story - Written from a male perspective

Newspaper Clippings - Written as articles, stories/poems

Musically Challenged - Songs for inspiration

Western World - Not everything is about the old west

Fantasy & Fairy Tale World - Could fall under more than a few genres

Under The Sea - Treasures, Islands, Pirates...

Travel Marvel - All about traveling - where to is your choice

Stolen Artifacts - Crime, Mystery, etc. - Use your imagination

Space Adventures - Space, Aliens, Dystopian,...

Giovanni's - Certain settings/places where characters start from

New Orleans - Mecca for supernatural, unusual, witches, etc.

Mirror, Mirror - A twist within stories - your choice

650 prompts total: For Stories and/or poetry - a total of 1300 entries

No, you're not expected to complete them all

1000 Points per story written + WC (unless you forget the WC - we will not remind you)

500 Points per poem written + WC (Same goes here - no reminders)

Once it's checked, we will not accept later changes or the WC added at a later date)

The points will stay no matter how much you plead. Sorry!

Reward: ▶︎

What's Her Story Prompts ▶︎

1. Your character is new to a small town.

2. Start your story with a character being led somewhere by a stray cat.

3. A job interview with obstacles.

4. Your protagonist walks past an intriguing stranger, then turns around to take another look at them. The stranger turns around, too. Write about what happens next.

5. "I'll be here forever," they said. But they had a different definition of 'forever' than you.

6. She needed saving from the confines of her own home.

7. Set your story on a warm summer evening with a full moon, when everything feels magnetic and your character’s about to meet someone important.

8. Write a story about a character who is trying to become a better person.

9. She had that tint of craziness in her soul that made her believe she could actually make a difference.

10. Set your story at a wedding reception, where a group of high school friends are meeting for the first time in years.

11. She's a farmer who lost a flock of geese.

12. "Ma'am, move aside. We're here to investigate a crime."

13. Your rich aunt has just passed away, leaving you with an inheritance of $500,000. What do you do with it?

14. Put on that party dress!

15. She's always had that rebellious streak. She gets it from her mother.

16. Write about two friends who were once inseparable, but now find themselves growing apart — or even friends turned enemies.

17. We can't have a crisis. My schedule is already full.

18. Start your story with the whistle of a kettle.

19. "They don't tell you what the real world is about."

20. Lost in a foreign city where they don’t speak the language, your character uses a translation app to get around, but constantly runs into problems.

21. Your character finds out that her friends' step brother is actually her real brother, making them all related.

22. She must have lost her damn mind, climbing through a window in the dead of night.

23. Write a story about someone who finds someone’s diary, and tries to reunite it with its owner. It’s up to you whether they read it or not!

24. You've worked all day at the vet clinic and just when you're about to lock up...

25. You decide to go to the part, but when you get there...

26. Write about somebody looking for love on a reality TV show.

27. A package arrives at your door, but it belongs to the surly neighbor across the street.

28. Your character is known as the town gossip. One day, it comes back to bite them.

29. An intelligent young girl solves a big problem, but becomes frustrated that no one wants to believe her.

30. You're writing and all of a sudden...

31. Write a story that includes the line “my lips are sealed.”

32. "A mother's love doesn't always last forever."

33. Write about a character who discovers the grass isn't actually greener on the other side.

34. A newspaper clipping shows your character's fiance marrying someone else.

35. An old lady goes on vacation just to come back and...

36. End your story with a kiss at midnight.

37. Sibling rivalry.

38. Write a story in the second person POV.

39. Your character loves to sit in town square and watch people.

40. You wake up one day to discover that you've been transported inside of a novel... and it's a horror novel.

41. A small town girl at a state-fare goes missing.

42. A character finds an old roll of film, and takes it to be developed. What do they find?

43. Nothing is as it seems in your character's world.

44. Write a story about a summer fling.

45. Every night your character hears someone knocking at the door but there's no one there.

46. Write about someone deliberately trying to make somebody else envious.

47. You find a doll that looks exactly like you.

48. Write a story set in a dog park on a spring day.

49. Sometimes you have to dance in the rain.

50. When all that's left is you.

What's His Story Prompts ▶︎

1. He packed up and walked out the door to never return

2. Write about a relationship, either romantic or platonic, that is being affected by jealousy.

3. While out walking one night, you come across a comic book store that you've never seen before. You enter, and the odd man behind the counter...

4. You are a knight on the way to save a princess, which is something you do on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, no princess has been interested in marrying you, even after witnessing your heroic acts.

5. Write about a cynical character who somehow ends up on a blind date.

6. He walked into the basement with the horror movie from the night before playing in his head.

7. Write about two people striking up an unlikely friendship.

8. Write a story about somebody in love with someone from their past.

9. The sun had set and so had his dreams.

10. Write about two friends getting into a fist fight.

11. Everyone was busy, so I went to the movie alone.

12. He fumbled in the darkness looking for the light switch, but when he finally found it there was someone already there.

13. Write about two neighbors who cannot stand each other.

14. You have taken a pizza delivery job, which is perfect for you considering you can run at superhuman speeds...

15. He stepped gingerly onto the bridge knowing that enchantment awaited on the other side.

16. One day, you wake up... and your pet has started talking to you! What do they say?

17. My uncle's favorite pastime was building cars out of noodles.

18. Write a story where a local takes a newcomer under their wing.

19. He ended up burning his fingers poking someone else's fire.

20. Set your story in a casino.

21. The bullet pierced the window shattering it before missing Danny's head by mere millimeters.

22. Your character's father stands up to give a speech at Thanksgiving. What he says next surprises everyone.

23. Start your story with a character looking through an old family photo album.

24. He went on a whiskey diet and immediately lost three days.

25. Write about somebody whose intentions are pure, but somehow always manages to do the wrong thing.

26. His ultimate dream fantasy consisted of being content and sleeping eight hours in a row.

27. Write a story in which someone returns to their hometown.

28. Write a story where a character’s life completely changes over the course of a meal.

29. It all started with a random letter.

30. Your rich aunt has just passed away, leaving you with an inheritance of $500,000. What do you do with it?

31. Start your story with one character setting up a romantic dinner, and end it with them looking at a framed wedding photo.

32. He realized there had been several deaths on this road, but his concern rose when he saw the exact number.

33. The delicious aroma from the kitchen was ruined by cigarette smoke.

34. All he wanted was a candy bar. It didn't seem like a difficult request to comprehend, but the clerk remained frozen and didn't seem to want to honor the request. It might have had something to do with the gun pointed at his face.

35. There are few things better in life than a slice of pie.

36. Write a story about a teenager whose family is moving.

37. Before he moved to the inner city, he had always believed that...

38. There was little doubt that the bridge was unsafe.

39. He picked up trash in his spare time to dump in his neighbor's yard.

40. He found the chocolate covered roaches quite tasty.

41. Start your story with someone being forbidden from doing something.

42. It was always dangerous to drive with him since he insisted the safety cones were a slalom course.

43. It wasn't quite yet time to panic. There was still time to salvage the situation.

44. Write a story that involves eavesdropping.

45. He ran out of the door without half the stuff he needed for work, but it didn't matter. He was late and if he didn't make this meeting on time, someone's life may be in danger.

46. He knew there was a correct time and place to reveal his secret and this wasn't it. The issue was that the secret might be revealed despite his best attempt to keep it from coming out.

47. It was the best compliment that he'd ever received although the person who gave it likely never knew.

48. Write about a character who wakes up in the future and learns that their legacy has outlasted them — for better or worse.

49. The bridge spanning a 100-foot gully stood in front of him as the last obstacle blocking him from reaching his destination.

50. It was that terrifying feeling you have as you tightly hold the covers over you with the knowledge that there is something hiding under your bed.

Newsletter Clippings Prompts ▶︎

1. The underground bunker was filled with chips and candy.

2. Interview your favorite fictional villain.

3. Write about a student reporter uncovering a university scandal.

4. The urgent care center was flooded with patients after the news of a new deadly virus was made public.

5. Choose a controversial topic from the news. Write an opinion piece on it.

6. The solar eclipse uncovered a darker truth.

7. This year's spring showers are as frequent as ever, except for one big difference — the sky is showering money.

8. Write about the first half human half alien baby.

9. The waves were crashing on the shore; it was a lovely sight.

10. Write about two rival academics pursuing the same grant.

11. Write a story about a librarian that doesn’t fit into the common librarian stereotypes.

12. Your newly published book just hit the market near you!

13. Write about an apocalypse triggered by technology. What happened?

14. One day you finally get your wish when you are sent to interview the owner of a mysterious house that has become a local legend.

15. At some point, the aliens will show themselves to us - what do you know about it?

16. The Ol' Faithful is about to erupt any day now. You're standing at the front lines as the head reporter.

17. Write a story in which someone gets credit for something they didn’t do.

18. Start your story with someone receiving a one-star review.

19. Title of your entry/item should be "The Hoarder's Love Affair".

20. The New York Times runs a weekly Modern Love column. Write your own "tiny love" column about a relationship.

21. Bonnie and Clyde in modern society.

22. Jessie James's famous hideout is up the road from me - "Up the road" means about a 30 min ride for us country folk! - and there's a new discovery! What is it?

23. Write a story about a limited edition item going on sale.

24. In order to get hired, you need to interview your boss.

25. Write a story set during a visit to the graveyard.

26. In a small town, Betsie escaped her pen again. Betsie is a heifer.

27. An unusual amount of Robins (specific type of bird) has plagued the area where I live. What's the deal?

28. Write about false news coverage of an important event.

29. Write about characters putting something into a time capsule.

30. You wrote an article about Pandora's Box. Next day, it's sitting on your work desk.

31. Set your story in a type of prison cell.

32. The Hidden City Of Death Valley - Read The Story

(Please, don't get lost there!

33. Create a holiday — one of your own making. What is this holiday of yours? Who celebrates it? How do you celebrate it?

34. Jim liked driving around town with his hazard lights on.

35. Purgatory Canyon, Colorado Treasure. Read more: Colorado Treasure

36. Write a story about a character who is trying to share groundbreaking news, but isn’t being taken seriously.

37. "When in doubt, look intelligent."

38. Write about a caveman who accidentally time travels to present-day.

39. Lover's Lane myth. There's more to it than necking.

40. The furniture store is full homeless people.

41. Write a story set in a school musical.

42. Start your story with somebody taking a photo.

43. A famous actor tells you about a crime they committed.

44. Write a short story where all of the characters are villains!

45. A co-worker receives bad news, and you're supposed to tell it to the world, yet you can't stop laughing.

46. You get to create a new nation. What is your national animal? National flower? National anthem?

47. A major news event that will change the world forever.

48. We are officially told we live in a parallel universe - our timeline has changed. Report! What was the event that changed it? How?

49. Your character got fired. Next day, it's broadcasted!

50. A journalist has been granted permission to visit the premises of a lab carrying out top-secret work. They could never have anticipated what they’d find…

Musically Challenged Prompts ▶︎

Western World Prompts ▶︎

1. First visit in the country for a city boy.

2. Write a story where a character is experiencing parallel realities.

3. You are a private eye in the heart of the city who is often tasked with scoping out adulterers, people who skip out on their girlfriends, or shady business deals. When a young woman comes to you, teary eyed, and tells you her story, you...

4. Make a race an important element of your story.

5. You are a bull rider, and riding is the only thing you've ever loved. When your legs are shattered in a serious accident, your career is over, and...

6. Write a story about a farmer bringing in their harvest.

7. The thick foliage and intertwined vines made the hike nearly impossible.

8. When your father is transferred west to open a bank in a newly settled area, it's a much rougher life than you had in the big, bustling city.

9. It was the best sandcastle he had ever seen.

10. Set your story on a film or TV set, starting with someone calling “Cut!”

11. Make a train station an important part of your story.

12. Trash covered the landscape like sprinkles do a birthday cake.

13. Set your story in a countryside house that’s filled with shadows.

14. The teenage boy was accused of breaking his arm simply to get out of the test.

15. Set your story at a farmer's market that is struggling to remain relevant this autumn.

16. Poison ivy grew through the fence they said was impenetrable.

17. Start your story with the arrival of a new person in a town full of gossips.

18. Set your story in a small town where everyone is suspicious of newcomers.

19. He figured a few sticks of dynamite were easier than a fishing pole to catch fish.

20. Set your story in a desert town.

21. Despite what your teacher may have told you, there is a wrong way to wield a lasso.

22. Write about a casual act of bravery.

23. Your character is a rancher surrounded by farmland. They need help.

24. Write a story about a group of sisters, or a group of brothers.

25. You're a criminal lawyer who is defending the biggest criminal in the world. The criminal is...

26. Write a Western-inspired story in a new genre or setting (e.g. a space western, fantasy western, etc.)

27. Learning a new trade...

28. Write a story about a stranger coming to town and shaking up the order of things.

29. Knowledge is power, but power and having money is more powerful.

30. Never underestimate the willingness of the greedy to throw you under the bus.

31. The cliché of: One day you meet a beautiful/handsome stranger...

32. Set your story in a town full of cowards.

33. Write a story about a character who’s secretly nobility.

34. You've lost faith in humanity...or have you?

35. Your character has to move to Russia.

36. Write about someone who realizes they're on the wrong path.

37. It's a family picnic and you forgot to...

38. Your character goes to their favorite spot (what spot?) every week, but when they visit this time, there's...

39. Some things are better left unsaid.

40. Set your story in a society where everyone is constantly aware of unwanted surveillance.

41. Romeo and Juliet, The West Side Story... Tragic. Create your own.

42. Write about someone whose luck is running out.

43. Dancing and singing in the rain.

44. Set your story in a town disconnected from the rest of the world.

45. Bravo! You've accomplished nothing this week and you're late with your...

46. The things we cannot change.

47. Your character runs an inn for resting mountaineers. It’s a calm life, until they encounter a twist of fate.

48. Write about a State or Country you like. Highlights, culture, etc.

49. Mother nature can be a wicked witch of the west sometimes. What kind of problem did she create for you?

50. The snow is falling. You're stuck somewhere. It's unpleasant. What's next?

Fantasy & Fairy Tale Prompts ▶︎

1. You have a magic wand. What do you do with it?

2. You find a map, saying "X marks the spot", and you decide to see where it leads. Write about your adventure.

3. Set your story in a magical bookshop.

4. Write about an animal who goes on a journey.

5. Once a hero amongst your people, you are now relegated to live the rest of your days as an exile.

6. Write a story involving a friendship between two different species.

7. Monsters are real! Create your own.

8. Set your story in a place that’s frozen in time — literally or metaphorically.

9. Write about a secluded stream with lots of wildlife.

10. Write about a character whose dreams are portals to other worlds.

11. After your great-great grandfather rejects a powerful witch's love, she places a curse on your entire family.

12. The cause of the dinosaur mass extinction is a present-day scientific mystery.

13. Write a story about someone who has been tasked to keep a flame burning, surrounded by total darkness.

14. Write a story about a summer afternoon spent in a tree-house.

15. Nobody has encountered an explosive daisy and lived to tell the tale.

16. I'm the last person standing on Earth, and...

17. She was too short to see over the fence.

18. Write a story about a monster trying to become more human.

19. Seeking respite from the horrors of war, a soldier arrives for a long visit on his uncle's ranch. Nothing is as it seems. There are funky things happening in the shed but it sounds fun!

20. Write about an author famous for their fairy tale retelling.

21. Write about someone who keeps an unusual animal as a pet.

22. He barked orders at his daughters but they just stared back with amusement.

23. Write about a dragon who doesn’t know what to do with their hoard anymore.

24. Written warnings in instruction manuals are worthless since rabbits can't read.

25. Your pet dragon transforms into a person.

26. Although it wasn't a pot of gold, Nancy was still enthralled at what she found at the end of the rainbow.

27. Write a story about a warrior who doesn’t want to kill the dragon.

28. While all her friends were positive that Mary had a sixth sense, she knew she actually had a seventh sense.

29. Write a story involving a magical potion — which may or may not work.

30. You come into possession of a ring that can change the weather to whatever you decide.

31. Write about a mischievous pixie.

32. Write a story told from the point of view of an animal.

33. Fluffy pink unicorns are a popular status symbol among macho men.

34. Write about a prince or princess who is asked to give up something valuable as part of a deal to escape the world they come from.

35. By way of a lottery system, the king chooses you to be his queen or vice versa.

36. Start your story with someone witnessing magic from a hiding place.

37. The tooth-fairy's first day on the job.

38. You check out a book from the library and discover that it’s telling the story of your life. Do you decide to read ahead?

39. Write a story where something magical happens when it starts to rain.

40. What happens when you begin working at the same yogurt shop as your crush?

41. Your main character has been wrestling for years over how to tell their lifelong best friend that they are actually imaginary. Usually, they reveal the truth when the person is 12 years old. They disappear and the child has no memory of them. It’s now 12 years past the “due date” and each day the prospect of telling them and disappearing is getting harder and harder.

42. Write a fairy tale about someone who can communicate with woodland creatures.

43. A dragon wants to be loved and befriended, but every time he farts, fire erupts from his rear end.

44. What if the frog you kiss turns you into something?

45. Describe a trip to the zoo with your class.

46. Write about two people whose dreams are somehow connected.

47. Bruce the German Shepherd loves to run through the woods with his human. When he and his human get separated from one another, Bruce has to learn from his forest friends how to get back home.

48. What if the princess slayed the dragon and is sitting there waiting for you?

49. Imagine what it would be like to live in a world where instead of taking the school bus, you ride a dragon to classes!

50. The new kid at school wants to be your friend, but you’re very shy.

Under The Sea Prompts ▶︎

1. One morning, you wake up and you can't believe that...

2. Write about someone who’s lived on a tropical island their whole life and is leaving it for the very first time.

3. You're a wannabe Pirate who encounters real Pirates. Arrrghhh!

4. Write a story about a long journey by sea.

5. Tortuga? Tortuga! But remember you cannot stay there.

6. Begin your story with a protagonist taking shelter under a bridge during a thunderstorm. An animal scurries past which shouldn’t exist. Against their better judgment, they decide to follow it out.

7. Write a story about buried treasure.

8. You're an underwater explorer.

9. Write a story about someone looking for a sign in a dark sky.

10. As you're walking down the beach you spot...

11. Write a story that includes one character reading aloud to another.

12. Ichthyosaurs (cute name!) was a marine animal, now extinct. Or is it?

13. Write a story about a voyage.

14. You're staying at a beach resort. There, you see a ship loading ____ and you ____.

15. Write a short story about a secret.

16. Write about a pirate captain obsessed with finding a mythical treasure.

17. An underwater society decides to overtake the world.

18. Write about someone finding a treasure in an unexpected place.

19. You and your buddies go out fishing and you catch something unexpected.

20. Write a story where the power goes out on a submarine.

21. Caught in the middle of the ocean clinging to a broken raft for dear life, she is rescued by a handsome and charming sailor. They spend a few days getting to know each other. When the ship finally docks, she finds she was the only one alive the whole time. Only she can see the sailors. She desperately wants to be with the one who saved her but he can’t leave the ship.

22. Write about light returning to a place that has been deprived of it for a long time.

23. No one really believes in pirates.

24. In a small town by the sea, there's a shop that sells maps. Out of curiosity you go in and find...

25. Write about a god desperately trying to get their chosen hero to follow the path they set out for them.

26. You are snorkeling off the coast of Hawaii.

27. You always hated water. Never wanted to step foot on a ship because you don't know how to swim. As life does, it throws you exactly where you least want to be.

28. Set your story during a drought.

29. You're married to a person who is in fact a Pirate but you don't know that yet.

30. Write a story with a less than happy ending.

31. Write about the end of the world… of Atlantis.

32. Create your own Atlantis.

33. Write a fantasy story about water gods or spirits.

34. Start your story with someone emerging from the sea, and end it with them looking up at the stars.

35. The cruise ship is haunted.

36. You're at a Summer Camp near a lake.

37. Start your story with the flickering of a light.

38. The return address on the letter you received is from Atlantis!

39. Tell a story about the Emperor shrimp.

40. What is your encounter with a whale shark?

41. Set your story in a small house by the sea.

42. Write an article about a detective who realized he has the wrong suspect.

43. Write a children's story with sea animals.

44. The coelacanth is a prehistoric sea creature still alive and it has been around for over 360 million years. Say what? Tell its tale as a grandfather or grandmother would.

45. Imagine you get to meet Jules Verne.

46. First time in a submarine.

47. Write a story based on the following quote: "We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones." ~ Jules Verne

48. You go scuba diving for the first time.

49. Create your own adventure at sea!

50. A small town has a local urban legend about a siren that lives in the lake on the edge of the city. She is blamed for many old deaths in years past but hasn’t killed in a while. A young man sets out to learn the truth once and for all.

Travel Marvel Prompts ▶︎

1. Set your story on a sailboat, large or small, and entirely at the mercy of the winds.

2. Write a story told exclusively through dialogue.

3. Italy is my favorite country; in fact, I plan to spend two weeks there next year.

4. Write a story where someone insists on giving your main character a ride to the airport, only for their car to break down.

5. Coffee is illegal and you have to single-handedly smuggle it into the country.

6. Write about two solo travelers who keep bumping into each other in the most unexpected of places.

7. Go back in time to the era of your choosing and describe how you live.

8. Describe what it’s like to sit in rush hour traffic in one of the busiest cities in the world.

9. Set your story in a lighthouse surrounded by powerful gale-force winds.

10. A three day visit to Budapest becomes a maritime adventure down the Danube River to the Black Sea.

11. Set your story in the woods or on a campground.

12. Your character wants to travel across the land. No forms of transportation have been invented yet.

13. Set your entire story in a car.

14. Start your story with someone trying to read a map.

15. Moments after taking off for a flight, the entire plane begins to shake dramatically. The pilot comes on the speaker and says, “This is very bad.”

16. Pick a country you'd like to visit and use it as your setting.

17. ‘The worst meal I’ve ever tasted.’ Imagine a zero-star TripAdvisor restaurant review: capture the customer’s evening out that compelled them to complain.

18. New Zealand is a beautiful country with much history. Find a spot there and let the story flow from you.

19. A trip to Antarctica!

20. Paris, Eiffel Tower, the country side! You want to explore it all quickly.

21. Write a story in which a certain food makes your character travel back in time.

22. To reach your destination you have to travel by car, plane, and a ...

23. Explain outdoor living to a person with an apartment in the city.

24. The rich and the famous live here but it's not Hollywood.

25. Your character is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. The story takes place during a long-haul flight, with an open return-date. What happens?

26. You visit an old castle in...

27. Set your story in an airport, as someone rushes for a flight.

28. Scotland is calling your name, but their houses aren't to your liking.

29. A godforsaken town in Oklahoma and you're stuck there!

30. Write a story where your character is traveling a road that has no end.

31. "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crown-less again shall be king." J. R. R. Tolkien

32. Suitcase in hand, you head to the station.

33. Write a story based on the following quote: "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." ~ George A. Moore

34. You arrive at a destination you promised an old friend you’d visit after they passed, only to find them there too.

35. Your plans get mixed up and you end up at a completely different destination.

36. The future looks quite different when you want to travel and have ??? money in your pocket.

37. Your friend invents a time-traveling machine and invites you to enter it. Which year do you travel to?

38. The fear of losing a tire when turning right and hitting the curb. I guess you better curb your enthusiasm.

39. You're on an adventure unlike any other. Hello, Amazon! (NO! Not the website! The Amazon rainforest. Tsk. Dummy.)

40. Write a story about two or more characters who don't speak each other's language (literally or metaphorically), but still find a way to communicate.

41. You're at a ____ and you see ____. Now you have no choice but to intervene. However you don't speak (which?) language.

42. What if you could travel anywhere by the flip of a switch?

43. We are on our way to Venice! Italy! And you've lost all your documentation.

44. Write about a character driving in the rain.

45. Every year on your birthday you've made the same wish but it's never granted. Until you turn 40. And you realize that home isn't always where the heart is.

46. While traveling through Europe, you decide to make a stop at the one place that knows to party. Munich, Germany, and it is Oktoberfest!

47. Travel to anywhere in the world! But mind your companions.

48. She comes thundering into the clearing atop a glorious white stallion. He puts down his sandwich as his jaw drops in awe. He slowly walks over to reassure his little cob pony.

49. You have a choice between the superpowers of invisibility, flight, and teleportation. Which do you choose? Why?

50. A young woman is drawn to an attractive man on the subway. Acting on a whim, she gets off at his stop and follows him to his destination

Stolen Artifacts Prompts ▶︎

1. Write about a character going to great lengths to return an unwanted gift.

2. Write a story about a valuable object that goes missing.

3. A package arrives at your character’s house, but they didn’t order anything. Write about what happens next.

4. Write about someone rediscovering something old they thought they’d lost.

5. You’re in the middle of a bank robbery – hiding in the bathroom.

6. She tilted her head back and let whip cream stream into her mouth while taking a bath.

7. Set your story at an antique roadshow.

8. In the nineteenth century, there’s a thriving trade in stolen archeological artifacts. Write a story from the perspective of an annoyed, minimum-wage employee whose job is traveling back in time to obtain otherwise unobtainable artifacts, then has to bring them back to the present (the 1800s, that is) and artificially age them before they will sell.

9. A treasure hunter finds a tomb buried beneath the dirt.

10. A mysterious letter is delivered to your character's home. It's not addressed to them, but they can't resist peeking...

11. A lost locket.

12. The Rosetta Stone has disappeared!

13. Write a story where a regular household item becomes sentient.

14. Write about a gallery whose paintings come alive at night.

15. Your character is redecorating and takes down a painting. They notice something strange engraved on the back of the frame.

16. Write a story about someone finally gaining access into their family’s very old computer.

17. A man has always been drawn to an old portrait he found at a thrift shop. It hangs in his home, despite having no idea who the painting is of. By chance, he finds a descendant of the women in the painting and they develop a connection. This upsets the spirit of the woman in the portrait as she has been living in the painting and is quite fond of the man herself.

18. Write about a character who is trying to leave something behind — only to realize they carry it with them.

19. An antique collector acquires a particularly interesting piece – one of the oldest in his collection. The original owner, however, is still very attached the item despite being dead. She will not leave the man alone until he surrenders the item.

20. Go to: National Stolen Art File

, pick any item from its database and write a story about it. (Obviously it's fiction, right?

21. Begin your story with a librarian searching for something.

22. Write about an art thief who is struggling to commit the perfect heist.

23. Look around you and pick an inanimate object. Write a story from its perspective.

24. An amateur archeologist accidentally digs up an old grave. This stirs the spirit of the one buried there, and he is angry.

25. There's a store called Trash And Treasure (Sadly a real place!) and even with such a terrible name you decide to go in. As you marvel at the absurdity of the place, you see ...

26. Write a story about someone trying to paint (or otherwise create) a self-portrait.

27. Kids "lose" stuff all the time and take things "unintentionally".

28. A girl is selling all of her silver jewelry so she can safely be around and touch her werewolf boyfriend.

29. Start your story with someone buying a cursed — or perhaps blessed —mirror from an antiques store.

30. Write about a character who yearns for something they lost

31. Your character picks up a fallen leaf and can’t believe what they discover underneath it.

32. Write about someone who accidentally destroys a museum’s most valuable artifact.

33. Your favorite coffin has been stolen. What do you do?

34. It cannot be true, it cannot be true, I have accidentally lost all my love for you.

35. Write a story about a lost scarf.

36. Start your story with someone discovering a photograph that has something written on the back.

37. On a mantel in the library sits a boat inside a bottle. One night, as you watch in disbelief, the ship looks as if it had hit some turbulent waters and is swaying dangerously back and forth. The wind howls and you strain to watch the boat try to squeeze through the bottle neck, but instead it disappears completely.

38. Someone’s beloved collection is destroyed. How do they react?

39. Goodness gracious! The town you live in has disappeared off the map!

40. Start your story with a character accepting a bribe.

41. You found a book of spells and you read one out loud - the one that retrieves lost/forgotten items.

42. Coming up with a gift idea was the easy part — getting your hands on it is another thing entirely.

43. Write a story about an old family secret surfacing generations later.

44. You're in a jewelry story. There's a couple close by looking at rings. They look suspicious but they leave with everything in tact. When you come home, you realize that your most valuable item you wore around your neck is missing.

45. Write about someone who thinks they just got a great deal on something, only for them to realize…

46. Oh, no! Your precious jewels are gone.

47. Write a story about an object that has been around for centuries or passed down generations.

48. When you were born, you had powers, but someone bound them. Who did it and what were your powers? Do you get them back?

49. It's winter time and all your winter socks are missing! Who's the rascal that took them?

50. Start your story with someone finding an object labeled with their name.

Space Adventures Prompts ▶︎

1. Every year, one person is sent to the moon. This year, though you hid in terror, it is your turn to enter the rocket.

2. Write a story about a brilliant scientist making a startling discovery.

3. A visit to the alien marketplace.

4. Every day, you get one hour to revisit any moment from your life. What do you pick?

5. Set your story on a planet with no water.

6. Gravity no longer exists.

7. Write a story where a device goes haywire.

8. Technology becomes illegal.

9. Write a story set in a world with a dying sun, or where light is a scarce resource.

10. What if the universe as we know it is actually someone’s imagination?

11. In this world, the leaves on trees change color every fall based on the changing mood of the people.

12. Describe your perfect utopian world.

13. The year is 2200. What does the world look like?

14. Set your story in a world where time travel has been perfected, and people can use it to hop between alternate timelines — but at a cost.

15. You've won the lottery and are now a proud winner of a ticket to space.

16. It is so far into the future that intelligent robots have been the only form of “life” for centuries. Humans have been forgotten. Until one day, one robot stumbles upon ancient evidence of human life. He goes digging and finds more. He gathers all the information he can and eventually “creates” the first human in hundreds of years.

17. In this world, everyone is born knowing how old they will be when they die.

18. You answer the doorbell to find someone from a different universe. They say that you are their favorite book character and they want to change the ending to your story.

19. You’re allergic to oxygen.

20. Write a story involving a portal into a parallel universe.

21. A dedicated astronaut dies on board his ship. In his will, he requested to be “buried in space.” They fulfill his wish and blast him into space. Years later, an alien colony picks him up and revives him. His only goal is to return to earth and ...

22. Set your story in a nameless world.

23. Write a story about a team tunneling down into the center of a planet.

24. You accidentally invent a machine that can take you to wherever you wish but you're not sure if it can bring you back.

25. You’re walking down the street, when you spot a familiar figure. It’s another you. And they’ve come from an alternate reality to warn you about something.

26. Late at night you're watching the stars. It's a clear sky. All of a sudden you hear a scream! Someone is falling. You search and discover that the man in the moon is on his way down to earth.

27. Your character accidentally traps themselves in an alternate universe that hasn’t discovered electricity or technology yet.

28. On a simple walk in the woods you hear a noise and go to investigate. There, in the middle of nowhere is something that looks like an opening to another world.

29. You and your friends are playing football in the front yard and tossing the ball back and forth. Next thing you know, Jimmy gets hit hard and spontaneously combusts! Or did he?!

30. Set your story after aliens have officially arrived on Earth.

31. The world has developed a genetic system that engineers everyone for a specific job in the community. Your character hates what they were created to do. This never happens.

32. Your main character is in love with another human but afraid to admit it because it is not socially acceptable.

33. You find a magical portal in your bedroom one day. Do you step into it? What happens?

34. A shy, introverted tech guy develops a virus that can control human desires, impulses, and choices.

35. Set your story at the boundary between two realms.

36. Your character is dating a person not of this world.

37. Ancient Gods

38. Write a guidebook for someone from outer space who is visiting your neighborhood for the first time.

39. Write your own space adventure!

40. Your team reaches the end of space.

41. The ship you've been on reaches a black hole and it gets sucked into it. What's on the other side?

42. A small spaceship crash lands in your backyard with nothing inside but an instruction manual on how to rebuild the aircraft. Do you take it back into space?

43. Set your story on a day when the sun never sets.

44. You watch an asteroid destroy the moon.

45. 500 years from now humans inhabited a new planet. They send out a signal into space which reaches earth in the past.

46. Write a story about a scientist.

47. You are born on a new planet where life is strenuous, but you keep having flashbacks of a life lived somewhere else.

48. Set your story beyond our own world.

49. Your character is the first person to land on the moon.

50. A space mission gone wrong.

Giovanni's ▶︎

1. If you opened a restaurant, what kind of restaurant would you open?

2. Start your story with someone looking at a restaurant menu.

3. Craft a 30-second pitch for yourself to a stranger in a coffee shop. How would you describe yourself in that 30 seconds?

4. You order a large cupcake-looking piggy bank for your shop but when it arrives it's full of money.

5. Your favorite chef asks you to join them on a culinary tour of the world.

6. You sip your coffee at your favorite hole-in-the-wall café across from a crumbling and congested elevated highway. It's nearly midnight, but you don't want to go home.

7. You're sitting at a restaurant about to enjoy your meal but...

8. Start your story with someone uttering a very strange sentence.

9. There's, what appears to be a homeless person, sitting adjacent to you in a restaurant.

10. Set your story in the lowest rated restaurant in town.

11. You move into a rundown town and try to improve it.

12. Your main character has never had a real job before.

13. A bartender serves last call to the only remaining patron who is the Devil himself.

14. Write a story where someone shares a cup of hot chocolate with a friend.

15. Write about two people who run rival bakeries, but fall in love during their town’s annual holiday festival.

16. You've miscalculated, missed a turn, and now you're stuck in front of a creepy gas station with nothing else around it.

17. A huge storm has stopped traffic. Your character is stuck in the car with someone for an unknown amount of time. The person chooses this moment to confess their undying love. The feeling is not mutual.

18. Write about a character who’s attending a dinner thrown in their honor, but deeply embarrasses themself during their speech.

19. Three friends are out on the town for a night. Write about the most ridiculous series of events you can think of.

20. Describe the menu to a customer who simply can't make up their mind.

21. Write a story in which a character eats something that they shouldn’t have eaten.

22. According to a Czechoslovakian proverb, “Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts.”

23. Dinner for two.

24. A bus full of kids pulls up in front of your restaurant/store.

25. Include in your story a scene about a family's last meal before a significant change.

26. The world’s greatest detective finally meets his match: A criminal so stupid and so careless that the detective can’t ever predict what he is going to do next.

27. Your main character is a renowned medium and as such, is familiar with ghosts and spirits. There is one special ghost that has kept coming back over the years, acting as sort of a guardian angel.

28. Set your story in a roadside diner.

29. The girl/boy you've been staring at all school year walks into your workplace.

30. Imagine that you have made it to the final round of interviews for a new job. What kind of job is it?

31. Most people walk through life without having a set goal. Not you! You intend to ...

32. You made a new discovery. You're thrilled to show it off, but it's a bad decision.

33. Your character never wakes up feeling rested, no matter how long they sleep for. Medication doesn’t help. They decide to film themselves one night. The next morning they watch as they get out of bed around midnight, smirk at the camera, and wave before disappearing out the door for hours.

34. Mr. Simmons has always been a nice guy. He's in his sixties right now, but the town is an uproar over ____ and you discover that _____.

35. Your main character works in a bookstore. A man comes in once a week, reads a book, and leaves. The manager asks her to tell the man he can’t do that anymore without buying anything. But...

36. Start your story with someone looking out the window and seeing the first snowfall of the season.

37. You've been burning bridges with people left and right. Now you're in a bind and have no one to turn to.

38. A young woman is at the bank when a robbery ensues. She is surprised when the masked robbers retreat as soon as they see her.

39. According to an old Greek proverb, “All things good to know are difficult to learn.”

40. It's summer! Kids are off school and you decide to open your, what you call a personal zoo, to the public.

41. Your character is passed over for a promotion. They grow bitter that the company decided to hire from outside rather than promote from within. They begin their quest to take this new person down – not at all expecting to fall for them instead.

42. The lady behind the counter keeps looking at you and smiles whenever she catches your eye.

43. Start your story with a character quitting their job or getting fired.

44. A new position opens up and you decide to apply for it. When you go for your interview ...

45. Your character works at a store where there's more going on than meets the eye.

46. A humble, lowly used bookstore owner is visited by an arrogant and pious official. Some false accusations have been made. Eventually, the prideful officer relents and begins to help the store owner clear her name.

47. A man gives his number to a woman at a party. She promises to call but never does. Weeks later they run into each other at the grocery store.

48. When paying for their groceries, your main character mentions to the clerk that there is a mess in aisle 11. The clerk is confused and explains that there is no aisle 11.

49. Your character works at a pizza joint and creates the most delicious pizzas. The boss gets jealous.

50. Your character goes to their usual coffee shop and orders “the usual.” The Barista smiles, nods, and slides something entirely different across the counter. She has never made a mistake before.

New Orleans ▶︎

1. You and your ghost best friend are an infamous crime-solving team.

2. A city where paranormal is rather normal.

3. Write a story where someone’s paranoia is justified.

4. You find a Polaroid camera that seems to predict the future. It takes some time but it predicts what will happen in that same spot a year after the picture is taken.

5. Set your story in an oracle or a fortune teller’s parlor.

6. You start realizing that at least one aspect of every dream you have comes true the next day.

7. Write a story where ghosts and the living coexist.

8. Start your story with a blast of lightning casting a graveyard in a flash of brief, white light.

9. You were the oldest person still living in the town and you remembered things no one else did.

10. You are on your deathbed and a man shows up, offering you a choice of second life.

11. Write a story about a magician who never reveals their secrets — until now.

12. You work for the CIA who send you undercover in the FBI, who send you undercover in M16, who send you undercover in the CIA, who are very confused that you are back after only two weeks.

13. About six years ago, he was turned into a vampire by his best friend. This is the story of everything that happened since.

14. It is hard for an aspiring witch when the black cat you have loved for 10 years suddenly dies. While burying him out in the garden, a spirit approaches you, informing you that he has been trapped within the cat for the entire decade.

15. Ever since childhood, a dark figure no one else can see has been following you around, whispering in your ear. Today you see it lying a few feet away, screaming and asking you to run.

16. Your main character has a secret superpower; the gossip they spread always comes true.

17. Write a short dark comedy in which a long-unsolved mystery is finally cracked.

18. Write a short story about a vampire hunter on a mission to kill the last remaining vampire in the world.

19. Raised in an orphanage, you know nothing of your magical heritage.

20. Write a story about someone who is haunted. Whether by a ghost or something else is up to you.

21. When the moon turns blood red and the cries of wolves can be heard echoing throughout the land, a young man/woman must

22. Looking through old family photos, multiple generations back, you notice there is a cat in almost every group photo. The same cat – color, pattern, one docked ear – that is currently purring on your lap.

23. Write about a group of witches meeting up on Halloween night.

24. Surely the new landlord didn't mean to lock you up inside a house with no windows.

25. Write a story about someone trying to raise the dead.

26. What appears to be a ghost approaches your car while you’re waiting at a stoplight.

27. Write about a character who uses a night where everyone’s in costume as cover for something sinister.

28. You're a billionaire. The world is a disaster. You decide to buy a large piece of land and build a new town for a community, but the spot you picked ...

29. Start your story with the words “Everything was ready for the ritual.”

30. Authorities are searching for a serial grave robber.

31. Make a character perform a ceremony to set something or someone free.

32. Your next door neighbor is cute, sexy, but there's some weird stuff going on at their house at night. You decide to investigate.

33. You stumble across a website that contains clues to some very disturbing crimes.

34. A vampire and a werewolf walk into a bar.

35. You encounter a real life Baba Yaga. (No, it's not John Wick, sorry!)

36. A stranger who keeps yelling out about the end of the world to the passersby gets struck by lightning in front of your eyes.

37. Your character's not a witch, not a vampire, not a demon, but something completely new.

38. Write a story from a ghost’s point of view.

39. A giant wolf roams the street of a small town at night.

40. You think it curious when you see a Leprechaun looking man running down the street, but when you get closer, you find gold coins on the ground. You decide to follow its path.

41. Your main character becomes possessed with an angry spirit. The twist? The spirit is in love with her and demands they live the rest of their lives like this.

42. Start your story during a full moon night.

43. Write about two characters who have each promised their firstborn children to separate witches. They end up falling in love with each other and having a child together.

44. Start your story with an unusual sound being heard.

45. A walk down the Red Light District.

46. A fortune teller falls in love with their client who has their palm read every month.

47. Write a story that includes the line “I think someone’s listening/watching.”

48. Local gravestones begin disappearing.

49. Incorporate a Voodoo doll into your story.

50. A murder has happened on your last day of vacation.

Mirror Mirror ▶︎

1. "Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the ________ of them all?"

2. Write a story that involves a reflection in a mirror.

3. Write about a character who keeps ending up in the same place.

4. 20 years after your daughter was abducted, a detective finds you to reopen the case. The detective turns out to be your daughter.

5. The reason no one has ever seen the real Santa Claus is because everyone who sees him dies. You just saw him

6. What happens when you sneeze?

7. Start your story with a student discovering a hidden room in a university library.

8. Write a story that involves a secret or magic ingredient.

9. A masked stranger appears at your front door with a knife.

10. Set your story in a world devoid of logic, where feelings govern all decision-making.

11. Set your story in a town that’s teetering on the edge of something dark.

12. A chilling voice appears in your head. It won’t go away. One day, it tells you that you have to run.

13. Begin a scene with a non-visual sense. Describe a specific sound, smell, taste, etc to capture your setting, then expand the story out from there.

14. While watching the evening news, the anchor looks directly at the camera and begins screaming before the camera cuts to black.

15. Write about a character who wakes up in their past life, or as a future reincarnation of themself.

16. Write a time-travel story where a character from the present finds themselves in the 80s or 90s.

17. Write a story about someone who finds a secret passageway in their house.

18. Write a story about a character who is experiencing glitches in their reality.

19. Write a short story with an unreliable narrator that readers can never quite trust.

20. Start your story with an ending and work backward toward the beginning.

21. Greatest fear comes true.

22. Set your story in an unfiltered world, where people are always honest about how they feel.

23. Looking into a mirror she suddenly hears a voice calling her name wistfully. Is the object possessed, or is it something else?

24. Write a story titled ‘The Locked Door.’

25. You wake up to discover a completely different, unknown face staring back at you from the mirror.

26. All clocks suddenly stop. Write about what happens next.

27. Write a story about a character who one day notices that their reflection has taken on a life of its own.

28. One day at work, you look across the street to see a hooded figure in a black coat pointing directly at you.

29. A mysterious benefactor will pay $100,000 to anyone willing to stay in a haunted house overnight.

30. Your character makes a living faking psychic powers. One morning, they wake up with real ones.

31. You find strange, muddy footprints leading up to your front door.

32. Set your story in a creepy mansion — except nothing horrifying takes place in it.

33. Gemini's (No offense to Gemini's!

) are known to have two personalities. Bring it!

34. Set your story in a labyrinth that holds a secret.

35. Set your story in a house of mirrors and make the atmosphere increasingly eerie.

36. Write a story where the characters start to realize that they are, in fact, just characters.

37. You're clocking out of your night shift at the hospital. Once you do you see a chart with your name on it.

38. Set your story in a deep, dark wood.

39. Write a story where the readers are in on a secret that the characters are unaware of.

40. Set your story in a world where contacting the dead is as easy as making a phone call.

41. The phone won't stop ringing, but it's not plugged into the wall.

42. A message in a bottle dated 3024.

43. Write a story about someone making a deal with the devil.

44. Begin your story with a character having a gut feeling they cannot explain.

45. Write about a character who leads a secret double life outside of their day job.

46. Write a story about a character who finds guidance in an unlikely place.

47. Write about a character who always wears a mask.

48. Set your story in a world where everyone’s decisions are made for them. One morning, your character wakes up, and chooses not to go to work. Wait…chooses?!

49. One day, the sun rose in the west and set in the east.

50. You are given three wishes, but there's a catch: one of them won't come true for the rest of your life, and you don't get to pick which one it is. What do you wish for?

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