Here is the cincher to your writing list: 50 more chances to challenge yourself and your writing skills.
51. Your MC (main character) falls asleep on the subway and wakes up to find themselves in a parallel universe.
52. A natural disaster sweeps through a town. Describe the events following.
53. Your MC sits down to the most exquisite meal of their lifetime; what is it?
54. Create a plague that wreaks havoc on a tiny community.
55. Go back into your childhood and write about your most vivid memory.
56. Pick one of your friends and describe their life 20 years from now.
57. Put your MC in a career you’ve always dreamed of having but have never tried.
58. Your MC has an unhealthy obsession with an odd object, person, or place.
59. You have the opportunity to permanently change one aspect of either your personality or appearance, but what you choose doesn’t have the effect you thought it would.
60. Your MC is an animal whose owner is lost in the woods. It’s their job to find them.
61. You’re in a country where you don’t speak the language and a child comes bounding up to you, panicked, asking for help, but you can’t understand them. What do you do?
62. Imagine you’re addicted to a drug and you have to quit. What’s your withdrawal like?
63. Who’s out in your neighborhood at three in the morning? Describe sounds, animals, smells, and people.
64. If you had to live each and every day in the outdoors, what would be different?
65. Write a love story about two people who have a different sexual orientation than you.
66. A woman who is absolutely beautiful is in a terrible accident and her face becomes scarred and distorted. Chronicle the changes she encounters in the following weeks.
67. Place yourself in the most comforting atmosphere you can think of.
68. You’ve been at sea on a ship by yourself for two weeks now. How did you get there?
69. Place yourself 200 years in the past.
70. There’s a hole in the ground and you jump in. Where does it take you?
71. A stranger comes up to you and tells you he’s your real father. How do you react?
72. A tiger walks through your front door and makes himself nice and cozy on your couch.
73. Reimagine your life with all of the important people in it replaced by your favorite TV show characters.
74. You and another person survive a plane crash, but you’re stranded on an island. You discover that the other person fits the stereotype you least associate yourself with. What are they like?
75. Think of a record you’d like to break and describe what it would take to achieve it.
76. You can only wear one outfit for the rest of your life, what does it look like?
77. You’re transported back in time to the historical rights movement you think is the most important.
78. Write a journal entry about a man who just got drafted into the NBA.
79. You get into the middle of a big crowd and start to yell. What are you yelling about?
80. Create your own village where all of the inhabitants worship a very controversial (compared to modern day) God.
81. Imagine yourself in the most humiliating situation possible.
82. You grew up in another country; what do you think of America?
83. What happens to you as you fall into a black hole in space? Make up a new theory.
84. Lurking underneath your bed is a creature that’s never before seen the light of day. What kind of interaction do you have with it the first time you see it?
85. Two children stumble into a house that’s haunted. Write the backstory for the home and the ghosts that inhabit it.
86. Your grandma on her deathbed leans over to you and whispers a family secret that changes your life, and passes away soon after. What is that secret?
87. At 16, your MC is the youngest person at the University they’re attending, but by far the smartest. Write about them trying to fit in to the college atmosphere.
88. Your MC is a woman in a bar being stalked by another woman who clearly has malicious intentions. Write from her perspective as she tries to figure out the other character’s motives.
89. Your MC is traveling down the Amazon River and looks down to see that their boat is slowly being filled with the body of an anaconda. How does your character react?
90. A man is waiting tables at a restaurant when, all of a sudden, a missile strikes the main dining area. He survives, but what the man doesn’t know is that the missile was aiming for him.
91. You’re a ruler of an ancient civilization. Describe where it is, the people that inhabit it, and your daily duties.
92. Your MC walks out of their apartment building and does a face plant on the sidewalk. From then on, their day just gets worse.
93. Describe the perfect boss.
94. If humans were to evolve to have one extra sense, what would that sense be?
95. A man and a woman are waiting on the side of a dirt road for someone. Three people pass them by and each teaches them a lesson. Who are the people and what are the lessons?
96. Describe from a child’s perspective what it’s like to be incredibly wealthy.
97. You own a farm and your animals have been slowly taken from your farm each night. Who is taking them and where are they going?
98. You have lost all but one sense and must direct yourself through a densely populated city with no aid. What challenges do you face?
99. Your main character has fallen head over heels in love despite the fact that their love interest will soon be incarcerated. How did they fall in love and how will their love change as the love interest serves their sentence?
100. You wake up to find yourself in a mental hospital with no recollection of how you got there.
Great list on both posts! I found a few that could easily fit into my book. Love the whole blog in general.
Wow! Thanks! Appealing to the imagination of the many writers was definitely the goal for these posts! You’ll have to share what you write if you use any of the prompts. We’d love to read it