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Fantasy can integrate with many other genres, as having elements of fantasy in any novel can be a cool touch. That’s where these fantasy prompts come into place!
Writing prompts are meant to help inspire your own writing and for you to go on and elaborate on further more than the prompts into a story. The details are for you to wove in and the ending for you to decide.
These types of novels are great to read and let your dreams run lose, because anything can happen in a fantasy world aka a novel.
So take a look at these 36 Magical Fantasy Writing Prompts that are sure to open a whole new world of fantasy to you!
Let’s Start with these Fantasy Prompts! :
1. Some warlocks like to trap fairies in bottles as hobbies, but you just trapped the Fairy Queen in a mason jar.
2. Werewolves now in the modern world actually take form as German shepherds. Explain what happened after your dog just appeared as a human at twelve.
3. You flipped through your favorite childhood fantasy book, and you notice the key necklace you’re wearing looks identical to the elf princess’s.
4. The reason why mermaids were never discovered, is that maybe there’s someone or something hiding their existence just beneath the surface.
5. Vampire children are illegal in their world, but what if the children consists of vampire and both witch blood?..
6. In this world, everyone has either red or purple eyes, anyone having any other color than that is given to the golden eyed king. And you are born with black eyes.
7. The Siren’s voice is deadly, and only the humans can be taken down, but when you heard singing from the sea at the beach, you weren’t entranced.
8. Letters would appear at your desk every night, but then disappear after reading it, the last letter sent said, “I’m a sorcerer, would you like to become my assistant?”
9. You’ve always liked books, so when you walked to the local library at night to check out another, no one is there, but a leopard sits meters away from you. And it just spoke.
10. Dragons are one of the most ancient mystical creatures on Earth, and you believed they only exist in stories. Or so you thought.
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11. “There’s no way.” “I’m a freaking elf standing right in front of you. You tell me there’s no way.”
12. Gnomes has always lived in caves, so when you went hiking and went in a cave out of curiosity, you are looking at an entire city hidden inside the mountain, filled with gnomes. *I realize this sounds familiar, so just to make myself feel better about writing a sorta copyrighted and already done prompt, Imma write another one.
FIXED 12. Gnomes can be varying sizes, so when you got into gardening at your backyard, you woke up one night, to find gnomes helping to fix your dying plants.
13. You’ve always liked unicorns as a kid, so you own a horse farm. And one day you woke up to tend to your horses, but you see a white horse at the last stall, with possibly a long horn.
14. People don’t believe in mermaids, but you do, so when your ship sank, you wake up to three mermaids waving goodbye to you on the beach. “Thanks for believing in us all these times!”
15. Demons were originally angels, why they became demons is that they committed one of the most horrible crime : falling in love with a human or killing a human.
16. “Aliens don’t exist dude.” “Oh you never know. I might be an alien for all you know.”
17. When you were at the worst point in your life, your struck a deal with a demon to become ______
18. The most treasured collector’s items is none other, than a pair of torn angel wings.
19. You looked through your family tree, and the first one writes : “Angel Jean and Demon Black.” You are a Nephilim.
20. When you sleep, you like to let your thoughts and dreams run wild. But one day, you woke up to your own dream, as reality.
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21. The Pandora Box have always been a myth, so when you open a box at the attic, and you end up looking at multiple glass balls, you know that you should close the box, but curiosity gets the best of you.
22. The twelve Chinese Zodiacs at New Years Eve likes to party, and when the dragon drank too much and flew outside, the world went wild.
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23. Gods and goddesses were suppose to take in a human god every five centuries, and you might’ve just got chosen.
24. The vampires are endangered and to extend their population out, there’s only one way. Go all out on the day we all call Halloween.
25. “Are you a vampire?” “Yes, but don’t you dare ask if I hate onions, fear salt or holy water, and can only die through silver axes or whatever.”
26. Elves are all usually born with golden hair and pale shining skin. But an elf baby has just been born with the same pale skin, but instead of blond, he was born with jet black hair.
27. The entire world is under a spell cast by the world most powerful magician to find true love, only he can move while others remain frozen. You’ve been living alone for the past decade, tell what happens after he discovers her.
28. Massive UFOs are starting to land from space onto cities, but they didn’t come here for war.
29. Zombies are actually developed through a certain disease, it has always been contained, until one zombie hopped over the fence.
30. The fairy and elf queen are best friends, so when an elf murdered the fairy king, things started going downhill.
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31. The deepest level in the ocean is black, but years of developing technology, you go to the bottom of the ocean to find light, and a whole kingdom of mermaids.
32. At the strike of twelve, your godmother didn’t appear, but a masked gentleman did, and with one hand, he asks, “Would you like to dance, Princess?”
33. You just got tied into a deal between you and the witch, and it’s not a good one.
34. The magician at your 20th birthday party pulls out a tiny glass bottle and smiled, “My gift from me to you, the fairy will answer your wishes.”
35. One day, out of nowhere, all the dolls in the world started to move.
36. What if all fantasy books written down are actual events that happened, but in a different universe?
Conclusion :
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