Writing Prompts Generator

A girl finds a radio that picks up broadcasts from a hundred years in the future.

A colony ship lands on a new planet and finds a welcome sign already waiting.

Scientists discover that whales have been sending signals into space for thousands of years. Then something answers.

An astronaut aboard a lonely research station starts receiving messages from her future self.

On a ship that has been traveling for generations, nobody alive has ever seen Earth. Write about the child who wants to.

A memory-sharing device lets you live through a friend's favorite day. What happens when you share the wrong memory by mistake?

Every phone, computer and screen in the world goes dark for one year. Write about the first week.

The class hamster has escaped, and there are tiny footprints in the flour.

Every morning, a fresh flower appears on the same park bench. Who is leaving them, and why?

A detective's parrot is the only witness to the crime.

Someone has swapped every garden gnome on the street for one that looks slightly different.

A lost dog comes home wearing a collar nobody recognizes.

A treasure hunt left by a retired teacher leads her former students all across town.

A detective's only clue is a single muddy footprint on the ceiling.

The town clock stops at exactly 3:17 every night. A curious teenager decides to find out why.

A painting in the local museum has been replaced with a perfect copy, except for one tiny detail.

Someone has been returning library books that were borrowed fifty years ago.

A letter arrives at your house addressed to someone who has not lived there for decades.

At a family reunion, a cake disappears from a locked room. Everyone has an alibi.

A detective who is afraid of the dark must solve a case during a city-wide blackout.

The new neighbor never seems to leave the house, yet their garden changes completely every night.

A rare coin vanishes during a school trip to the museum.

Every item in your school's lost-and-found box has the same initials.

A small-town baker notices that someone buys one loaf of bread every hour, on the hour.

The key to a locked diary is hidden somewhere in a grandmother's house, and each clue leads to the next.

Someone keeps quietly solving the town's problems and leaving a paper star behind each time.

During a power cut at a dinner party, a valuable necklace goes missing. Who had the chance to take it?

A young investigator discovers that the town map shows a street that does not exist.

A music box plays a tune nobody in the family recognizes. It turns out to be a code.

A visitor arrives in town claiming to be a long-lost cousin, but the family dog will not stop barking at him.