College Students Funny Writing Prompts

You board an aeroplane for a long-haul flight, and everything the person next to you does is annoying.

Your protagonist returns to regular life after being in hospital for months.

Think about what this character might struggle with, or how their perspectived and priorities might have changed.

You are on date, and your date has arranged to abseil down a building. You have a huge fear of heights, yet want to impress them.

Focus on your character's emotion and what completing the task could mean for them.

Your protagonist is a technophobe who is trying to navigate a situation that involves a lot of technology.

Follow any path you like for this story, but focus on the internal thoughts and external struggles of the character as they try to navigate something they dislike and don't understand.

It is the end of a very eventful school year and you have to give a speech at the prom.

Write a dramatic, exciting speech with interesting anecdotes. What can make this peice of writing stand out?

Your are a college student fawning over your professor during a lecture. Create a poem that is a series of doodles and unrequited phrases about your emotions.

Your character is scrolling through dating apps when they come across a profile that shocks and bemuses them.

This should intrigue your readers from the start. Why is the profile so interesting, and how do things progress?

Write a story where three characters who hate each other end up on holiday together.

You could focus on why this happened, or the situations that unfold because of it. Do the characters resolve their differences, or is the holiday terrible?

Your character is a hairdresser, who is faced with a difficult client.

Think about what different people may find difficult in a client, and try to create relatable, realistic situations with a dash of humour.

Your character is an artist who has always painted the same, unknown woman for decades. One day, she walks into their studio.

You could focus on the emotions of the artist when this happens, or try to account for how it would be possible.

Your character is explaining the meaning of their tattoo to someone they've just met...

How might this conversation go?

Your character is a new staff member in a profession that is often undervalued, and has just entered the break room on their first day.

Try to include some dialogue within this story, the emotions of the co-workers, and the character's own thoughts.