Writing Prompt: How to Train Your Cryptid

A group of teens find themselves at a very odd summer camp… 

The woods nearby are teeming with odd wild life and the counselors tell then tales at night about the beautiful beasts that once roamed the earth that were forced into hiding.  

The second week of camp it is revealed that this is a camp where teens are trained to house and protect different cryptids, choosing one specifically as their own companion.  

The campers are arranged into “cabins”:

Nessie 

Sasquatch  

Yeti 

Thunderbird 

Jackalope  

Kraken 

Miscellaneous Dialogue Prompts

“Thanks for underestimating me; I needed the motivation.”

“Tell me, if our hearts were replaced with clocks, would love more?”

“Someone here has to be hollow; might as well be you.”

“I dont remember your face but I remember I love you.”

“Follow close- there’s no telling what’ll be waiting for us.”

“If you were made to mend broken hearts, you would have been born with a needle and thread.”

“Knowledge and understanding are two totally seperate things I’m afraid.”

“I deserve to be loved, not merely considered.”

“You fell so many by the sword yet you cannot save yourself.”

“Please don’t look away.”

“The problem with people who take down giants, Is they end up thinking they’re giants themselves.”

Writing: Royally Messed Up

In a fairytalesque land, where nobles and royalty randomly marry their Princes and Princesses off to strangers, yet another Princess finds herself in this position and, as oppose to agreeing to this fate she runs away only to run into a gang, one comprised completely of royalty and Noble children and teens who refused their parents plans of marriage for them and joined forces once they found each other.

Writing Prompt: The Carnival

Every year a magical, twisted carnival arrives in your town. It shows up with no warning. No one sees the set up and no one sees it taken down. It just vanishes after a week’s time. Every game here promises magical and immense prizes but the prices to play are often more than you want to pay…

Writing Prompt: Mind Meld

You are born with the ability to see people’s thoughts, swirling in a cloud above their head. You’re accustomed to seeing images, faces, and nearly indistinguishable words above everyone’s head as you go about life. Generally their thoughts are pretty “colorless” and don’t pique your interest anyway. That was until one fateful day when you met them.