Writing Prompts Generator

A postcard arrives from a place you have never visited, signed with your own name.

An old photograph shows your house with a window that is not there today.

Write about a detective who solves cases using only her sense of smell.

A ship's crew wakes to find one of them has vanished, but their cup of tea is still warm.

The answer to the mystery is hidden in a crossword in the local newspaper.

A train pulls into the station with every passenger asleep. Write about the one who wakes up first.

Write a mystery in which the detective realizes halfway through that she misplaced the key clue herself.

All the clocks in a mansion show different times. Only one is right, and it points to a secret.

Every night at midnight, the piano in the empty hall plays a single note.

You find a message in a bottle with directions to an island that is not on any map.

You discover a hidden staircase behind a waterfall.

A treasure map has been torn into four pieces, and you have only one of them.

A kite carries a small boy over his town for one magical afternoon.

Write about a group of kids who build a raft and follow the river to the sea.

The compass your grandfather left you does not point north. It points toward something else.

A lighthouse keeper's daughter rows out to rescue a stranded seal pup.

You and a friend must find your way home using only the stars.

Two friends set out to cross a desert on bicycles. Describe their first night under the stars.

A hot-air balloon drifts off course and lands in a valley nobody has explored.

A young sailor must guide the ship home after the captain falls ill.

Your small plane lands safely on a remote island, and the only other person there is a cheerful old scientist.

A girl and her horse must deliver an important message across three kingdoms.

Write about the first person to explore a newly discovered cave system.

A family road trip takes a wrong turn and ends up at a festival in a town that appears on no map.

A diver finds a sunken ship with a door that is still locked.

You win a ticket for a train that travels around the world in thirty days.

Write about crossing a rope bridge high above a jungle river.

A young explorer must find a rare flower that blooms only on the night of a full moon.

A group of friends discovers an old submarine in a boathouse. It still runs.

You must climb the tallest tree in the forest to work out where you are.