Fantasy Writing Prompts

Everyone needs a good story prompt now and then. It sparks our imagination and is a springboard to fresh new story ideas.

Fantasy Story Starters: Monsters & Creatures

Prompt 1: A monster is terrified of the child who sleeps above its bed.

Prompt 2: Your character receives a mysterious Amazon package with an empty cage inside and a black egg.

Prompt 3: As a child, your character was lost in the mountains and was raised by a dragon. Years later, your character is found by townspeople and brought back to their parents. But your character no longer fits in with regular kids and misses their dragon mother and siblings.

Fantasy Story Starters: Magic

Prompt 1: A new library has opened up in your character’s town in which you can borrow magical abilities.

Prompt 2: Your character discovers a magic window in the school’s bathroom.

Prompt 3: Your character finds a magical notebook in an abandoned cabin. Everything your character writes in the notebook comes true.