25 Writing Prompts for When You’re Bored, Traveling, or Looking for an Excuse to Avoid People

Fantasy Edition

by Ash L. O’Rourke

Unfamiliar, magical creatures have invaded the world; nobody knows where they came from, and nobody understands them. One day you wake up and realize you can speak their language...

You are the child of a family dedicated to hunting down and exterminating magical creatures, but you have been hiding a dangerous secret; you have magical powers of your own...

Every cruel word ever spoken about you appears on your skin as a tattoo, so you typically go about clothed in robes—until one day someone catches you unawares without your robes—and your tattoos disappear, reappearing on their skin instead...

Are you bored, traveling, or looking for an excuse to avoid people? Look no further.

These original fantasy writing prompts are nothing like the writing prompts you have seen before. Crafted with greater context than your average prompt, this journal is designed to kickstart your imagination and maybe even inspire your next great work-in-progress.

This book even includes an overflow section for those ideas that refuse to be contained to a measly two pages.

Space Aliens, Southerners, and Saving the World

by Ash L. O’Rourke

Freaking space aliens.

In a way, it’s kind of a dream to be offered an internship in my field; astrobiology isn't exactly commonplace, sweetie—my southern family likes to find subtle ways to remind me of that. But this dream come true is already turning into a nightmare. I should have realized how impossible it would be to balance an internship I’m totally unqualified for with work, grad school, any kind of friendship, and the omnipresent bodyguard sent over from the research organization—a bodyguard, by the way, who seems to think he's God’s gift to humanity.

And all of that was before I had a target on my back. At this point, if my little team can’t prove that a certain alien species intermingled with humans—the snobbiest of all the alien species on the big, bad intergalactic council in my humble, human opinion—the earth is scheduled for demolition. Oh, and did I mention that the interstellar elitists have started sending assassins after me?

Wish me luck, I guess.