Teens Dystopian Writing Prompts

Create a Sci-Fi narrative where two teenagers from feuding families fall in love.

How will you write this Shakespearean trope into a Sci-Fi world? What kind of place do these people live in to have families at war?

Compose a story using whatever comes to mind when you see this image.

Create a narrative set in a city with advanced technology but ancient cultural traditions that are strongly upheld.

An alien and a human discuss the concept of love.

Think about what love might mean to another species, and how they would discuss it or think about it differently from humans.

Write a story written in a world covered by darkness, where light is a rare resource.

A spaceship docks silently at an abandoned intergalactic outpost.

Focus on creating tension from the very start of the story. You do not have to resolve the plot.

Write a short dystopian story about a world trying to be perfect, but one person hasn’t been brainwashed like the rest.

Describe an alien species which has inhabited earth.

As well as describing their physical appearance, try to find interesting and unusual aspects of this species that you could include. Perhaps their movement, their language, their living habits; anything that can be described in high detail.

You’re walking down the sidewalk when you notice everyone around you has a collection of zippers holding their skin together...

Write a dialogue between friends occurring far in the future.

As well as vocabulary that might be invented in the future, think also about the communication styles and structures that might arise.

Your character wakes up in an unfamiliar room where everything seems to have been perfectly tailored to their wants and needs...

An AI begins to show signs of emotional distress. Its creator must figure out what's going wrong.