11/22/2023 PromptsNon-fiction
Did you have access to nature as a child? What impact did you believe it had on your character, personality, or livelihood? Many taboos restrict how people can communicate about topics like mental health or wealth. What would you talk about with your friend or family more freely if taboos didn't exist? Tell us about a childhood story, folktale, or legend and how it shaped you today. What are some bad habits, fears, or traumas you inherited from your family? How can you break those negative cycles? Are you familiar with your neighbors? Tell us a story about them. What are some privileges you are grateful for? What does equity mean to you? How can you make your community a safer for marginalized people in your day-to-day life? In what ways are gender inequalities still present or extinguished in our society? Disabilities are often unseen or unrecognized in people. Do you know anyone who is suffering in silence? Tell us about them and the struggles they face. Do you feel like you belong in your school, your community, or your country? Who or what makes you feel that way? How do big industries affect the environment and natural ecosystems? What protective measures need to be in place to keep them accountable? Do you feel comfortable sharing your past or your culture with others? Why or why not? What moments in your life have you lacked compassion or understanding? If you could go back how would you change? Are there certain feelings you struggle with expressing like shame, jealousy, happiness? How has it cause obstacles in your life or how have you overcome it? Is your friend group, job, or city diverse? How can you work to increase inclusivity or how has diversity affected your life? Humans can be incredibly detrimental to the environment. What measures have you taken, big or small, to decrease your environmental footprint? Fiction There's a magical world where everyone has some special power, except for your character. Write about the adventure they go on after they realize the stronger the power, the later the bloomer. Your character is a well-respected art historian. Write about the day they find a stolen, lost, or precious artwork in their own attic. Your character and their twin know every detail about each other from the way they walk to the way they talk. Write a story about when one twin starts to act noticeably strange. Your character goes to the same coffee shop everyday and ends up sitting next to the same person everyday. Write about the day the person suddenly stops showing up, and the adventure your character goes on to find out what happened. Your character has always felt like they are missing something in their life. Write about the day they suddenly remember a memory and realize their current life is not what it should be. Your character finds an ancient book in the library and they understand every single ancient character and word. Write about how they find out they are actually from the past. Your character has been artificially kept alive for hundreds of years because of a secret they know. Write about their struggle to reveal a secret they don't remember themselves. Your character had a death in a family as a result of overdose, but your character knows that is not true. Write about story where your character starts find eerie clues and messages from their dead family member. Your character suddenly hears someone else's thoughts of a planned murder or heist. Write about the adventure your character goes on to discover whose thoughts those are. The world has been extinguished of any plant or animal life as a result of mass industrialization. Write about your character when they find a secret cavern full of plants and animals. There's a futuristic world where everyone takes a regulating medicine to not feel any pain or emotion. Write about the day your character stops taking this medicine. Write about a day where the world is still the same, but there is no more gravity. Your character is going on trial for a crime they did not commit. They go to the library to study, and they find a book with their history already written and the result of their trial. Write about what they do with that information. Your character is pulled out of school by someone that claims to be their parent. Write a story about when they see someone who is definitely not their parent, but wholeheartedly argues that they are. Who does your character believe? Your character receives hundreds of thousands of love letters in the mail, probably by mistake. But when they open them, they find that all the letters are all written to them. Write a story about how they discover who wrote them and if they fall in love. Your character, a royal, runs away from their kingdom in the dead of night and accidentally ends up in enemy territory. Write a story about how an enemy royal protects and saves them. Your character finds a scavenger hunt. Write about when there is suddenly a dead end and the scavenger hunt extends into a magical world. Comments are closed.
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