(Post by Finn, a middle school writer)
“The wonderful thing about writing is that there is always a blank page waiting.
The terrifying thing about writing is that there is always a blank page waiting.” ― J.K. Rowling.
Have you ever wished you could just have an amazing idea whenever you wanted? Well, you can't. Sorry. But that's why writing prompts exist! To help writers who just can't seem to think of anything to write. So, here are ten Sci-fi/Fantasy prompts to help you start writing again. Also, if you know someone who can have ideas on command, tell me. I want to figure out how they do it.
1. Spirit FM: A child accidentally tunes his radio to a station used by the spirits of the dead. what does he hear?
2. The Midnight Clock: Somewhere, a clock strikes midnight. But this is no ordinary clock. Where is this clock, and what makes it so strange?
3. Project Fallen Angel: A strange underground research facility has been accidentally unearthed by archeologists. The facility appears to be devoted to something called "Project Fallen Angel", and the equipment in the laboratories is very advanced.
4. Runic Warnings: People have been disappearing in the normally quiet British town of Coppersworth. When a detective goes there to investigate, he/she/they finds strange symbols at the site of each disappearance.
5. Sincerely, Jason: A man receives a letter from someone named Jason, who seems to know everything about him. Disturbed, the man throws the letter away. A month later, he gets another letter from Jason, but this time, Jason's letter is an S.O.S.
6. The Soul Storm: After a violent lightning storm swept through the small fishing town of Wheldrake, a lone traveller enters the town and soon notices the strange way the storm effected the minds of the townspeople.
7. Lighthouse 5: Scientists aboard a deep-space research frigate discover an abandoned space station that has the words "Lighthouse 5" painted on the side, and giant claw marks slashed through it. What could have made the claw marks, and where are the inhabitants of the abandoned station?
8. Temporal Glitches: A high school student finds an odd file on his/her/their computer labeled "Unstable Temporal Loop. Do NOT open". After opening the file, the high schooler is forced to relive the last day over again. And again. And again. How is he/she/they going to try to fix this problem?
9. The Firebird And The Serpent: A teenager reads an ancient myth about a guardian phoenix and an evil dragon. The next night, a red bird flies through the teenager's window; the bird is identical to the picture of the guardian phoenix from the myth.
10. The Temple: An ancient temple is discovered on a distant planet. A team of scientists enter the temple. They discover strange mechanical creatures that seem to be made of stone, and odd cables on the walls that appear to be transporting power from the planet's surface deeper into the temple. Are these part of the temple, or has someone else moved in?
I hope you enjoy using these writing prompts! Have fun writing!
Thanks for the prompt - I haven't even tried to write a story for years - just poetry - it was fun writing this beginning
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The maple at the corner was cracked the full length of its trunk – a jagged, weeping wound open to the heartwood. Roots curled up from the ground like arthritic fingers grasping for a too thin pencil. Forty feet away the green husks of walnuts hung singed and smoking on their branches. Along the pavement the metal shafts of the streetlamps emitted a low hum as if questioning their ability to flare for the coming evening. All around the grass lay flat – so flat that the feet of Anton Entwhistle left no mark as he made his solitary way into the Village of Wheldrake.
An hour earlier he had just crested Drake Hill, anxious to get off the rural walking path and to his waiting room at the Tipsy Vicar, Wheldrake’s inn and public house. But, there at the crest, he saw a cloud slowly turning counter clockwise over the village. He stood watching it draw to itself every other passing cloud. He watched it grow, yet not in size. It grew only in darkness: pale gray to ash to charcoal, to black.
Still and silent he debated with himself whether to brave a quick run into town. He had just braced his left foot back to launch himself downhill when brilliant veins of light broke and branched across the surface of the cloud. His body instinctively convulsed to the ground when a single massive bolt of lightning struck at the entrance to the village.
We love this story start! Please keep writing it!
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