610+ ‘Space’ Writing Prompts
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Superpower Discovery
Visualize yourself as a superhero, detailing your unique superpower and how you realized you possessed this special ability.
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Echoes of Childhood
Choose a location from your childhood and describe how it shaped your experiences and sense of self.
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The Gift of Solitude
Write about what solitude has taught you or a lesson you’ve learned during a lonely period.
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Understanding Triggers: Past vs Present
Write a comparison between triggers that bothered you in the past and new ones that have emerged over time.
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Are You Listening, Anxiety?
Compose a letter to your anxiety, expressing how you feel about its influence on your life.
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New Identities, New Possibilities
Write about how you envision your life and your identity in a post-recovery phase.
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Emotion Mapping
Draw a map of your emotions, colouring in areas that correspond to various emotional states.
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Navigating Assertiveness
Address an issue where you feel you need to be assertive but are struggling to do so.
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Painting Peaceful Places
Describe a location, real or imaginary, that brings you a sense of calm and tranquility.
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Empowerment Mirror
Write about what you would like to see when you look in the mirror.
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Expansive Potential
List out the personal and professional goals you wish to achieve in the next five years.
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Emotional Release Letter
Write a letter to address an emotion that takes up a significant part of your life.
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Dream Future Self
Describe your ideal future self — who they are, what they’re doing, where they live — and explore how that image aligns with who you are now.
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Echoes in an Empty Room
Imagine your mind as an empty room. What does it look like? Who or what is present in it?
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Nature Nurture
Write about a memorable time you spent in nature and how it affected your mood or emotions.
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Lonely Spaces
Think about a place where you feel most lonely. It could be a physical location or a mental space.
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Embarking on a Journey of Acceptance
Imagine you are on a journey towards accepting your body image. Write about what this journey looks like and what you hope to achieve on this journey.
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Safe in the Sanctuary
Describe a place from your childhood where you felt safe, secure, and cared for.
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5. Healing Visualization
Write about a place or scenario where you completely feel at peace. How does it feel to be there? What do you see, hear, taste, touch and smell?
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4. Letters to Past Holder
Choose a person, object, or situation that has caused you trauma in the past. Write a letter to it, expressing your feelings, fears, and hopes.
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Honoring The Unspoken Dialogue
Write a letter to the loved one you lost, touching on all the things you wish you could have told them.
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Harmony with Nature
Describe a nature scene that you believe would bring you peace and promote your physical healing.
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Creative Space Exploration
Imagine being able to travel to any artwork, describe your experience living inside that painting or sculpture.
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Lost in Space
Narrate an unexpected galactic adventure after your spaceship veers off its planned trajectory.
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The Sidekick Chronicles
Write from the perspective of a superhero’s sidekick and their exploits together.
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Miracle of Talking
Discuss how talking about depression in a therapy setting can aid in the healing process.
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Safe Haven
Describe a physical place or space where you feel safe and content, even at the brink of depression.
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The Dark Room
Write a piece where depression is personified as a dark room that a character is trying to navigate.
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Calming Visualizations
Describe a setting or place that makes you feel calm, painting the scene with detailed images and sensory words.
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Facing Fears
Choose a fear or worry that has been frequently on your mind recently, detailing it as vividly and honestly as possible.
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Shifting Perspectives
Imagine your anxiety as a physical entity, describe what it looks and feels like.
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Unraveling Uncertainty
Write about a specific situation that has caused you anxiety, detailing the uncertainties that made you anxious.
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Unpacking Anxiety’s Reasons
Write a letter to your anxiety, treating it as a separate entity, and ask it important questions such as ‘why are you here?’ and ‘what do you want?’.
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Manifesting Calmness
Craft an in-depth description of your ideal calm space. This could be real or imaginary.
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Friendly Interactions
Recount an experience where a friend or loved one provided you with a feeling of safety and comfort.
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Safe Space Imagery
Create an imagery of your safe space or a place that calms you, and describe how it makes you feel.
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Conversation with Anxiety
Write a dialogue between yourself and your anxiety. Ask questions, express your feelings and listen to its responses.
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Safe Space Visualization
Create a detailed written visualization of your ‘Safe Space’. How does it look, smell, feel? How do you feel when you’re there, and how does it help you cope with anxieties?
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Embracing Imperfection
Narrate an episode where you might have made a mistake and how you dealt with it.
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Daily Stress Diary
Record every moment or event that made you feel stressed or anxious during the day and your reactions to them.
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Alien Planet Exploration
Write a story about a team of explorers landing on an alien planet for the first time.
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Intergalactic Adventure
Imagine you’ve been chosen for a space mission, write about your journey and who or what you encounter.
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Footsteps in the Attic
Your character is alone at home when they suddenly hear footsteps from the attic.
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Life in the Biosphere
Your community has survived the end of the world in a self-sustaining biosphere. Write about the life within its walls.
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Pathway to the Stars
Describe a journey into the heart of the universe using metaphors related to sea exploration.
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Starborne Solitude
Write about the daily realities and emotions that come with living alone in a space station.
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The Forgotten Earth
In the future, humanity has abandoned Earth for life in space. Write about an expedition that returns to the abandoned planet.
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The Humble Abode
Describe your childhood home or a significant place from your memory providing as much detail as possible.
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Setting The Scene
Write about a specific location, describing it so vividly that the reader can picture it in their mind.
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Cosmic Crusade
Write about a galactic quest across alien planets in search for a priceless artifact.
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Paradox Pathway
Concoct a sci-fi story involving time travel where the plot twist reveals a paradox.
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Extraterrestrial Investigation
Write a story about investigating strange occurrences in an alien space station.
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Emotional Spectrum Haiku
Write a Haiku that captures your complex emotions towards a personal situation.
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Familiar Spaces, Unfamiliar Time
Write about a current space in your life, but in the context of a different time period.
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Opposite Day on a Different Planet
How would an average day look like if you were living on a planet where day is night and night is day.
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Voyage Through the Solar System
Detail a journey through our solar system, explaining the science behind each planet.
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Persuasive Vision
Choose a location in your town that you think should be transformed, and write an article urging the community to make that change.
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Building Communities with Words
Discuss the importance of online communities and how your blog contributes to this network.
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The Major Life Turnaround
Describe a major event in your character’s life that significantly changes their course.
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“Intergalactic IR”
Write about intergalactic nations dealing with trivial bureaucratic red tape and interstellar regulations to make space travel possible.
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Silver Linings in Space
You are an astronaut and your spaceship has been lost in space. Write a diary entry detailing your situation and survival strategy.
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Across Time and Space
You stumble upon a mysterious artifact that harbors mind-bending power to time-travel. Describe an adventure.
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Lunar Escape
Write about an unexpected malfunction on your spaceship that leaves you stranded on the moon.
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Embark on a Space Colony
You are selected as one of the pioneers to inhabit a space colony on a distant planet.
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The Loneliest Astronaut
Imagine you are the last astronaut left in space. Describe a day in your life.