Fiction+writing+prompts

SHORT STORY PROMPTS: Use any of the ideas below to start a short story!! You can continue your story or start a new one.

Try to develop good **characters**... - What is this person like? - What does this character look like? - How can you show this characters personality?

Plan your **plot..** **-** Setting? - Rising action? - Conflict? - Resolution?

STORY STARTER PROMPTS: Choose a “first line” and begin the story! 1. "Get that thing away from me!" the girl yelled. 2. "That will show them," I thought as I hammered the last nail into place. 3. Everyone had a partner but me. What was I supposed to do now? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. For the most part, Grandpa was a nice man who liked best of all to… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Goats, sheep and chickens belong on the farm, not in the middle of... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. "Get out of there as fast as you can!", I yelled to my brother as... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Have you ever noticed that some days seem much longer than others? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. He didn't look like a genius, he looked more like... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. He was afraid, but he called upon all his courage as... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Her eyes were glazed with a fever, making her... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. I had always wanted a puppy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. I looked around the room. Nothing seemed unusual, but then… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. I never expected that one day I'd open my closet and find... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. It was three times as large as me, but I was going to try anyway. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15. I never thought I could do it, but… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. If this was the truth, then the truth was wrong because... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">17. If time could stand still or even go backwards, I would… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">18. It was a weird thing, hairy and smelly and limp, but I loved it because... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19. It was Christmas morning, but I was not anxious to... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20. My dog jumped up and started barking... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21. It was my best friend's deepest secret and it would be a hard one to keep... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">22. What would you do if your best friend said... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">23. I knew it was going to be an unusual day when my mom came into my bedroom and said... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">24. It was quiet.... too quiet. That could only mean that... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25. It's hard to know what a computer will do when you plug it in during a thunderstorm.... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">26. It's lost! What could I do now that… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">27. Late one night the neighbor knocked on the front door and asked.... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">28. I looked up at the stars, and I thought I saw ... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">29. She was a funny old lady, but I knew she had come to tell me... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">30. I knew if I didn't get nervous, I could make the shot. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">31. She was peering through the window, counting the cars that went by, wondering... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">32. Everytime my favorite TV show comes on my mom always says, ... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">33. Something brushed against me and my surprise turned to horror as I saw... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">34. The boy appeared at the door of the cabin, looking ... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">35. The castle stood at the top of the hill, close enough to see that in a high window stood... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">36. The communicator lay silent in his hand and he realized he had lost contact with... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">37. This was not home! The grass was orange and in the sky we saw... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">38. The horse pawed restlessly at the ground, a beast eagerly waiting for... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">39. The spaceship was out of control and only one person could save us.... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40. The waves crashed across the sand and I knew.... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">41. The wind whipped around the corner, moaning and warning me that... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">42. There is nothing better than… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">43. They were in the grocery store, in the freezer section, when it happened. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">44. This was it. The moment I had dreaded for two weeks. The moment when.... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">45. Three seconds left on the scoreboard clock -- only three seconds before.... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">46. Today is the day I turn myself into a new person, a person whom... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">47. Today was the day! I finally was going to … <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">48. We watched in horror as our friend turned the corner and bumped right into… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">49. What was I supposed to do? I knew what my friend had done was wrong, but… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">50. "Where did everyone go?" I shouted, but there was no answer.