1500 Fantasy Writing Prompts
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Print and digital release: July 1, 2025
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
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Ten Categories, Infinite Directions
High Fantasy
High Fantasy
Expansive, immersive worlds shaped by magic, myth, and moral struggle, where the fate of kingdoms often hangs in the balance.
Urban Fantasy
Urban Fantasy
Supernatural forces clash with the mundane in contemporary settings where magic hides in plain sight—or kicks down the door.
Epic Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
Sweeping sagas of heroism, war, and destiny, where personal sacrifice fuels world-shaking events across vast landscapes and generations.
Sword and Sorcery
Sword and Sorcery
Fast-paced tales of gritty heroes and deadly magic, where steel clashes with sorcery in dark corners of dangerous worlds.
Dark Fantasy
Dark Fantasy
Bleak, brutal, and brooding, where horror creeps into fantasy worlds and characters confront monsters both literal and moral.
Fractured Fairy Tales
Fractured Fairy Tales
Familiar stories are reshaped with fresh perspective, adding complexity, darkness, or humor to timeless characters and enchanted settings.
Gaslamp Fantasy
Gaslamp Fantasy
Victorian aesthetics meet arcane intrigue in atmospheric worlds fueled by manners, mystery, and the occasional magical experiment gone wrong.
Portal Fantasy
Portal Fantasy
Ordinary lives are interrupted by passage into strange realms, where new rules, cultures, and dangers challenge everything the characters thought they knew.
Mythic Fantasy
Mythic Fantasy
Stories echo with ancient resonance, channeling the language, structure, and symbolic weight of folklore, legend, and sacred traditions.
Low Fantasy
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.
