Every month, Switch-Lit releases new story prompts to help launch your next collaborative fiction journey. You can find them on the Switch-Lit “Prompts” page, or revisit our full archive of prompts here on Substack.
This month’s theme: Waves
There are many types of waves in this world – oceanic, mathematical, emotional, electromagnetic, and many others – but they all move in a back-and-forth fashion that can go on forever. Waves contain rhythms, sounds, and meaning that will nearly hypnotize us… and I hope that these prompts inspire your stories to do the same.
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– Ken
S••L Editor
Prompt 1
The autobiography of a tsunami wave.
by Switch-Lit
Prompt 2
In the park, I picked up a broken stick, gave it a wave, and pretended to cast a spell before tossing it back on the ground.
by Switch-Lit
Prompt 3
Sitting around the campfire, a wave of temporary blindness overcame the wedding party.
by Switch-Lit
Prompt 4
The invention of a breakthrough recording device leads to the discovery of a new sound wave – Omega – with supernatural properties.
by Switch-Lit
Prompt 5
Write a story or poem that ends with this dialogue: “Because waves don’t die.”
by Switch-Lit