Story Ideas & Writing Prompts

Detective noir writing prompts: a detective who’s so obsessed with a key witness he fabricates serious threats against her well-being so…

Spy writing prompts: a spy who’s brainwashed into living a normal person’s life by her husband, or a fashion designer who sews recording…

Vampire romance writing prompts: a vampire who needs a medical attention and the puzzled doctor who treats them, a vampire gifted to a…

Dark romance writing prompts: the last fertile man on Earth who’s being passed around from one woman to another, a tattoo artist who keeps…

Historical romance writing prompts: a Viking widow roaming the sea searching her husband, two frenemies trying to survive on the frontiers…

Looking for short story starters to jumpstart your writing? Then, you’ve come to the right place! Here’s a list of story starters for middle-schoolers to high school students to NaNoWriMo warriors to any seasoned writers, from hearing your dog talking, to encountering a mythical creature, to witnessing the onset of a new virus that takes …

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Creative story ideas: Star Wars, but underwater. Dragons who live in outer space. A phlebotomist who turns out to be a vampire. A sushi…

Funny writing prompts for kids: A pirate who can’t swim. Or what if your pets could talk, what would they say about your eating habit? Or…

Urban fantasy writing prompts from nymphs and fairies who migrate to public parks due to deforestation, or dragons who nest inside of bank…

Werewolf story ideas from werewolves who can speak to dogs, to a werewolf and a vampire who are trying to hide their true identities from…