1500 Fantasy Writing Prompts

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Featuring

  • Ten fantasy categories with 150 prompts each
  • Two special “Twist It” exercises in each chapter
  • A curated recommended reading list in each chapter
  • An introduction focused on writing within the genre
1500 Fantasy Writing Prompts Table of Contents
Table of Contents

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High Fantasy
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High Fantasy

Expansive, immersive worlds shaped by magic, myth, and moral struggle, where the fate of kingdoms often hangs in the balance.

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Urban Fantasy

Supernatural forces clash with the mundane in contemporary settings where magic hides in plain sight—or kicks down the door.

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Epic Fantasy

Sweeping sagas of heroism, war, and destiny, where personal sacrifice fuels world-shaking events across vast landscapes and generations.

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Sword and Sorcery

Fast-paced tales of gritty heroes and deadly magic, where steel clashes with sorcery in dark corners of dangerous worlds.

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Dark Fantasy

Bleak, brutal, and brooding, where horror creeps into fantasy worlds and characters confront monsters both literal and moral.

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Fractured Fairy Tales

Familiar stories are reshaped with fresh perspective, adding complexity, darkness, or humor to timeless characters and enchanted settings.

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Gaslamp Fantasy

Victorian aesthetics meet arcane intrigue in atmospheric worlds fueled by manners, mystery, and the occasional magical experiment gone wrong.

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Portal Fantasy

Ordinary lives are interrupted by passage into strange realms, where new rules, cultures, and dangers challenge everything the characters thought they knew.

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Mythic Fantasy

Stories echo with ancient resonance, channeling the language, structure, and symbolic weight of folklore, legend, and sacred traditions.

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Low Fantasy

Gritty, grounded stories where power lies in politics more than prophecy, and magic—if it exists—is rare, dangerous, and distrusted.

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Twist it inside-out or outside-in

Each chapter concludes two exercises—Twist It Inside-Out and Twist It Outside-In—that push you to reimagine familiar stories in unexpected ways. Push a sci-fi story into another genre or pull something completely unrelated into sci-fi! They’re perfect for stretching your storytelling skills and discovering new angles you might never have considered.