We bet you’ve already seen that pumpkin-headed guy dancing in his black turtleneck all over your feeds. Yes, Halloween is quickly approaching, and it carries opportunities for thrilling creative endeavors. Exploring darker themes in your writing is one of them!
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Key Takeaways:
- The Halloween season is perfect for practicing and publishing your spooky creative writing.
- There’s a bottomless well of narrative tones and ideas for you to choose from online.
- Prompts are perfect for challenging yourself, and we can give them to you.
Halloween is, undoubtedly, the one American export nobody can fault. A heady mix of Old World peasant paganry and rich Native American folklore with glow-in-the-dark commercialism thrown over the top… It creates an American gothic aesthetic that pop culture just loves to explore. From Edgar Allan Poe’s sunken-eyed consumption chic to neon horror flicks of the 80s, we cannot get enough! Social media fuels this obsession, romanticizing fall like nobody’s business. You can pretend to dislike all the PSL-wielding, scarf-wrapped white ladies over on Instagram, but it’s okay to admit the truth: their posts put us all in the mood for seasonal activities. Be free. Go frolic across a pumpkin patch with a cup of cider. And once the endorphin spike hits, get to writing a boo-tiful Halloween-themed piece!
Where Do I Even Find A Halloween Writing Prompt?
Fall has long been inspiring artists of all mediums; everybody has heard of drawing challenges like Inktober or Octobit, where you’re supposed to make a drawing every day in October to fit the prompt. Events of this format can boost your online visibility and work your creative muscle by providing ideas you wouldn’t usually come up with. The writing community doesn’t lag behind. All the blogging platforms have some challenges going, which presents a perfect opportunity to share your creative writing. It’s the best time to publish a spooky story or a creepy article. Schools and colleges, too, will be lenient towards unusual paper topics; some might even assign them first!
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
— Stephen King
Now, as a grownup, where do you find Halloween writing prompts for adults? Halloween is such a rich vein to mine for ideas. As the recent true crime craze demonstrates, it’s okay to be interested in the macabre. Those shows are as popular as they are bone-chilling because they discuss some heavy stuff; we’re talking real mood killers. And not everyone wants to venture outside the glitter-speckled organza sector of the festivities. If that’s you, we suggest a more classy, insightful approach — journal writing. More “tasteful gourd arrangement”, less “barfing jack-o’-lantern”.
Halloween Journal Writing Prompts:
- What is an unexplainable experience you remember from your trick-or-treating days?
- When have you rediscovered the childlike whimsy of Halloween as an adult?
- If you could pick any other date in the year to hold the Halloween celebration, what would it be and why?
- What costume would you have put your younger self or your parents in if you could?
- What does a favorite Halloween candy say about a person? Be mean about it.
- Imagine you’re running a charity. How would you make Halloween magical for children with underprivileged backgrounds?
- Imagine you’re explaining Halloween to an alien. Conversely, imagine you’re an alien trying to “solve” this peculiar holiday on your own.
- Write a debate-style piece arguing that Halloween is better than Christmas.
- What do you miss (or don’t) the most about your childhood trick-or-treating experiences?
Remember: these are just suggestions. Feel free to modify them to fit your narrative. Our free online tools like AI Sentence Generator or Paragraph Expander can bop it-twist it-pull it whichever way you want. Give them parts of the prompt to rephrase or ask them to elaborate. Yes, academic tools can be creative, too!
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
― Shirley Jackson
Halloween Writing Prompts For Middle School Students
- What supernatural creature would each of your friends be and why?
- The talk around campus is that the pool is haunted. You know that it’s you who haunts it. Who are you?
- Write like you’re on stan Twitter, your fandom is Halloween, and the locals are trying to cancel it.
- Kiss, Marry, Kill: a vampire, a selkie, a demon.
- Write a concept for a TikTok-style ARG (alternative reality game).
- Which one of your teachers would survive a zombie apocalypse? Explain your choice.
- Your favorite character from the last video game you played or the last show you watched is your only ally during the end of the word. Are you pulling through?
- What type of mutant superpower would you have? You cannot pick the obvious ones like flying, super-speed, telekinesis, etc.
- Write a creepypasta that takes place in your Minecraft server.
- A centaur is half-horse, half-human. Imagine and describe a centaur made from classic Halloween monster parts!
- What other fruits or vegetables would you pick for carving instead of pumpkins?
If you’re still craving something more in terms of creative writing, we prepared something just for you. It’s a little challenge! In the best Inktober fashion, here we present a Halloween writing challenge by AHelp!
Ssssso, boils and ghouls, we’re so glad you could join us in the crypt this fine evening to discuss all the dark and mysterious fun a dedicated writer can have with a couple of words and an active imagination! Hope the danger stays only on paper for you, but the excitement follows you into the real world! Keep creating 👻🎃🦇✒️
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