Middle School Adventure Writing Prompts

Monsters can be heroes too. Write a short story in which a monster saves the day.

Write a story, poem, or descriptive paragraph inspired by this setting.

The door creaked open, revealing a long-forgotten room...

‘All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue.’

Write a poem that begins or ends with this line, adapted from Alice in Wonderland. Don’t feel limited to the themes and images of the book – see where else you could go from these words.

Write a poem about the first time you did something.

New experiences are often thought-provoking. Try to stay away from obvious first times and go for something unusual.

You buy an item at random from an antiques shop, not realising at first what it really is...