What If? Writing Prompts: Holidays IV
December is here! Another year has come and gone, and with the holiday season about to shift into high gear, it’s a great time for some more “What If?” Writing Prompts! This week’s batch of prompts once again centers around the theme of the holidays. See what holiday stories you can write from these ideas! Enjoy!
What if… instead of giving presents, Christmas centered around a tradition of doing good deeds?
What if… your family only celebrated a made-up non-commercial holiday like Festivus in December?
What if… you received a mysterious Christmas present from a relative who had passed away?
What if… one Hanukkah, you and your family played a mystery game in which you’d get one new clue every night until someone won?
What if… every year, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, you had the power to make it January 1st of any year in history, but had to live that entire year until the following New Year’s Eve?
Good luck writing more stories about the holidays!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: Horror V
It’s the month of Halloween again, so here are some new “What If?” Writing Prompts for you to enjoy! This week’s set of prompts is centered around the genre of horror. What sorts of scary stories can you write from these ideas? Have fun!
What if… every time you had a dream about someone you know, that person died within 24 hours?
What if… you woke up with blood on your hands and no memory of how it got there?
What if… your dog started acting as though it wanted to eat you?
What if… you heard scratching against your bedroom door at night… even though you didn’t own a pet?
What if… the local haunted house attraction turned out to be filled with real monsters?
Good luck spinning some more tales of horror!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: History VII
This past week saw yet another anniversary of the September 11 attacks as well as the destruction left in the wake of a record-breaking hurricane sweeping the Atlantic, the second to hit the U.S. in less than two weeks. Remembering watching the news in school 16 years ago and wondering how much more devastating the effects of climate change can become have gotten me thinking a lot about the past and future of our world, so this week I was inspired to share another set of “What If?” Writing Prompts in the theme of history. What sorts of stories about historical events can you create from these ideas? Good luck!
What if… global political leaders had started working to address climate change decades sooner?
What if… the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, had never happened?
What if… America had never started the Iraq War?
What if… Europe hadn’t begun to form what would eventually become the European Union after World War II?
What if… the Founding Fathers had established America as a direct democracy instead of an electoral college?
Enjoy writing more stories about history!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: Mystery / Suspense V
Here’s a funny coincidence: I was recently looking through my archives of “What If?” Writing Prompts when I noticed that the last time I shared a set of mystery and suspense prompts was exactly a year ago tomorrow! So while I’m catching up on my blogging, I decided it would be fun to share a new batch of prompts in this genre, one year apart. See what mysterious stories you can create from these ideas, and feel free to add more of your own! Have fun!
What if… you discovered that your best friend was actually a spy for a hostile foreign power?
What if… you found strange messages in your private journals and notebooks that you don’t remember writing?
What if… you found alive and well a celebrity that the whole world thought was dead?
What if… an object in your house kept changing position even though you never touched it?
What if… a close friend or relative thought to have committed suicide left you a message in their will asking you to track down their killer?
Good luck writing some more mysterious and suspenseful stories!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: Fantasy / Science Fiction VII
So lately I’ve been playing around with Canva, and I’ve come up with a new image for my “What If?” Writing Prompts segment! To be honest, I’ve felt for a while that it was time for a change, so today I’m debuting this new “social media friendly” image with a fresh set of fantasy and science fiction prompts! See what new stories you can write based on these ideas, and feel free to add more of your own! Enjoy!
What if… in the future, wars were waged entirely by artificial intelligence with no human input?
What if… you died, only to wake up and discover you’d been living in a virtual reality all along?
What if… you switched bodies with an extraterrestrial and had to find a way to switch back before it could destroy your home?
What if… you spent so much time in virtual reality that you couldn’t tell the difference between the real world and the virtual world anymore?
What if… you brought home a mysterious rock you found… that turned out to be a dragon egg?
Good luck writing more stories in science fiction and fantasy!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: History VI
Yesterday was Independence Day in the US, so here’s a special set of “What If?” Writing Prompts to celebrate! This week’s batch features more prompts in the history genre, specifically American history! See what historical tales you can spin from these ideas, and feel free to add more of your own! Have fun!
What if… every state in the US were its own country?
What if… the “Wild West” hadn’t been settled in the 18th century?
What if… the stock market hadn’t crashed in 1929?
What if… the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had never happened?
What if… the US hadn’t undergone McCarthyism in the ’50s?
Good luck writing your own stories about American history!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: Nature VI
World Environment Day was on Monday, so here’s a new set of “What If?” Writing Prompts to acknowledge the date! This week’s batch features another collection of prompts about nature and environmentalism. See what stories you can create based on these ideas, and feel free to add more of your own! Have fun!
What if… every person in the world became a vegetarian?
What if… all non-renewable sources of energy on Earth suddenly disappeared?
What if… deforestation of the rainforests could be completely stopped?
What if… every nation in the world contributed to the effort to clean the oceans?
What if… humanity could halt global warming in time to reverse climate change?
Good luck spinning more stories about the environment!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: History V
After researching Memorial Day for my last two posts, I was inspired to write another set of “What If?” Writing Prompts. In keeping with the themes of war and the past, today’s batch features prompts in the history genre. See what historical tales you can create from these ideas, and feel free to add more of your own! Enjoy!
What if… none of the major conflicts of history had been resolved with war?
What if… the territories of the British Empire had been conquered by another nation instead?
What if… the American Civil War had never happened?
What if… the atomic bombs had never been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What if… the American Civil Rights Movement of the ’50s and ’60s had failed?
Good luck writing some more historical tales!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: Nature V
Earth Day is this Saturday, and that means it’s time for some new “What If?” Writing Prompts! This week’s post features yet another batch of prompts in the theme of nature and environmentalism. See what stories you can spin from these ideas, and feel free to add more of your own! Enjoy!
What if… there were only one way to save the environment from total destruction… and it came at the price of half the global human population?
What if… human beings were the only animals in the world?
What if… all the trees in the world disappeared?
What if… every food source on the planet became sustainable?
What if… all major sources of carbon emission on Earth suddenly stopped?
Good luck writing more environmentalist stories!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
What If? Writing Prompts: Humor V
Welcome to April! I hope you survived the pranks of April Fools’ Day, or maybe you pulled some off yourself! Either way, in the spirit of this humorous month, why not have some more fun with a few new “What If?” Writing Prompts? This week’s batch features prompts in the theme of humor. See what fun stories you can create from these ideas! Enjoy!
What if… every time you thought about a certain food, it magically appeared before you?
What if… you were hypnotized to sing every time someone said a specific word?
What if… for one day, you could understand animals, but not people?
What if… you woke up one day to find yourself in a cartoon?
What if… you were cursed to speak only in the form of bad jokes?
Good luck spinning more silly tales!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
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