Road Trip writing prompts

Road trips are box-sets. Pick a prompt, set the destination in the first round, and let each writer add a service-station stop the others didn't see coming.

  1. Two estranged sisters are driving their mother's ashes across the country and the urn keeps moving.
  2. A retired roadie agrees to drive his ex-wife to a wedding that turns out to be her own.
  3. Three friends discover their hire car has a fourth passenger.
  4. A father and daughter drive the same route every year and this year the route is different.
  5. A van full of strangers realises they are all going to the same village.
  6. A truck driver gives a lift to a hitchhiker who recognises him.
  7. The satnav starts giving directions to a place that doesn't exist anymore.
  8. The road trip ends back where it started a day before it began.

Write one of these together

Storybored is a turn-based story writing game for 2–4 players. Drop any prompt above into a new story, invite friends with a code, and write the next line each.

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