Adults Fantasy Writing Prompts

Your character works in an a mundane office environment, and their mind likes to wander during the workday.

You can be as creative as you like here; descriptively write about their daydreams, or keep to a story about the scenario itself.

From the perspective of a phobia or disease, create a narrative about how you are impacting someone’s life.

Think about how you can personify this particular disease or phobia, or its motives and behaviours.

Door shut tightly, might the monsters come.

Write a poem which ends with this line. You may wish to interpret the 'monsters’ metaphorically rather than literally.

Earth’s surface is uninhabitable and humans must live underground. However, travelling between different levels of the underground system is difficult.

Write about a character who needs to travel between levels.

Write a poem inspired by a tarot card.

Some of the characters of these cards include Death, Justice, Judgement, the Moon, the Magician, and many more. What can this character symbolise in your poem?

Write an advert for a product from a fictional world.

Try to use this product to build the fantasy world in a broader context.

Write a poem about a form of energy.

You may interpret ‘energy’ however you want, whether scientifically, magically, or metaphorically.

Describe what your house has turned into 500 years into the future.

Perhaps the building has remained intact and is used for a different purpose, or maybe it's become something unrecognisable. .

Write a story about a spirit or creature assigned to protect and look after a human, but they later grow to resent the one they vowed to protect.

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

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

Write a story about a person who suddenly gains the power of invisibility and must navigate the consequences.

A person realizes they have the ability to enter and control dreams.

Explore the consequences of this ability, both good and bad.