Writing Prompts for Teens

16 writing prompts for teens to start with

Every one can go straight into the AI story generator: tap "Write it" to see one way the story could go, then write your own version.

1. Write about a new student at a school with strange rules who finds a yearbook from next year.Write it
2. Write about a teen who runs a secret advice account and discovers their phone is receiving texts from the past.Write it
3. Write about the goalkeeper of a losing team who has one night to fix the school play.Write it
4. Write about a girl who can rewind ten seconds and has to survive a week with no phone at a camp with a secret.Write it
5. Write about a boy who works nights at his family's diner and must choose between their best friend and the truth.Write it
6. Write about a teen living in a lighthouse who learns their quiet neighbour was once famous.Write it
7. Write about a gamer who meets their online rival in real life and starts a band to win back a friend.Write it
8. Write about a student council candidate with a secret who is blamed for a prank they didn't pull.Write it
9. Write about a teen who inherits a haunted bookshop and is chosen to lead the expedition nobody wants.Write it
10. Write about the last kid picked for the school trip who finds out the popular kid is hiding something.Write it

What-if ideas

• What if everyone's secrets appeared on their skin for a day?Write it
• What if your school was secretly a training ground for spies?Write it
• What if your future self started leaving you notes?Write it
• What if every teenager got one superpower at sixteen and yours was useless?Write it
• What if adults vanished from your town overnight?Write it
• What if social media likes became currency?Write it

Tips for young writers

Write what feels true

Even with superpowers, the emotions (embarrassment, loyalty, first love) should feel real.

Give the hero agency

Teen protagonists are most compelling when they make choices instead of waiting for adults to help.

Voice matters

First-person narration is popular in young adult fiction because it puts the reader right inside the character's head.