Time Travel writing prompts
Time travel works best with one strict rule. Pick a prompt, agree on the rule in the first round, and watch your group try to break it.
- A widow is given one phone call to her past self and uses it to argue.
- Two scientists invent time travel on the same day, ten years apart.
- A historian travels back to witness the moon landing and finds it was not televised.
- A teenager's grandmother appears in her bedroom wearing a school uniform.
- Every Friday a man wakes up one day younger and his daughter is starting to notice.
- A pilot's transponder shows her flight took off last Tuesday.
- The time machine works. The destination is taken.
- A boy receives a postcard from himself, from the day he dies.
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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