Adults Dystopian Writing Prompts

Write a story that takes place somewhere without colours.

Whatever setting you decide for this, try to make it integral to your story.

Choose a major issue going on in the world today. Write a story that symbolises this idea on a personal level between two characters.

Consider how you will allude to the wider global issue while keeping your story intimate and relatable.

“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.

Write a story where the written word, in any form, is outlawed.

Rather than focusing on why text is outlawed, try to build a story that highlights one aspect of this world. Think about how often we see words written down, and how the world would look without them.

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.

You wake up after a nightmare and look in the bathroom mirror. Something is different about your appearance…

In a world where soulmates exist, yours lives in a different time period.

Will your character resign themselves to solitude, look for a way to travel through time, or love their soulmate through memoirs and stories?

In a post-apocalyptic world, the main character finally finds a civilisation.

Write a short story about a character who has just learned that they aren’t The Chosen One after believing that they were.

Walking to work one day, staring off into the clouds, the sky starts to fracture in front of your eyes...

Write a poem based on this scene.