Supernatural and Sci-Fi Writing Prompts
Week of December 1st – 8th, 2013.
- Write a creative nonfiction story about the first time you met your invisible childhood friend. Didn’t have an invisible childhood friend? Write a fictional account or write about someone else who did have one.
- Yellow and blue make green so that must mean that in an alternate reality red and blue make…
- While at WonderCon in Anaheim, California, you see a man, dressed as Jessica Alba’s character Sue Storm (The Invisible Woman) from the move Fantastic Four running full speed towards a brick wall yelling, “But I’m invisible!” in a high-pitched squeaky voice…What happens next?
- Seven of Nine was late, again. She was always late. As the door opened, she walked out of her cortical node from recharging and…
- An intergalactic detective and his dog communicate telepathically while trying to stop the criminals from taking over cyber pet food industry.
- A teenager looking through his telescope discovers a new comet – but this time it is even bigger than Comet ISON and it doesn’t miss the sun, oh no! What happens next?
- Pick a random location on a star map (or pick a planet in the Milky Way Galaxy or the Andromeda Galaxy) and write about it. Imagine what life is like on this other planet or star.
- William Shatner (or Gene Roddenberry) is more important than Carl Sagan because…
- A Klingon, A Vulcan and a Human walk onto the bridge of the USS Enterprise when Captain Kirk says, “Beam me up, Scotty“…
- A love triangle between an alien, a scientist and a human changes the world, as we know it…
- Turn on the local weather forecast and imagine the current conditions taken to supernatural extreme. Write a short story or poem about it.
- Go to Google News. Pick the worst or the most shocking news headline available. Read the article to become familiar with the issue(s) presented. Rewrite the bad news (or shocking headline) from a positive perspective and make it quite fantastical…
- While on vacation in Edinburgh, Scotland, you decide to take a tour of the mansion previously owned by children’s author J.K. Rowling in Merchiston. While on the tour, you open a closet door in the front foyer and magically you are transported to the village of Hogsmeade from her Harry Potter novels! Write a story about your adventure.
- Include the following word-terms in a story: the duck test; a rubber duck; a skein of yarn; a flock of geese; quackery. But include characters from the television series, the Fringe.
- You wake up one morning to find you can only walk sideways, like a crab.
- You are invited to appear as a guest on the Montel Williams Show – You suspect it has something to do with your recently acquired abilities to forecast the future like his psychic guru Sylvia Browne…
- In the cosmetic research labs at L’Oreal Paris in Aulnay, France, scientists and chemists formulate the perfect formula to finally…
- Write a love poem from the perspective of a space pirate ship captain writing to the woman he loves back on earth.
- Inside No Frills grocery store, you watch people mysteriously disappear into a freezer that contains Captain High Liner Frozen Fish Sticks…
- A streetcar full of people vanishes right before your eyes on a crowded downtown street in Toronto.
- You work at an online tabloid magazine. One morning when you check your email, you find you have received a very strange email from an anonymous source with a short video attached. The video is of a prominent, local politician consumed by a plume of smoke while discussing earth’s imminent takeover by an alien invasion…
- After you miss answering a call on your cell phone, you see that you have received a voice mail message. When you play it back, you hear a very agitated, eerie and disembodied voice mixed in with white noise yelling out the 80’s billboard slogan (created by artist Keith Harring), “Crack is whack!” repeatedly…
- A couple takes a helicopter ride to a remote island in the south pacific for a romantic dinner but end up being trapped on the island in the midst of an oncoming supernatural Typhoon…
- A teenager discovers a virus lurking on a computer in a high school that could destroy the Internet, as we know it!
- “Happy New Year!” he (or she) screamed. “2022 is going to be a great year… with your help, of course!”
- In Vulcan, Alberta, a hostile stranger with pointy ears stops you on main street demanding directions to the nearest spaceship-landing zone?! What do you do or say to them?
~Sara
Barrie Writers' Club 