🎉 Celebrating 70 Days of Writing with 70 Fiction Writing Challenges!

Today marks 70 days in a row of posting here on the blog — and I couldn’t be more excited to celebrate this milestone with YOU!

Whether you’ve been here from day one or just found your way to this cozy creative corner, I’m so grateful you’re here. To honor the journey, I’ve created 70 fiction writing challenges — one for every single day I’ve shown up to write, post, and grow.

These prompts are meant to stretch your imagination, deepen your characters, explore new genres, and bring fresh energy to your writing routine. Ready to celebrate your creativity with me?

Let’s dive in!

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🧍‍♀️ Character-Driven Challenges

Explore your characters’ inner worlds, secrets, and emotional arcs.

1. Write a scene where your character faces their greatest fear.
2. Introduce a new character using only dialogue.
3. Write a story from the villain’s perspective.
4. Create a character based on someone you dislike.
5. Write a scene where your character lies for a good reason.
6. Write a letter your protagonist would never send.
7. Invent a backstory for your side character.
8. Describe your character’s childhood bedroom.
9. Write a scene where your character is forced to make a moral choice.
10. Show a character making a decision that changes their life.

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🌍 Worldbuilding Challenges

For fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian, and speculative fiction fans.

11. Invent a holiday celebrated only in your fictional world.
12. Describe a myth or legend from your setting.
13. Create a unique plant or animal species.
14. Design a city or village in your world.
15. Write a conversation involving a cultural misunderstanding.
16. Create a job that only exists in your story world.
17. Write a weather event that affects your plot.
18. Invent a historical event that changed your fictional society.
19. Write about a forbidden place in your world.
20. Design a ritual or tradition and its origins.

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⚔️ Plot and Conflict Challenges

Stir up drama, conflict, and unexpected twists in your stories.

21. Start a story in the middle of an argument.
22. Write a story that starts with a stolen object.
23. Write a scene where something goes terribly wrong at a celebration.
24. Create a plot twist halfway through a scene.
25. Write a scene where the hero loses.
26. Write about a character hiding a major secret.
27. Start a story with a lie.
28. Write a scene where the antagonist helps the protagonist.
29. Create a story where a prophecy plays a role—then break the prophecy.
30. Write a chase scene that reveals inner conflict.

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🎭 Genre-Specific Challenges

Step out of your comfort zone and into new creative territory.

31. Write a cozy fantasy in under 1,000 words.
32. Create a horror story that takes place in broad daylight.
33. Write a romantic confession interrupted by something absurd.
34. Write a sci-fi story with no space travel.
35. Write a murder mystery where no one dies.
36. Write a dystopian story with a hopeful ending.
37. Write a magical realism scene using only natural imagery.
38. Write a steampunk invention gone wrong.
39. Create a fantasy story with no magic.
40. Write a contemporary drama about an imaginary friend.

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👁️‍🗨️ Sensory and Style Challenges

Flex your craft muscles and experiment with voice, style, and form.

41. Write a story using only dialogue.
42. Describe a place using all five senses.
43. Write a scene without using the letter “e.”
44. Create a mood using only weather descriptions.
45. Write a flash fiction piece under 300 words.
46. Describe an intense emotion without naming it.
47. Rewrite a fairy tale in your own style.
48. Write a story backwards—start with the ending.
49. Write a dream sequence with a hidden message.
50. Write a story that takes place entirely in one room.

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💫 Theme-Based Challenges

Dig deeper into universal truths and powerful emotional experiences.

51. Write about forgiveness between enemies.
52. Explore a “found family” theme.
53. Write a story about loss without using the word “death.”
54. Show what freedom means to a character.
55. Write about identity and transformation.
56. Explore the cost of ambition.
57. Write a story centered on an unbreakable promise.
58. Write about loyalty being tested.
59. Explore what home means to different characters.
60. Write about a character discovering a forgotten truth.

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⏳ Time-Based Challenges

Play with structure, flashbacks, timelines, and tension.

61. Write a story that takes place in one hour.
62. Write a scene set 10 years after the end of your story.
63. Write about a past mistake haunting the present.
64. Set a story during a historical moment from your world.
65. Write a story where time moves backward.
66. Write a moment that happens at exactly midnight.
67. Write a flashback that reveals new meaning to current events.
68. Describe an event from two timelines at once.
69. Create a story that spans only five minutes.
70. Write about a ticking clock that creates urgency.

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💖 A Heartfelt Thank You

I started this blog as a space for writers, dreamers, and creatives like you — and hitting 70 days in a row feels like a dream come true. Thank you for reading, sharing, and being part of this little writing world I’m building.

These 70 fiction writing challenges are my way of giving back.

Here’s to the next 70 days — and all the stories waiting to be told. 🖊️💫

Happy Writing ^_^