158+ ‘Time travel’ Writing Prompts
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Time Travel Trip
Create a comic strip of yourself going back in time and meeting a younger version of your parents.
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Time Travel Tempest
Craft a play script featuring a character who inadvertently invents a time-travel device.
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The Time-Travelling Troubadour
Craft a character who travels uncontrollably through time when they sleep.
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Time Travel Tales
Imagine you’ve found a time machine. Write a comic strip story about an incident that happens when you travel to…
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Crafty Time Travel
Imagine if your favorite historical figure lived in the present day and took up crafting. Describe what unique craft they…
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Haunted Apparel
A character finds an old costume in an antique store and then experiences bone-chilling episodes each time they put it…
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Misadventures of a Time Traveling Baker
Create a story about a baker who accidentally discovers a recipe for time travel.
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Time Traveling Toddler
Write about a toddler who acquires a time-traveling teddy bear and the adventures they go on.
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Toon Time Travel
A cartoon character is thrown into a real-life era of the past: how does their unusual presence reshape the course…
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Future Explorer
Write a journal entry from the perspective of a student in the year 3021 going back to school.
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Lost Aztec Empire
You find in your grandmother’s attic an ancient Aztec artifact that transports you back in time. What do you see?
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Superhero-in-Training
You’ve been selected to be a superhero. Write about your unique superpower and your first mission.
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Time Travel Trials
You are a time traveler on a critical mission. Write about where you go and what adventures you face.
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The Time-Travel Field Trip
Imagine your class takes a field trip, not to a museum or zoo, but a different time period.
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Temporal Carousel
Imagine yourself as a time-traveling character but with a peculiar twist – the time travel is random and uncontrollable.
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Journey Through Time
You’ve discovered a time machine and you have one chance to use it. Detail your journey through time and elaborate…
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Toy From Future
Describe a toy from the future. What does it look like, what can it do, and how do you play…
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Lost in Space-Time
A spaceship is lost in paradoxical loops of space-time and the crew members have to figure out how to escape.
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Time Warp Spaceships
Write a story in which a futuristic spaceship has the ability to manipulate time.
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The Temporal Love Letter
Your ship can use time travel to send letters, but not people, into the past.
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Temporal Collision
A collision with an unknown vessel leads to your ship traveling back in time every day.
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Fusions of Time and Space
Write a story where characters from different time-traveling series meet for the first time.
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Time Travel Consequences
Characters from the animated series have been thrown back in time and their actions have created an alternate timeline in…
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Time Warp Troubles
What happens when your favorite characters inadvertently stumble upon a time machine in their universe?
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Alternate Time Lords
Imagine a world where the Time Lords didn’t exist and a different species held the reigns of time travel.
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Fanfic Tropes
Pick a common fanfic trope and write about how and why it appeals to a fanfic audience.
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Time-Tossed Twins
Pen a tale about two twins— one with a tendency for drama and the other for comedy, who switch places…
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Time Travel Self
Imagine meeting a version of yourself five years from now. What changes would you see and how does it make…
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Tomorrowland Time Travel
If you could time travel to any event in the future, when would you go and what would you experience…
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“Unwanted Time Traveller”
You’ve suddenly been granted the ability to time travel, but you can only go back to your most embarrassing moments.…
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Time-Travelling Dirigible
Write about a group of intrepid adventurers navigating time in their steam-powered airship.
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Chrono Tourist
Imagine you’ve just acquired the ability to time travel and can visit any historical event you wish.
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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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Jumping Through Time
Imagine you had the power to travel through time: where would you go, who would you meet and why?
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Time Cocoon
You find a device that can transport you three days into the future. How would you use it?
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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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“Magical Powers”
Imagine you were granted one magical power for a day, write about how you would use it for those 5…
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Time Travel Misadventures
Imagine going back in time and committing a funny faux pas. What historic event do you disrupt, and how do…
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Transcendental Family Heirloom
Write a story about a family heirloom that has the ability to transport whoever holds it to different times or…