Unique Creative Writing Prompts for Writers

Grow your next story from these unique creative writing prompts. Use them to practice writing or to inspire an entire novel. From sci-fi to horror to locations and characters, there are different prompts for every taste.

So, here are 50 unique creative writing prompts for you to check out:

Creative Writing Prompts

1. Write a story where you are the antagonist.
2. Write a story that takes place in the year you were born.
3. Expand upon a dream you vividly remember.
4. Write a story that takes place virtually.
5. What is your biggest fear? Write a story about it.
6. The world is expanding and no one knows why.
7. Humans have become allergic to each other.
8. Write a story that takes place solely in a hotel.
9. A character discovers they’re not human.
10. Two enemies must come together to save both of their lives.
11. Write a story that takes place over a single day.
12. A character finds themselves unable to interact with anyone or anything.
13. Write a story that begins as a comedy but turns into horror.
14. A character discovers her neighbor has been hiding a terrible secret.
15. Water suddenly becomes toxic to all humans.
16. The sun doesn’t rise.
17. A character finds that every fortune cookie fortune comes true.
18. A friendship is tested when strange letters begin to appear.
19. Write a story about a princess’s transformation into a villain.
20. A captain finds his ship in the middle of a never-ending storm.

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• To honor her sister, a character must destroy a precious artifact.
• Write a story about a character who recently died and their journey to the afterlife.
• A character learns someone tried to poison them.
• A second sun appears in the sky.
• Write a story based in a world where virtual reality has overtaken society.
• A character accepts a deadly bet.
• Write a story where memories are able to be stolen.
• An astronaut befriends an alien.
• A pilot has been commanded to fly to a place he realizes doesn’t exist.
• Write a story where violent, unrelenting storms force humans underground.
• A researcher’s discovery changes everything.
• An entire town vanishes without a trace and no one remembers but you.
• Due to overpopulation, everyone under 30 gets sent to live on a new planet.
• A character finds out their partner has created a clone of them.
• Write a story where a character must convince everyone that they’ve died.
• Write a story that takes place in your hometown.
• A character is on the run for a crime they didn’t commit and must find a way to prove their innocence.
• Every night, a character is awoken by a strange noise outside.

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• A housekeeper finds out one family isn’t who they say they are.
• Write a story where the character slowly becomes obsessed with a mundane hobby.
• A judge becomes increasingly suspicious of their fiancé.
• A character finds a button that turns them temporarily invisible.
• To save his family, a character must solve a puzzle.
• A shipwrecked crew discovers something lurking in the waters around them.
• Write a story from the perspective of an imaginary friend.
• A countdown begins to play over the sky, and no one knows what it’s for.
• A dragon is uncovered from ice.
• Write a story that incorporates a movie you hate.
• A sculptor’s creation causes unforeseen consequences.
• A swamp turns out to be home to a previously thought-extinct species.

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