463+ ‘Travel’ Writing Prompts
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Journey to Mars
Imagine being selected for the first manned mission to Mars. Write about your experiences and emotions.
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Alternate Universe Travel Log
Write a series of captain’s diary entries as their spaceship inadvertently traverses various alternate universes.
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Journey to Outer Space
You’ve been selected to join a crew of astronauts on a mission to a distant planet. Describe this new planet and your experiences there.
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Travel through Time
You’ve just hopped into a time machine. Describe your journey to a different era and how you adapt to a new (or old) way of life.
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Summer Vacation Trip
Write a tale about an extraordinary summer vacation journey to a destination of your choice.
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Seasonal Sensorium
Write about the smells, sounds, tastes, textures, and sights that you associate with each season.
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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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Tomorrow’s Time-traveler
You invent a time machine but it can only travel 24 hours into the future. Write about what you discover and how it affects your present day decisions.
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Mission Mars
You are part of the first group of kids selected to colonize Mars. Write about your journey and new life on the red planet.
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Space-Time Traveller
Write a story about a kid who has the ability to travel across space and time.
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Lost in Space-Time
Imagine you accidentally invented a time machine and got stuck in a different era. How do you get back home?
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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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Roads of Winter
Write about a journey, real or imagined, that takes place on an icy, salt-and-grit covered road.
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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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Interdimensional North Pole
Consider the North Pole not as an earthly place, but as part of a different dimension only accessible on Christmas Eve.
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Peaceful Dracula
Rewrite Dracula’s story as a reluctant vampire seeking a cure for his condition in the 21st century.
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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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Delia’s Time-Traveling Dentures
Imagine a sweet old grandmother’s dentures have an uncanny ability to transport her to any place or time she fancies to chew on.
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Travel Device Adventures
Write about a transportation device you’ve invented that takes you on an extraordinary journey.
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Time-traveling Encounter
Write a story about going back in time to witness a historical event or meet a historical figure.
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The Wild Wilderness of Space
You’re an astronaut preparing for a mission to explore a new planet. Write about your experience.
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Wondrous World Traveler
Write a travelogue of a trip to your dream destination, focusing on the use of prepositions in your descriptions.
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The Last Refuge
Earth is no longer liveable, and humanity’s only hope for survival rest on an interstellar ark voyaging to a distant, habitable planet.
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Planetary GuideBook
Assume you are the first human to set foot on a newly discovered planet. Write a travelers guide that describes your experiences and explorable sites.
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The Time Traveler’s Memoir
Write a travelogue detailing your experiences when you travel back in time to a particular era.
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Journey to a Fictional Place
Write a travelogue as if you have visited a place from your favorite book or film.
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The Time Dilation Dilemma
Write a story about space explorers experiencing the effects of time dilation, where time for them moves slower than for those on Earth.
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My Dream Journey
Write about a dream trip you want to take and talk about places you would visit, people you would meet, and things you would do.
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Vivid Vacation Memories
Write a detailed account of your most memorable vacation, bringing the destination to life through your words.
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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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Life on the Cosmic Ark
You’re part of a generation ship, a cosmic ark carrying the last of humanity to a new home planet. Explore your journey and the challenges you face.
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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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Back to the Future
Your protagonist begins to receive messages from an old friend who claims to have traveled into the future.
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Time-travel
Write about a time you wish you could go back to and the things you would have done differently.
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An Imaginary Window
Close your eyes and imagine a window that peers into any moment from your past. What do you see, and how does it make you feel?
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Road Less Travelled
Draft a poem from the perspective of a tired traveler who took the road less traveled.
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Time Recovery Agency
Pen a story about a secret agency responsible for maintaining the timeline, and a rogue agent who threatens it.
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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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Latin American Suitcase Ritual
Imagine and illustrate a scene where you partake in Latin America’s suitcase ritual for New Year’s Eve.
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Living in Letter-form
Write a letter to your future self outlining the progress you aim to make in the year ahead.
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Dream Destination
Envision a place you’d love to visit this year and describe your ideal experience there.
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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-turning Compass
Write a narrative featuring a compass that possesses the ability to bend time, enabling travel to any time at the whim of its wielder.
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Spring Break Savory Experiences
Narrate your experience trying out a local delicacy during your spring break holiday.
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The Best Vacation Spot
Convince your readers that your chosen vacation spot is the best destination they could go to.
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Journey Through Time
Choose a historical period that interests you, and imagine you had a time machine to visit that era. Write about your experiences.
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Time-Travel Trivia
A time machine can transport you into the past but always deposits you at the funniest historical moment. Explore the comic consequences of such journeys.
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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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New Year’s Eve Retrospect
Describe a New Year’s Eve tradition from your past and what it means to you now.
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Web of Deceivance
Develop a thrilling narrative of a travel reporter unearthing dark secrets behind a popular tourist destination.
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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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Around the World in Words
Write a travel story with a partner, where each student writes about one leg of the journey.
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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.