Writing Prompts Generator

The last dragon in the kingdom applies for a job as a village baker. Tell the story of its first week.

A griffin chick decides that a confused schoolteacher is its mother.

A unicorn has lost its horn and is too embarrassed to go back to the herd.

A troll who guards a bridge decides to charge travelers in compliments instead of gold.

A tiny kingdom of mice is getting ready for its first royal wedding.

A mermaid opens a small repair shop for fishing boats.

A tree in the royal garden blooms once every hundred years, and this year its flowers are glowing.

The river that runs through town begins flowing uphill. Who notices first, and what do they do?

A blacksmith discovers that every sword she forges can speak, but only in riddles. Write about the day one of them refuses to be sold.

Every child in a mountain town receives a map on their twelfth birthday. Yours is completely blank.

A wizard loses his memory and must relearn magic from the spellbook he wrote as a teenager.

In a city where shadows can wander off on their own, a girl's shadow comes home with someone else's.

Write about a librarian who guards a library where the books rearrange themselves at midnight.

A knight is sent to rescue a prince from a tower, only to find that the prince has built a cozy life there and does not want to leave.

A young mapmaker realizes that the forest on her maps grows a little bigger each night.

A small fox spirit makes a deal with a lonely farmer. Write about what each of them gives and what each of them gets.

A potion seller accidentally swaps two labels. Write about the customer who goes home with the wrong bottle.

You inherit a key from a great-aunt you never met, along with a note: "Do not open the green door on a Tuesday."

Write about a market that only appears in the fog, where people trade memories instead of coins.

A stone giant wakes up after a thousand years and finds a village built on its back.

A girl can understand what the wind says, and today it is warning her about something.

Write about an enchanted lighthouse that guides lost travelers home, but only those who ask politely.

Two rival wizards are forced to share a tiny cottage during a winter storm.

The kingdom's crown has a strange curse: whoever wears it can only speak in rhymes.

In a valley where it always rains, a girl wakes to find the sun shining only over her house.

Describe a city built inside the hollow trunk of a single enormous tree.

An apprentice is told never to let the kettle boil after dark. Tonight, she forgets.

A painter discovers that anything she paints with her grandmother's brush becomes real for one hour.

A dragon guards a hoard of buttons instead of gold. Explain why each one is precious.

Magic in your world runs on music. Describe what happens when the kingdom's only composer goes silent.