Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Sci-Fi Prompts #1

Hi-tech gadgetry, aliens, and steampunk!

If Sci-Fi is the genre for you, try these prompts!

( creative-writing-prompts.com - Creative Writing Prompts for Sci-Fi & Fantasy Lovers )

The year is 1623. A visitor comes to a small, tribal village in Nigeria. The visitor is wearing blue jeans, a Janis Joplin t-shirt, and a baseball cap and is carrying a pack that contains a solar-powered laptop computer.

A con man who convinces people they’ve been abducted by aliens and takes their money… is abducted by aliens.

A traveler picks up a souvenir, a strange and colorful rock with one side that is completely flat. As she goes about her travels, she realizes that when she has the rock with her, she can understand any language that people are speaking, but she can only speak her own native language.

A sixteen-year-old who is growing up on a farm is out in a storm, gets hit by lightning, and survives. After that, the kid can hear the thoughts of animals.

A man who sees ghosts checks himself into a mental institute, not realizing that the facility has been closed for almost thirty years.

( 30 Sci Fi Writing Prompts -  Justin McLachlan )


A young lawyer graduates into a world where, for the first time, brain scans can accurately detect lies. 

Mass hysteria hits 1950s New York after a report of a Martian spotted atop the Empire State Building.

Faced with a new ice age, Earth’s major civilizations have moved into Arcologies—massive, city-sized buildings that stretch high into the sky and hold millions of people.

A woman and her boyfriend are out for a night on the town, only to discover they’re trapped in a pocket universe where everything is the opposite of what it should be.

Source Links:

http://www.writingforward.com/writing-prompts/creative-writing-prompts/creative-writing-prompts-for-sci-fi-fantasy-lovers

http://www.justinmclachlan.com/684/sci-fi-writing-prompts/

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