Unorganized Writers Archive

mystery writing prompts

• someone keeps replacing items in your home with different objects that look vaguely familiar. No one eles has a key to your home, and there are no signs of forced entry.
• you don’t remember wandering alone on a country road as a small child, but someone does, and he wants to make sure you’re not around to testify against him.
• a travelling bard keeps meeting people on the roads and asking them to critique their new song. The lyrics contain references to events in the people’s lives that no one should logically know about.
• every month, a mysterious man comes into the village mead hall and plays a few songs on his lute. He never says a word to anyone. If asked, the bartender says this mysterious man has been coming in for decades. Many people in town suspect that he is the ghost of a traveller on the road who met his tragic end. What do you think?
• he still was not dead.
• some creatures speak only in riddles, and answering wrong binds your soul to them forever

Lyrics that can be used as prompts

• “your beauty never really scared me” – Mary on a cross
• “Awaken by the sound Of a screaming owl Chasing leaves in the wind Going where we've never been Said goodbye to you my friend As the fire spread All that's left are your bones” – Your Bones
• “I love you & if you want I'll call you king but why do I lie awake each night thinking instead of you, it should be me? something wicked this way comes & as I set to face it I'm unsure should I embrace it, should I run?” – Brutus
• “I'm gonna burn my house down into an ugly Black I'm gonna run away now and never look back.” – ECHO
• “i’m out of my head of my heart and my mind cause you can run but you can’t hide i’m gonna make you mine” – The Wolf
  -”I want to be deceived! - This pure inocent little fucker won’t be obedient forever.” - 孤独の宗教 歌ってみた／宮下遊 lonely religion
• “And when her work is complete, her masterpiece on a stage You will clap for her, for the mess of me she’s made” – Muse
• "Want you to take my breath and merge your own .
  And walk into my open bones .
  Found my body, welcome home .
  We’ve been waiting for you for so long ." - Wet
  Note: (obsession, repulsion, sex or aliens, i wouldn't know, anyway, cool as fuck)