Teachers Adventure Writing Prompts

Write a poem from the point of view of someone who has travelled around the world.

Consider how this character's experience may affect their tone, voice, and expression.

“It had been a long time coming, but now I felt I could truly call myself the slayer of monsters.”

Write a story that concludes with this line.

Lost and alone on a winter hike, your character comes across this house. What happens when they knock on the door?

An arrogant and rude boy has to spend the day with his kind, elderly neighbour.

Be descriptive with your characters and behaviour, and try to highlight their differences. Is there anything they can learn from each other?

Visiting a potentially habitable new planet, an astronaut finds something that they don't want to share with Earth.

Create a plot based on your immediate thoughts when you consider what is going on in this image.

Your main character is sent to live with an eccentric relative who lives a peculiar life. They must adapt to the new situation.

Write a humorous story that includes this piece of speech.Think about the obstacles that could be in your character's way, and how the relative feels about the situation.

A creature that has lived in a dark cave for its whole life experiences light for the first time.

Write a heavily descriptive piece about this experience.

Write a diary entry from the villain of a story.

Wherever the villain comes from, be they cliché or misunderstood, give your reader an insight into their life.

‘It had been fifteen years since the sun had last risen.’

Write a short story that begins with this line. Is it real or metaphorical?

Write the blurb to your first fantasy novel.

A blurb should intrigue the reader; introducing the main characters, and describing the plot, without giving too much away.

Write a short excerpt from the memoir of a fictious famous person.