Writing Prompts to Help You Craft Better Stories
These 7 science fiction writing prompts teach you advanced storytelling techniques while igniting your imagination
In a previous article, I wrote on the use of prompts to help writers understand craft elements and level up their careers. Essentially, the average writer tackles writing prompts in a very basic manner. And it leads them to write the same tired stories while never improving their craft.
Write a story about a man who’s lost his job. Write a story about a character that’s a dog. Write a story about a writer writing a story. Those prompts, while fun, are useless. They don’t teach the writer anything and the only thing they accomplish is getting writers to write a story—but most writers won’t write the story, let alone finish it.
Those types of basic prompts don’t teach writers how to tell a story well. How to use the nuances of craft to bind their readers and keep them locked in their story till the end. That’s why I create writing prompts that do more. My writing prompts actually teach writers craft elements through the tried and true method of deliberate practice.
Since I wrote that article, I’ve been designing new prompts for writers to help them understand more craft topics and become better…
