short story writing prompts

Fiction Writing Exercise – A Walk Through the Market

Objective: This exercise is designed to help you practice descriptive writing using the five senses and the “show, don’t tell”…

A guy runs into his old high school girlfriend. He realizes he still likes her, a lot, and wants to…

This could be a fun Halloween story for kids: -A sweet young maiden is stuck with taking care of creatures…

So, there’s this cranky old man or woman in the neighborhood. The house is creepy looking and all the kids…

This story idea came from our son, KK, who posted on Facebook that he wanted to go fishing at Sweeny…

You can title this Missing, Abducted or whatever you like. A teenager goes missing on the way home from school.…

This is a story starter. Simply take what’s here and finish the story. Remember, you can change the names…

If you’ve seen the movie As Good As it Gets with Jack Nicholson, then you already have an idea of…

Here’s a cute writing prompt you can have some fun with. It can be written as a children’s story or…

A photographer is out shooting pictures in a park one day–just random shots, not even trying to get the perfect…

A man collects junk and surrounds his house with ever expanding bands of junk. However, inside his house is another…