Our 150 Best Short Story Ideas, Plot Ideas, and Creative Writing Prompts Ready to get writing? Here are our 100 best short story ideas to kickstart your writing. Enjoy! 10 Best General Short Story Ideas Our first batch of plot ideas are for any kind of story, whether a spy thriller or...
Update: We now have over 100 short story ideas on this list. These are all bona fide story prompts that you can turn into full short stories. These are not just writing exercises to get your brain doodling. If you write one of these ideas, you have a very good chance of being publish...
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Each short story prompt leaves enough room for the student to write an entire story if they desire. Those more ambitious writers could opt to combine several prompts and create a longer story or even craft a short book. Table of Contents 30 Short Story Ideas for Kids 5 Bonus Short Story W...
If you love writing stories full of magic and fantastical worlds, we've got twenty fantasy short story ideas to inspire your next adventure!
A Short Story Science Fiction Prompt In the closet of your new home is a portal through space and time. You accidentally travel to Mars.Science Fiction Respond to this prompt Feel inspired? Share your story below.Similar stories Get your creative juices flowing with these similar writing prompt...
A writing prompt is like kindling for your short story. They’re generally brief, at just a sentence or two, and describe scenarios writers flesh out into full-fledged stories. Run a web search for “writing prompts” and you’ll find a ton. You can even tailor your search to a ...
#JusJoJan prompt the 25th –“Specs” (FICTION) (Thanks to Judy Hendrickson, awesome newsletter subscriber, for the idea for the story. This is Part 3 of the story. Part 1 ishere, Part 2 ishere, Part 3 ishere.) On the way back to Lavender’s cabin, Grant the horse explained to ...
Many thanks for your and Lynda’s prompt reply. The critique is going to give me plenty to think about, and plenty of rewriting, but that's normal. I will edit the story paragraph by paragraph with the critique in my other hand. Please give Lynda my grateful thanks for a thorough and...
Prompt - write a fantasy short story of about 200 words Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there lived a mischievous fairy named Tilly. Tilly had a knack for causing trouble, and the other fairies in the forest would often scold her for her antics. ...