High School Crime Writing Prompts

In an alternative future where nobody eats meat, your protagonist has been secretly running a small farm.

Create a story around this character and their scenario.

Write a series of diary entries from the point of view of someone hiding, evading capture.

They can be hiding for whatever reason you like, but think about why they are writing in a diary and who they might hope will find it.

Your neighbour has put up some halloween decorations, but you're worried about how realistic the skeletons are...

A reclusive writer is disturbed in the middle of the night by a stranger looking for help. They invite them into their home.

Does this stranger provide inspiration, danger, friendship, or something else entirely?

Your protagonist is hosting a party in the middle of the desert. Who are they and why are they here?

Write a passage that includes an anagram of an important word.

An anagram is a scrambled version of a word that contains the same letters. For example, an anagram of "Astronomer" could be "Moon Starer".

'When I was young, people always told me I would be a heartbreaker. I don’t think this is what they meant.'

Write a story with this as the opening line.

You wake up with a sketchbook next to you, coordinates scrawled onto its ivory pages... and this is not your house.

Continue the story...

Create a story that ends with character saying “I’m not a traitor. I was never on your side.”

“Your crown is made of the people’s bones and hunger.”

Use this dialogue to set the scene for a short story.

“I knew all along that this was how it would end.”

Write a 500-word scene that ends with a character saying this line.

Your protagonist lives in this camoflauged fortress. Tell their story.