Middle School Writing Prompts

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

Write a horror or fantasy story based around this image.

Write a story or poem based on the idiom 'a storm in a teacup'. (If you don't know what this means, look it up and use your newly learned phrase!)

‘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.

Sanctuary. Elevate. Conscious.

In a story of no more than 10 lines, use these three words in any order. Try not to randomly throw them in, but think about a storyline that allows you to link them all naturally.

When the fairy’s love spell fades, a family has to deal with the consequences of it.