158+ ‘Time travel’ Writing Prompts
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Time Travel Dilemma
You invent a time machine but it only makes one round trip. Where and when would you go and why?
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The Time Travel Calendar
Imagine you have a calendar that can time travel to any date. What dates will you choose and why?
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Adventures of the Time Traveling Carolers
Create an adventure story where a group of Christmas carolers accidentally time travel while caroling.
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Christmas Journey Through Time
Detail an imaginary Christmas journey through different historical periods.
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Transcendent Tyranny
Write about a villain who aims to harness time travel, potentially altering history to favor their reign.
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Time-Travelling Bloodlust
In a world where time travel is possible, a vampire is chasing victims through different eras.
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Time Travel Tales
Create a story about a time machine that allows you to travel anywhere in history.
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Time Travel Daylight
Imagine waking up on the day of daylight saving time change and finding out you’ve traveled to a different era.
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Historical Time Traveller
If you could go back in time to any historical epoch during your 7th grade history lessons, which would it be and why?
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Time Travel Tourist
Imagine you can time travel to any historical event or period. Write about where you would go and what you would do.
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A Way Back Into Time
Imagine your character has the ability to travel back in time to a period and place, where and when will that be and why.
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Treaded Eternity
Design a story where deceased souls must time travel to atone for their sins in life before they can pass on.
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Dystopian Restoration
A superhero born in a dystopian future uses their time travel abilities to prevent their world from descending into chaos.
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Accentuate the Positive
Write about a time-traveller who uses his power to spread positivity by preventing negative events from happening in the past.
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Grandfather Paradox
Write a story in which a time traveler meets his own grandfather back in time and their actions directly impact the present.
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Time Cops
Your protagonist is part of a special task force that goes back in time to prevent crimes that have yet to happen.
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Epochal Time Travel
Describe a chase scene across different periods of history as both the protagonist and antagonist can time travel.
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Sands of Time
Imagine a beach bonfire that has the mystical power to show the past or future. Write a story revolving around a character who discovers this power.
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Ghost Words
Construct an epistolary short story where letters from the past mysteriously appear in the present.
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Journey Through Time
Imagine navigating various epochs of human history with the aid of a time machine.
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Time Travel by Virtual Reality
Imagine using a virtual reality headset that can transport you to any moment in history. Which period would you choose to go to and why?
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Puppeteer of the Past
Create a scenario where time travel allows individuals to alter historical events for personal gain.
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The Inevitable Horizon
Imagine a future where time travel is possible and document an adventurous expedition a group of explorers undertake to witness the end of the world.
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Borrowed Time
A character has found an artifact that allows them to time travel, but each trip shortens their life.
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Journey to the Tomorrow
Write a suspenseful story of a time-travelling detective who prevents future crimes.
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Chase through Time
Create a suspenseful cat-and-mouse chase between a relentless detective and a criminal with the ability to time travel.
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Time Travel Summer Disaster
Write a funny tale of a time traveler who miscalculates and ends up in the middle of the hottest day of the year.
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Time-Traveling Diary
Write a story about a diary that allows you to time travel whenever you write in it.
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Caverns of Time
Write a story about a group of adventurers who find a mysterious cave that leads them back in time.
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Time-Traveling Train
You’re the conductor of a steam-powered locomotive that can travel through time.
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The Timekeeper’s Paradox
Spin a tale about a master clockmaker who invents a time-traveling pocket watch, but everything goes awfully wrong.
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Rewrite History
Choose a historical event and reimagine it with a speculative element, such as alien intervention or time travel.
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Time Terror
Picture a teenager who finds a time machine, but every jump into the future reveals something terrifying.
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Across The Time Continuum
Your story’s setting isn’t in a physical place, but across different periods of time.
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The Paradox Experiment
Write about a scientist who makes a breakthrough in time travel, but creates a paradox that alters reality in unexpected ways.
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Time Traveling Santa
In a world where time travel exists, Santa Claus uses this technology to deliver presents. How does he manage it?
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Time Travel Target
Imagine a detective with the ability to time travel who must solve the murder of their future self.
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Lost in Time
Write a narrative about someone who has discovered a time machine, which only travels forward.
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Sleeping Beauty and Time Travel
Sleeping Beauty wakes up not 100 years later from her own time, but in the 21st century after a scientific experiment goes wrong.
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Jingle All The Way Back to Past
You are sent back in time to the filming of a classic Christmas movie. What happens, and how does it change the movie?
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The ‘What If’ Scenario
Imagine if you were able to travel in time for a day. Where would you go and what would you do?
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Time Travel
If you could time travel only once, would you go to the past or the future? Write about your decision and what you hope to see or do.
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Time Travel Tales
Imagine you have a time machine, describe where you would go and what you would do using new vocabulary words.
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The Space-Time Anomaly
You encounter a space-time anomaly that sends you back in time upon contact. Describe the adventures you experience in the universe’s past.
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Love Through the Ages
Compose a poem that traverses time, detailing a love that has lasted throughout centuries.
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Time Travel Tales
If you could time travel to the future, what age or era would you choose to visit, and why?
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Time Machine Mix-up
In their first-ever time travel, a novice time traveller misinterprets the controls and ends up at a dinosaur-themed amusement park.
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A Paradox In Time
Describe the dilemma of a time-traveler who accidentally altered the course of history.
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Time Machine Journey
Write a story about finding a time machine and deciding to travel to a period in history.
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Space-Time Slip
You accidentally find a device that transports you to different timelines. Write about your time-travel adventure.
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Time Travel Mishap
Accidentally, you have landed in the wrong era due to a time machine error. Write about the wonky adventures you’d have.
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The Time-Travelling Diplomat
Write a series of dispatches from a modern-day diplomat who has accidentally time-traveled back to ancient Rome.
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Time Travel Tourism
You run a time-travel tourism company in the future, write about an average day in your life.
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Time Travel Tour
Choose a historical period and pretend you are a tour guide for time travellers. Write a journal entry about it.
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Adventures with an Ancestor
Pen down the exciting adventures you could see yourself having if you traveled back in time to meet an adventurous ancestor.
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Lost in Time
Each person chooses an era, and together, write a story where characters time travel between these selected periods.
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Artistic Time Travel
Choose a historical painting or sculpture. Write a fictional story about what was happening when the artwork was created.
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Travel Through Time
Imagine you have a time machine. Describe a journey to a past or future era, detailing the sights, sounds, and experiences.
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Musical Time Travel
Choose a period in history and create a song that would be a hit during that time.
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The Tenses Time Travel
Write two short stories of the same event, one using past tense and the other using present tense.
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Nightmare of the Time Traveler
Your protagonist can time travel, but every time they do, they see horrifying premonitions.
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From Fiction to Fact: A Science Perspective
Choose a piece of science fiction technology or concept and discuss the feasibility in reality.
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Time-Traveling to the Past
If you could time travel, describe a day in the life of your parents (or grandparents) when they were your age.
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Unexpected Superpowers
Imagine waking up one day with a superpower of your choice, what would it be and how would you use it?
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Fourth of July Through Time
Imagine you have the ability to time travel and attend any Fourth of July celebration in the history of America. Describe your experience.
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Time Travelling Adventure
Imagine you have a time machine, write a comic strip about the different eras you visit.
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The Time Travel Watch
Imagine if you invented a watch that could teleport you to any time period. Which period would you choose and why?
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School Time Machine
If you had a time machine and could travel to any time in the school day, where would you go and why?
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Maccabean Time Travel
Marry past and present by writing a time-travel story that involves characters from the original Hanukkah story arriving in the present day.
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Tales Across Timelines
If could have a conversation with your future 25-year-old self, what would you ask or discuss?
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Secret Door in the Basement
Your character discovers a hidden door in his basement which leads to a world he never knew existed.
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Time Travel Love
Write a narrative involving one character traveling across time to find their destined love.
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Time Travelling Musician
If you were a musician whose music could transport anyone to any time period, what songs would you play and why?
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Time Travel Adventure
If you could travel back or forward in time, where would you go and what could you do?
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Historic Time Travel
Craft a narrative as if you’ve just arrived at an ancient version of today’s modern cities. How is it different? How is it similar? How do you feel about it?
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Comic Time Travel Hypothesis
Compose a tale about a scientific experiment gone hilariously wrong, leading to an unintentional time travel mishap.
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A Timeless Easter
Craft a time-travelling adventure that throws the protagonist back to the first Easter.
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Lost in Time
Imagine traveling back in time, only to realize you are being haunted by a vengeful ghost that insists you amend a mistake from the past.
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Time-Traveler Chronicles
Imagine if an elder in your community had the ability to time travel — detail their journey.
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The Time Machine Invention
You have invented a time machine. Write about where you would go, what you would do, and who you would meet.
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Historic Time Travel
Write a story imagining you’ve traveled back in time to an important historical event.
