50 Writing Prompts

HAVE YOU EVER gotten a sudden burst of creativity and energy, and wanted to write, but have not been sure what to write about? In this article, you will find 50 writing prompts and story starters you can use in your next stories. Feel free to share your writing here on We Heart It!

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You are a princess. You have been locked inside a tower all your life. But on your 18th birthday, you manage to escape the tower, and soon finds out that nobody in the kingdom recognizes you. You decide to get revenge on those who locked you inside the tower.

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You are a telepath, and are getting migraines from the loudest internal screaming you have ever heard while on the bus.

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You wake up in a room filled with all your favorite fictional characters.

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Everyone has a red line attached to them that leads to their soulmate. For others, the lines are invisible, but for some reason, you can see them. And your leads up to the sky.

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You are a villain who is very bad at your job and constantly fails and trips when challenging the hero.

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_You are in an elevator with a bunch of other people. Suddenly, a man pushes the emergency button and turns around to say "so, I bet you are all wondering why I have gathered you here."

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You are a queen. You have just married the man you love. He is to become king -but just as the crown gets set on his head, the ancient statue beside your throne crumbles."

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You are a student and are sitting in the local coffee shop, reading and studying when a group of men approach you to ask you what their next mission is. Turns out, you look an awful lot like the city's greatest villain, and the men believe you are the villain - their leader. They will now do whatever you ask them to.

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You are looking in the mirror, fixing your hair and getting ready for a new day. Suddenly, your reflection starts laughing. You are standing completely still.

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You are sitting in class and decide to scream inside your head to catch mind readers. Your crush instantly flinches.

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You realize the fence around your orphanage is there to protect the public from you - not the other way around.

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There is a new boy in your class, but only you can see him.

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You trip in front of a puddle and fall straight through it to another dimension.

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You are possessed by a demon, but it is very bad at its job.

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You are a doctor and work in a hospital. One patient has just passed away. You stand outside their room, nervously planning how to break the news to their family, when a stranger dressed in black walks past you and tries to enter the room. You stop them, explaining how only family members are allowed to walk through the door. The stranger grows wide-eyed: "wait, you can see me?"

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Making people fear you is your favorite thing to do.

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It is 2:30 AM. You wake up to see that an emergency broadcast has been aired. The message simply states "run".

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You have picked up a new fantasy book at the library and has spent all night reading it. The next day, you walk into class only to find the main character of the book sitting on your desk, smiling widely.

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You have married the king only because you are trying to steal his crown and throne.

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You are from a noble family and have been promised to a prince, but you find yourself falling for his evil brother.

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Your son has imaginary friends. You are able to see them.

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You have spent months trying to tease and pick on someone you don't like. One day, they flirt with you, and you find yourself blushing intensely.

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You get a text message from your own number. It tells you to come down to the diner across the street. When you get there, the only person inside it is you - an older version of you, red-faced and panicking.

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Everyone was marked with the date they will die when they were born. You were supposed to die yesterday.

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You take a quick nap after a long day at work. When you wake up, there are dragons in the sky, and everybody else is acting like it is completely normal.

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You are writing an e-mail for your future self. While so, you receive an e-mail titled "dear past me".

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You are standing in a dark room. On the table in front of you stand bottles of different potions. A voice behind you asks you to choose your weapon carefully, for you will be fighting with it for the rest of your life.

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Everyone is assigned a guardian angel upon birth, which helps them make the right choices in life. But you have a demon on your shoulder instead.

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As you die, you travel down a bright tunnel and then everything turns to black. "Greetings, Prisoner 1123," a voice says. "You have served your sentence, and are now free to go.

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You own a coffee shop. None of your costumers know it, but you are a fairy - you can add shots of charisma to lattes to students who are on their way to hold a big presentation, a dash of love to the lonely woman who always sits in the corner's cappuccino, and sprinkles of kindness to the man who is always grumpy's espresso.

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In debate class, you get a little too mad. Somehow, you set a pile of books on fire with your mind. Chaos breaks out. Your teacher drags you out of class, panicking, rambling on about how she should have told you "the truth about your identity" years ago.

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It's summertime. You are swimming in the lake with your best friends. You dive into the water, but when you come back up for air, you feel the chill of winter. Snow is covering the ground. Your friends are nowhere to be seen.

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You are in an interrogation room. A man walks in and throws a bunch of photos on the table in front of you. The photos are old and were taken at different points in history, and you're in each one. He demands to know who you are.

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When people are born, they are assigned a soulmate. They have an original song in their head that only they and their soulmate know. One day, you hear your greatest enemy humming your song under their breath.

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You, the villain, has kidnapped the hero's sidekick only to find out that the hero has been treating them badly. You take the sidekick under your wing.

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You are cleaning your attic. It doesn't take long until you find a box of glass balls with names on them. Accidentally, you drop one, and as soon as it shatters, a person appears.

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As a child, you believed the moon was following you while you were sitting in the back seat of the car. As a teen, you laughed at the thought. As an adult, you find out that it was actually following you; you are the child of the moon.

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The girl in front of you is staring at you with a curious look on her face. "So, you're human?" she asks. "Like, 100% human? I have heard scary things about you guys."

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You have an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day. Today, you are given $800,000,000.

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When you sing, the rest of the world stands still.

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You own a magical piano. When you play the theme song of a movie or tv-show on it, it transports you into the fantasy world of the movie or tv-show. You decide to try it out, but once you enter it, you realize that you never learned the theme song to your own world.

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You are traveling to a new country. Upon arrival, you find out that everyone in the country knows who you are and your entire life story.

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You download an app on your phone. When you write the name of a person into it, it will give you the deepest secrets of the person.

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You have the ability to see everyone's age in years as a number above their head. The woman standing next to you has a four-digit number above her head.

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When people are born, they have a streak of hair the same color and texture as their soulmate's natural hair color. You were born with a blue streak that floats in the air, and no matter what you do, you can't get it to lay flat on your head.

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On their 18th birthday, everyone gets assigned a superpower. You are now able to fly, but you are terrified of heights.

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Your doorbell rings. Your favorite fictional character is standing outside your house. They want you to know that you are their favorite book character. They have read the story of your life, and want to change it.

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A clumsy ghost is haunting you.

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Someone messed up your reincarnation papers, and now, you have to start your life over with all the knowledge and memories you had when you died.

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You are the leader of a team of superheroes with different superpowers. They think you are the master of all powers, when you are, in reality, powerless with evil intentions.