10 Prompts to Inspire
If you’re looking for inspiration, start here. This page is filled with 10 unique prompts that will help you beat even the toughest of writer’s block. Go ahead and read them and see what sparks some inspiration!
A blanket fort, childhood movies, and snacks. That’s what your protagonist planned with their partner, but when they arrive at the home 34 minutes late with backpack and a panicked look on their face, your protagonist knows their plans are about to change.
When the protagonist’s friend goes missing, they decide to go on a road trip and visit every item on their friend’s bucket list. In the process, they learn about love, dreams, loss, and the grief of losing someone you may never have known at all.
What was supposed to be a haunted castle tour turns into an adventure when the new volunteer tour guide and three visitors find a secret passage way and can’t return. The group must venture deep into the caverns beneath the historical wonder, and who knows what they’ll find down there.
When a newly married couple moves into a brand new home, the husband is shocked to find childhood photos of his wife in a box in the attic, playing in the yard. He and his wife found this house in a new area they both claimed to never have visited or lived in before, but someone may be hiding a history he’s ready to uncover.
A children’s science fair gets more than it bargained for when the child of a local mad genius signs up and becomes determined to take home the grand prize. What do they create?
In a rural village, an old woman puts on nightly shadow puppet shows for the town’s children. Her shadow puppets seem so lively and real, and the kids absolutely adore her for it. But when the kids start seeing shadows in their homes and when they’re alone, they realize that there might be more to her skill than it seems.
There’s a toy shop on the side of 7th avenue that your protagonist has never seen a single soul ever enter or exit. When they try to ask their friends and family about the toy shop, no one ever knows what they’re referring to, but it has an active website the front door is always propped open. When a last minute panicked birthday shopping trip leads your protagonist to enter the shop on a desperate whim, they are shocked at what they find inside.
Your protagonist and their two childhood best friends created their own language as children and swore never to teach another soul. It’s been three decades since, and your protagonist hardly thinks about those friends as they’ve moved on and all created their own lives. But when a new song on the radio includes a single verse in that secret language, everything changes for good, especially once your protagonist finally remembers enough of the language to realize what the verse says.
There is a signpost in front of your protagonist’s house where people tend to post community announcements and news. They find something up there one day that is completely different than any of the usual “lost cat” and “garage sale” signs they usually see. What is it?
A museum reopens with a new exhibit that boasts to be more interactive than anything visitors have ever seen. When your protagonist visits, they realize that the museum meant it, and the exhibits really do draw you in and never let you go. Your protagonist isn’t sure if they’ll ever be able to leave.