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Best Fantasy Writing Prompts

Join our ongoing contests and win up to $1,500. Flex those creative muscles with these writing prompts.

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This week's contest:
Win $250

Everyday Enchantment with Lynn D. Jung

66 contest entries /
27 stories

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Start your story with someone witnessing magic from a hiding place.

– 50 stories

Write a story involving a magical potion — which may or may not work.

– 58 stories

Set your story inside a character’s mind, literally.

– 57 stories

Set your story in a world where the currency isn’t money — or at least not money as we understand it.

– 60 stories

Set your story in an oracle or a fortune teller’s parlor.

– 65 stories

Write about a character who wakes up in their past life, or as a future reincarnation of themself.

– 53 stories

Your character makes a living faking psychic powers. One morning, they wake up with real ones.

– 63 stories

Write a story that involves a magic window — or a window like no other.

– 153 stories

Write about a prince or princess who is asked to give up something valuable as part of a deal to escape the world they come from.

– 189 stories

Write a fantasy story about water gods or spirits.

– 225 stories

Start your story with someone emerging from the sea, and end it with them looking up at the stars.

– 273 stories

Write about a character who’s had their future foretold from birth — but isn’t sure if they believe it.

– 152 stories

One day, the sun rose in the west and set in the east.

– 71 stories

Write a story about someone who finds a magical portal in their home.

– 236 stories

Before bed, you put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time. When you wake up, you realize you've gone forward a lot more than one hour.

– 81 stories

Write a story that includes characters who are aware they are a work of fiction.

– 73 stories

Write about two people in a relationship. One of them has special powers, the other does not.

– 77 stories

Write about a person who meets with the ghost of an old friend for tea every so often.

– 111 stories

Write about someone who works an average job — but incorporate elements of magic into it.

– 75 stories

Write a story in which the lines between awake and dreaming are blurred.

– 123 stories

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