If you’re interested in becoming a fantasy writer, a great place to start would be to look at fantasy writing prompts. These will help you practice executing fantasy-driven stories before you tackle your own. You can keep them short or go for something longer. Either way, prompts can challenge you to write something creative and original. This blog will provide these types of prompts for precisely that purpose.
30 Fantasy Writing Prompts
1. You wake up from a nap and realize you’re floating three feet above the bed. You can’t get down…
2. After confessing to your best friend that you haven’t studied for the exam you’re about to take, she tells you to drink this potion. You aren’t so sure, but moments after you swallow it…
3. Doing some spring cleaning, you discover a black hole under the carpet…
4. At a concert, a pop singer discovers the lyrics to one of her songs are projected out into the audience like a live-action movie…
5. This morning at breakfast, you realize that your pancakes taste like the emotions of the person who made them…
6. A man who lives through an apocalyptic event thinks he’s the only one left on Earth until he discovers his long-lost twin brother. Or is it a clone?
7. A bear approaches you on a camping trip and asks for directions to the nearest picnic area…
8. After falling into the rapids, pulled underwater by the strength of the current, you suddenly discover that you can breathe underwater.
9. A god comes down from the sky and wants to give you a tour of the afterlife.
10. Demons exist and are open for hire if you’re willing to pay the price…
11. You are given the ability to freeze time, but only for an hour each day…
12. You walk in on your dog typing on your computer. He confesses he’s a famous and affluent writer under the pseudonym ‘Sparky Barkington’...
13. You are given the choice to design your dream reality, with one caveat: you can never leave…
14. Everyone over the age of thirty suddenly turns into toddlers…
15. You switch bodies with your pet lizard. Your only hope of switching back rests on your ability to break free from your tank…
16. The only way for you to stop vampires from taking over the world is to eat all of the powdered donuts in less than three months…
17. Dinosaurs return to Earth…
18. A wizard turns you into a statue for a week…
19. A writer can enter the stories they create…
20. You are cursed with a disgust for “normal” human food. The only thing that tastes good and provides nutrition is glass…
21. Studying for a history test, you find yourself sent back in time to Ancient Greece as a student of Socrates…
22. The Sphinx in Egypt comes to life. Humans aren’t yet sure what they want…
23. One day as you’re out chopping wood for a fire, a nearby tree pleads with you to stop. Other plants and trees begin to join in…
24. Your mother is very protective over a specific pair of shoes. Don’t touch, don’t wear, don’t even look at them. One night when she falls asleep, you put them on and soon discover why she’s been so protective all this time…
25. Flipping through the pages of your parents’ photo album, you discover something strange in the background. At first, you thought it was a smudge, but it has a distinct human shape. Now that you think of it, you’ve seen that exact shape hovering around the house a few times…
26. You are given the ability to turn back time, but each time you do, you forget someone important in your life…
27. Lost at sea in a wretched storm, your friend falls overboard. You try to save them, but the water is too dark. In the morning, after the storm has passed, a mermaid delivers your friend back to the ship…
28. An angel recruits you to help them find lost souls to save…
29. You can talk to the ghosts of dead musicians, but only when you play their songs…
30. You are fluent in every language and dialect, but you can only communicate through writing or music…
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