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25 Fantasy Writing Prompts
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34 More Scifi and Fantasy Writing Prompts
It's about 2 weeks to Midsummer. Let's write about that.
Read about Midsummer celebrations around the world.
Now, create your ideal Midsummer celebration. Create a Pagan family with at least three generation. There should be children in the family. Tell about this family's Midsummer celebration.
If you would describe Midsummer with one word, what would that word be? Write a short story that embodies the word.
Write about what makes summer a summer, whether things you like or things you hate.
Write about fire. You can write about real fire, or the fire inside.
Write your own myth about how sun came to be.
Write about passion, love and sex
Write about parenthood
Find a myth about a Sun deity and retell that story
10 brilliant retellings of classical myths
Write about the Yellow Rose of Texas.
Watch St.Elmo's Fire and write a Pagan version of it
June 2nd was International Sex Workers' Day - to create awareness for the problems and violence against sex workers. Do your part and write a story to make people aware of that sex workers are people, too, and should get the same rights and privileges as all the other workers. If you are against sex work, write about that.
Write your version of The Midsummer Night's Dream
What does honey mean to you? Write a story about honey - or honey wine, honey bread (gingerbread), or other honey derivate.
Write a story about an emerald.
Write a story about a horse.
Write a story about a robin. (The Secret Garden is one of the best known stories about a robin :-D)
Read the Russian fairy tale about the Firebird and then retell it
Write a story about a day at the beach.
Write a story about the sights, scents, tastes, sensations and sounds of Midsummer
Write about your favorite Midsummer food, drink, activity, decoration - When was the first time you remember eating the food? Is there a story involved in the decoration?
If you don't celebrate Midsummer, why the heck not!?
What is your favorite summer song? Write a story about that.
Take your favorite Christmas carol and write new lyrics to it, lyrics that fit Midsummer, summer and June.
Write a story about Australia.
Learn more about the Australian Aborigines, and write a fantasy story with people based on the Aborigines.
June 5th is the Danish constitution day and June 6th is the Swedish national day (and May 17th was Norwegian independence day), and June 8th is the day the Vikings ransacked Lindisfarne - so write about vikings.
June 12th is World Day Against Child Labor - write about that
In many places Fathers' Day is celebrated in June. Write about fathers.
June 18th is International Picnic Day - write about a picnic.
June 20th is World Refugee Day. Write about a refugee.
Go to this list of solar deities. Pick 10. Learn more about them. Find myths about them.
Find a defining quality of your deities. For example, Eki, the Basque sun goddess is the protector of humanity and the enemy of all evil spirits. Now, think about how you could "help" her with this job
I found this:
25 Fantasy Writing Prompts
and
34 More Scifi and Fantasy Writing Prompts
It's about 2 weeks to Midsummer. Let's write about that.
Read about Midsummer celebrations around the world.
Now, create your ideal Midsummer celebration. Create a Pagan family with at least three generation. There should be children in the family. Tell about this family's Midsummer celebration.
If you would describe Midsummer with one word, what would that word be? Write a short story that embodies the word.
Write about what makes summer a summer, whether things you like or things you hate.
Write about fire. You can write about real fire, or the fire inside.
Write your own myth about how sun came to be.
Write about passion, love and sex
Write about parenthood
Find a myth about a Sun deity and retell that story
10 brilliant retellings of classical myths
Watch St.Elmo's Fire and write a Pagan version of it
June 2nd was International Sex Workers' Day - to create awareness for the problems and violence against sex workers. Do your part and write a story to make people aware of that sex workers are people, too, and should get the same rights and privileges as all the other workers. If you are against sex work, write about that.
Write your version of The Midsummer Night's Dream
What does honey mean to you? Write a story about honey - or honey wine, honey bread (gingerbread), or other honey derivate.
This is Russian honeycake. Bake it for Midsummer.
Write a story about an emerald.
Write a story about a horse.
Write a story about a robin. (The Secret Garden is one of the best known stories about a robin :-D)
Read the Russian fairy tale about the Firebird and then retell it
"He goes in and the door is shut. I think we will not open the door or follow him.
I think that just now we are not wanted there.
I think it will be best for us to go quickly and quietly away.
At the end of the field, among the thin gold spikes of grass
and the harebells and Gipsy roses and St. John's Wort,
we may just take one last look, over our shoulders,
at the white house where neither we nor anyone else is wanted now."
— E. Nesbit
— E. Nesbit
Write a story about a day at the beach.
Write a story about the sights, scents, tastes, sensations and sounds of Midsummer
Write about your favorite Midsummer food, drink, activity, decoration - When was the first time you remember eating the food? Is there a story involved in the decoration?
If you don't celebrate Midsummer, why the heck not!?
"You've never heard of the Trickster King?" Puck asked, shocked.
The girls shook their heads.
"The Prince of Fairies? Robin Goodfellow? The Imp?"
"Do you work for Santa?" Daphne asked.
"I'm a fairy, not an elf!" Puck roared. "You really don't know who I am!
The girls shook their heads.
"The Prince of Fairies? Robin Goodfellow? The Imp?"
"Do you work for Santa?" Daphne asked.
"I'm a fairy, not an elf!" Puck roared. "You really don't know who I am!
Doesn't anyone read the classics anymore? Dozens of writers have warned about me.
I'm in the most famous of all of William Shakespeare's plays."
"I don't remember any Puck in Romeo and Juliet," Sabrina muttered,
"I don't remember any Puck in Romeo and Juliet," Sabrina muttered,
feeling a little amused at how the boy was reacting to his non-celebrity.
"Besides Romeo and Juliet!" Puck shouted. "I'm the star of a Midsummer Night's Dream!"
"Congratulation," Sabrina said flatly. "Never read it."
— Michael Buckley (The Fairy-Tale Detectives)
"Besides Romeo and Juliet!" Puck shouted. "I'm the star of a Midsummer Night's Dream!"
"Congratulation," Sabrina said flatly. "Never read it."
— Michael Buckley (The Fairy-Tale Detectives)
What is your favorite summer song? Write a story about that.
Take your favorite Christmas carol and write new lyrics to it, lyrics that fit Midsummer, summer and June.
Write a story about Australia.
Learn more about the Australian Aborigines, and write a fantasy story with people based on the Aborigines.
June 5th is the Danish constitution day and June 6th is the Swedish national day (and May 17th was Norwegian independence day), and June 8th is the day the Vikings ransacked Lindisfarne - so write about vikings.
June 12th is World Day Against Child Labor - write about that
In many places Fathers' Day is celebrated in June. Write about fathers.
June 18th is International Picnic Day - write about a picnic.
June 20th is World Refugee Day. Write about a refugee.
Go to this list of solar deities. Pick 10. Learn more about them. Find myths about them.
Find a defining quality of your deities. For example, Eki, the Basque sun goddess is the protector of humanity and the enemy of all evil spirits. Now, think about how you could "help" her with this job
"The dried yellow petals of St. John's wort, which Old Marie called
'chase-devil'
for the way it could drive the megrims away. Gaudy
calendula, bright as the sun.
Sweet-smelling lemon balm, guaranteed to
lift the spirits with its aroma alone."
— Kate Forsyth
— Kate Forsyth
