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70 Adventure Writing Prompts for Teens: Plot Hooks, Characters, Settings & Story Starters

70 Adventure Writing Prompts for Teens: Plot Hooks, Characters, Settings & Story Starters

These adventure writing prompts for teens are designed to help students build exciting, purposeful stories driven by choice, risk, and consequence. This collection of 70 adventure writing prompts includes plot hooks, character ideas, settings, opening and closing lines, and picture prompts, giving writers structured support while still allowing creativity and originality. Suitable for middle and high school classrooms, these adventure writing prompts work well for creative writing lessons, warm-ups, independent projects, and extended narrative tasks. The prompts are flexible, classroom-safe, and ideal for developing story structure, tension, and character motivation across a wide range of adventure stories.

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