Writing Prompts for a Creative Mind

Here’s a fun little break from my usual content: a list of writing prompts for you! Everyone loves imagining or writing short stories from time to time, but sometimes our imaginations need help to get started. Writing prompts are a good way to do this, and there are tons out there. Here are a few if you’re interested. If you would like to share your stories from these prompts with me, you can either comment below or tag on social media! I would love to read them. Have fun and let the ink flow! (recommended teen+)

1.  A huge storm swept through your home and left your house in pieces. While looking for your pet, you find a mysterious object peeking out of the wall. Soon, you don’t have to worry about getting insurance money, but you do have to worry about a certain person who wants this object more than you could imagine.
2. The main character of your story lives in a society where everyone is given the exact same amount of the same types of food, drink, and medicine no matter what. Cancer is curable, heart disease is non-existent, and all people with mutations are exterminated. The main character gets into a chemical accident that causes a mutation never seen by world elders before. But they don’t want to exterminate you; what they want to do is much worse. 
3. You get framed for creating the explosion that killed your family on a holiday. When you come out of prison five years later, your goal is to actually commit murder… against the person who took the people you love. 
4. You watch a major world shift in governing practices happen before you. You’re the last person alive who saw the ways of the old world when global governments decide to preserve your body and mind in case they need information in the distant future. Seventy-five years later, a malfunction in the preservation tech causes you to be rebooted, and you are angry. 
5. After a devastating civil war in your home country, all government is eliminated and structure is completely gone. It’s everyone for themselves. However, this is actually going better than the country ever was under government rule. That is, until a lonely surviving dictator wants to have it all for them and will do anything to get it. You lead the resistance against this person, but quickly realize you are ill-prepared. How do you fix this and maintain citizen’s freedoms? 
6. Your character has had a very bad experience in romance lately, so they decide to stop trying. A few weeks later, they meet someone who claims to be able to fix that dismay. Your character thinks this means they will get set up with someone, but this person has something different in mind. 
7. Finally, after years of searching, your character has found their family heirloom after the disappearance of their parents. When a business partner sees the heirloom on the coffee table at a company party, your character is thrown into some ugly events and unexpected acquaintances.

Until next time, keep thinking outside the box, and keep reading in between!