This Week's Writing Prompts: Science Fiction

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This week's writing prompt theme from curriculum lab is going to be slightly out of my realm, Science Fiction!  

Sci-Fi is a very popular genre when comes to movies and books.  Let's take a deep dive into our imaginations and create a science fiction short story using one of these prompts.

1. The Time Traveler: One of my favorite books is The Time Travelers Wife.  Create a short story using Audrey Niffenegger's debut success novel, The Time Traveler's Wife.  If you haven't read the book, you can also get inspiration from the movie starring Rachel McAdams.  

2. My UFO Experience: Write a fictional story that has a non-fiction feel to it by writing from a first-person point of view about the experience of seeing a UFO or being abducted by aliens.

3. Parallel Portal: Write about the discovery of a portal that takes people to different parallel universes.

4. Lost Civilizations:  Write about an archeologist that discovers a lost civilization that has evidence that they had advanced technology, even more advanced than what we have today.  

5.  Dystopia:  Write about a dystopian future society.  

6. Magical Realms:  Create a fantasy story where magical elements exist in everyday life.  This could be fairies for guardian's or guidance, witches that can manipulate anything they want through magical spells, creatures from a magical place in time, or anything your imagination can come up with.  

7. A Society in Space: Write about building a new society in the near future that is on a different planet.

8. The Secret Sci-fi Society:  Write about a private investigation team that specializes in supernatural/science fiction like investigations for everyday people experiencing the unexpected.

9.  A Wrinkle in the Matrix:  Imagine we are all being controlled by some invisible forces where we exist in a simulation.  Add some kind of glitch that puts the secret at risk.

10. Do You See What I See?:  Start your story with someone asking the main character, do you see what I see?  

Science fiction is not a genre that I usually write, but I am inspired by some of the writing prompts above.  Even if you are not a science fiction writer, attempt to get inspired by our writing prompts this week, and you may just surprise yourself!

We would love to read what you come up with!  Please share by commenting on this post or sending us your short story via email at curriculumlab365@gmail.com.  

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