WRITING PROMPTS FOR EVERY GENRE

Science Fiction

· You the last person on earth

· You see and flying saucer

· Back to the Future, but with vampires

· You travel back in time to before your birth and meet your parents

· Allen cats invade the planets only to decide to become talking house pets, "they laugh at us, as we scoop their litter boxes"

· Pick any random abject and write a story about what an archaeologist in the distant future would think of it

· Time travel works, but only once in a person's life. Write from the perspective of someone who chooses to go back in time, knowing they can never return. Where do they go and why?

· A highschooler from fifteen hundred years in our future is assigned a one-page writing project on a twenty-first century person's life based entirely on TV commercials.

· So yeah, ancient Egypt really was "all that" after all, and the pyramids turn out to be fully functional spaceships (the limestone was to preserve the electronics hidden inside). Write from the perspective of the tourist who accidentally turns one on.

· Ten years from now, scientists figure out how to stop human aging and extend life indefinitely—but every time someone qualifies for that boost, someone else has to die to keep the surplus population in check. Oh, it's all very humane; one's descendants get a huge paycheck. Write from the perspective of someone who just got a letter in the mail saying they're the one who has to die.

· Steampunk! Write a story from the perspective of a hot air balloon operator who caters to folks who like a little thrill... which means she spends half her time in the air shooting down pterodactyls before the paying customers get TOO scared.

· In the nineteenth century, there's a thriving trade in stolen archaeological artifacts. Write a story from the perspective of an annoyed, minimum-wage employee whose job is traveling back in time to obtain otherwise unobtainable artifacts, then has to bring them back to the present (the 1800s, that is) and artificially age them before they will sell.

· It turns out dinosaurs were completely sentient creatures, thank you very much, and most of them actually left the planet in their gigantic and REALLY WEIRD spaceship when they realized an asteroid was coming. They've decided that enough time has passed and the Earth has probably recovered by now, so today, at twelve noon, they're coming home.

· You have a favorite teacher at your school who goes above and beyond to help students learn. He is famous for his strange classroom experiments which all the students love, however, one days he takes it too far and you learn that he is an thousand year old immortal alchemist.

· In the distant future all plants have evolved to be intelligent and powerful creatures, thus making the remaining handful of vegetarians left on earth complete bad asses.

· Ten years ago the government banner all forms of sugar, due to its negative health effects. Now powered sugar is the new street drug of choice and one bottle of soda goes for a small fortune on the black market.