Getting middle schoolers to write creatively can often be a struggle.
These fiction writing prompts are aimed at 6th, 7th, and 8th graders to be creative and use words to paint a picture of their own creation.
Fiction doesn’t just have to be a whole new story either, it could be an alternate history or an exploration of a what if. These prompts encourage students to explore all the ways that fiction writing can be used.
How to use these:
These prompts are all great for the pull one-out-of-a-hat method of prompt assignment. It could be fun to try a couple of games, or use a deck of cards and match the prompts to the cards pulled. Anything fun is a great way to start.
Here are the prompts:
- Write about a magical place with a secret entrance.
- Write a story that involves dragons in some way.
- Create an alternate ending to your favorite movie.
- Create a new setting for your favorite story to take place in.
- What if genies were real and you could have three wishes if you found one?
- How would the world be a different place if everyone had a dog?
- What would happen if you changed the ending of a movie? What would you decide to change and how?
- Write a story about a family on a spaceship.
- What would happen on a beach vacation with no beach?
- Write a mystery story in the style of Sherlock Holmes.
- Write a story about growing up somewhere desolate or abandoned.
- Pick a random location in the universe and create a civilization that lives there.
- Write a story of a magical journey of some sort. Plane, train, automobile, or some other way to travel. Be creative and original.
- Write a story about a rooster that breathes fire instead of crowing.
- Create an alternate universe where all the people are the opposites of themselves.
- Write a story about a sleepy town with a big secret.
- Write about a safari vacation gone wrong in a hilarious way.
- Write a story about a boat trip.
- Write a story about someone who has a secret.
- Write a story about a spy who is bad at his job.
- Write a story about a robot who has a few unexpected skills and quirks.
- Write about a girl with a tiger as her pet.
- Create a new civilization in an unknown area on Earth. Explain the similarities and differences between their society and yours.
- Explain how an elephant could follow you home in a story about a trip to the zoo that ends up with a whole lot of baggage.
- Write a story about a magical jacket passed down through a family. What are its magical properties?
- Write about finding a buried pirate treasure.
- What would happen if people could fly the way that birds do? Write about it.
- How do you feel the world would be different if World War II had never taken place? Describe your vision.
- Write about a family that moves frequently.
- Write a story that involves a banana, a bowling ball, and a Christmas tree.
- Write a story that explains something we already know about in a new and interesting way.
- Write a story that involves a ballerina taking on a new career.
- Create a story about a garbage man who dreams of being something different, only to discover his love of the garbage man’s life.
- Describe an alternate ending for a favorite book or a book that you have read as a class.
- Create a parallel universe where things are almost the same as ours, except for a few key differences.
- Write the next Lego movie about some well-known story or myth, except in Lego.
- Describe the day after Justin Bieber was elected President.
- Write a story about dogs that can talk to their owners.
- Write a story about Spiderman as if he had been bitten by a hamster instead of a spider.
- Write a story about the future.
- Write a story about the first human encounter with an alien life form.
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