Creative storytelling prompts for impromptu speaking
These ask you to invent rather than report. Finish a story from its first line, sell a product that does not exist, give a speech as the last cookie on the plate. Commit to the premise in your first sentence and the audience will follow you anywhere for two minutes.
Draw one at random140 topics in this category. Press Practice next to any topic to load it into the timer.
- Continue this story: The elevator stopped between floors, and a voice said, "Finally, we have time to talk."MediumPractice
- Continue this story: Every book in the library had the same last page, and today someone finally noticed.HardPractice
- Continue this story: The package on the doorstep was addressed to the person I used to be.HardPractice
- Continue this story: At exactly four in the morning, every clock in town began running backward.HardPractice
- Continue this story: She opened the umbrella indoors, and it started raining outside.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: The map showed a street that nobody in the city had ever walked down.HardPractice
- Continue this story: The bakery baked a fortune into every loaf, and mine read like a warning.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: He inherited a key, a bus ticket, and a note that said do not be late.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: The garden gnome had moved three feet closer to the door overnight.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: The radio played a song that had not been written yet.HardPractice
- Continue this story: On the museum's last day, one painting refused to come off the wall.HardPractice
- Continue this story: My neighbor knocked and asked if I could keep a secret for exactly one hour.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: The train announced a stop that appeared on no schedule anywhere.HardPractice
- Continue this story: The photo in the frame changed a little every time we walked past it.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: A stranger handed me a phone and said, "It's for you, and they have waited long enough."MediumPractice
- Continue this story: The soup tasted exactly like a memory I had never actually had.HardPractice
- Continue this story: We found a door in the basement, and the doorknob was warm.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: The last plant in the office started leaving us notes.MediumPractice
- Continue this story: The lighthouse blinked in a pattern that spelled out one clear word.HardPractice
- Continue this story: Nobody remembered building the treehouse, yet there it stood, fully furnished.HardPractice
- Give a speech as the last cookie on the tray at a crowded party.EasyPractice
- Speak as a traffic light that has watched the same corner for thirty years.EasyPractice
- Give a speech as an umbrella left behind in a cafe for an entire summer.EasyPractice
- Deliver a farewell address as a pair of shoes finally being retired.EasyPractice
- Speak as the shopping cart with one wobbly wheel, defending your reputation.EasyPractice
- Give a speech as a refrigerator door reporting what the magnets have witnessed.MediumPractice
- Speak as a sock that has waited a full year in the drawer for its match.EasyPractice
- Give a speech as the last pencil in a jar full of pens.EasyPractice
- Address the crowd as a park bench on the morning you are being replaced.EasyPractice
- Speak as a suitcase that has never once left the closet.EasyPractice
- Give a speech as a doorbell explaining exactly why you rang at two in the morning.MediumPractice
- Speak as an old wooden spoon handing down wisdom to a brand new kitchen gadget.EasyPractice
- Give a speech as a streetlamp that flickers only when someone nearby is thinking hard.MediumPractice
- Speak as a library book returned twenty years late, and explain where you have been.EasyPractice
- Deliver a locker's opening remarks on the first day of the school year.MediumPractice
- Speak as the office printer, announcing your terms for future cooperation.EasyPractice
- Speak as a snowman laying out your ambitious plans for the coming warm week.EasyPractice
- Give a speech as a bicycle bell describing the finest ride of your life.EasyPractice
- Speak as a house key that has opened four different front doors.MediumPractice
- Give a speech as a kite explaining what the wind is really like up there.EasyPractice
- Give a speech as the tooth fairy's newest trainee on your very first night of work.MediumPractice
- Speak as the person who paints the lines on sports fields, and defend the craft.EasyPractice
- Address the room as the mayor of a town with one traffic circle and strong feelings about it.MediumPractice
- Give a speech as the lighthouse keeper's cat, describing your daily duties.MediumPractice
- Speak as the understudy who is finally going on stage tonight.EasyPractice
- Give the welcome tour as guide of a museum devoted entirely to ordinary objects.MediumPractice
- Speak as the referee of a sport you just invented, explaining a wildly unpopular call.HardPractice
- Give a speech as the mapmaker who left one island off the map on purpose.HardPractice
- Speak as a weather forecaster on a planet where something very unusual falls from the sky.MediumPractice
- Address a crowd as the proud inventor of the world's least useful machine.MediumPractice
- Give a speech as the night guard of a museum where nothing has ever gone missing.MediumPractice
- Speak as the town's official keeper of lost things on your busiest day of the year.MediumPractice
- Give a speech as a dragon applying for a steady job heating a neighborhood bakery.MediumPractice
- Speak as the first person ever to taste a food that is now on every table.MediumPractice
- Sell us a jar of bottled patience, and be clear about the dosage.EasyPractice
- Sell us an alarm clock that wakes you only with good news.EasyPractice
- Pitch a subscription box that delivers one small mystery every month.MediumPractice
- Sell us shoes that quietly warn you when you are walking the wrong direction.EasyPractice
- Sell us a pillow that saves your best dreams for later replay.EasyPractice
- Pitch an app that translates what a pet is thinking, awkward results included.MediumPractice
- Sell us an umbrella that opens only when you genuinely need it.EasyPractice
- Sell us a mirror that shows you at ten years younger, mid-conversation.MediumPractice
- Pitch a paint color that shifts with the mood of the room it is in.MediumPractice
- Sell us a notebook that flatly refuses to record a bad idea.MediumPractice
- Sell us a lunchbox that packs itself according to the day you are about to have.EasyPractice
- Pitch a bicycle that pedals harder whenever the rider sings.MediumPractice
- Sell us a doorbell that greets every guest with a theme song written just for them.EasyPractice
- Sell us glasses that name every plant, bird, and cloud you look at.MediumPractice
- Pitch a chair designed specifically for people who cannot sit still.MediumPractice
- Sell us a suitcase that packs itself and argues about what you truly need.MediumPractice
- Sell us ten minutes of pure silence in a can.EasyPractice
- Pitch a spoon that announces the exact moment the soup is perfect.MediumPractice
- Invent a holiday marking the end of a very long project, and describe its traditions.EasyPractice
- Invent a holiday where everyone uses their weaker hand all day, and explain the ceremonies.MediumPractice
- Invent a national day for lost socks, and describe the parade in detail.EasyPractice
- Invent a holiday for thanking the people who fix things, with a signature meal.EasyPractice
- Invent a festival that celebrates the first genuinely cold morning of the year.MediumPractice
- Invent a holiday on which nobody is allowed to hurry, and explain how that is enforced.MediumPractice
- Invent a yearly celebration of songs that were never finished.HardPractice
- Invent a holiday honoring whoever finishes second, and describe the trophy.EasyPractice
- Invent a festival in which every household trades one object with a neighbor.MediumPractice
- Invent a holiday built around the quietest hour of the year, and say how people spend it.HardPractice
- Narrate the final thirty seconds of a championship played entirely on staircases.HardPractice
- Describe a sport in which the ball is a paper airplane, then call the winning throw.MediumPractice
- Explain the rules of a team sport played in a library where silence is mandatory.MediumPractice
- Narrate the last lap of a race where every competitor runs deliberately backward.HardPractice
- Describe the halftime show of a sport that has not been invented yet.MediumPractice
- Explain how points are scored in a sport whose field changes shape every five minutes.HardPractice
- Narrate the moment an underdog team wins the world championship of competitive napping.EasyPractice
- Describe a sport played by two people passing one balloon all the way across a city.HardPractice
- Explain the rules of a race in which the slowest competitor takes the prize.MediumPractice
- Narrate the opening ceremony of the very first Kitchen Olympics.MediumPractice
- Explain the rules of a board game where every player is secretly the referee.HardPractice
- Explain the rules of a card game that can only be played during a thunderstorm.MediumPractice
- Explain the rules of a playground game invented by someone who hates running.MediumPractice
- Explain the rules of a game where the goal is to lose your pieces as quickly as possible.HardPractice
- Teach us a game that can only be played on a long ride among strangers.EasyPractice
- Explain the rules of a game whose board is the room you are standing in right now.MediumPractice
- Teach a game that takes exactly one minute and changes friendships forever.MediumPractice
- Explain the rules of a game in which players may speak only in questions.HardPractice
- Explain a game where the audience, not the players, decides who wins.HardPractice
- Teach us the game your grandparents supposedly invented, and why it got banned at dinner.MediumPractice
- Deliver a toast at the retirement party for a very old family car.EasyPractice
- Deliver a toast celebrating a group project that very nearly fell apart.EasyPractice
- Give a toast honoring a houseplant that has survived three moves and one long vacation.EasyPractice
- Deliver a toast at the grand opening of a shop that sells exactly one item.EasyPractice
- Give a toast at the reunion of people who once got lost in the same forest.MediumPractice
- Deliver a toast to the neighbor whose dog somehow knows everybody's name.EasyPractice
- Give a toast at a banquet for the world's most patient help desk.MediumPractice
- Deliver a toast at the farewell dinner for a bridge that is being replaced.MediumPractice
- Give a toast at a ceremony honoring whoever first bent a wire into a paper clip.MediumPractice
- Deliver a toast to a recipe that took twenty tries to finally get right.EasyPractice
- Describe a creature that lives only at the corner of your eye, and explain its habits.HardPractice
- Describe a town where every building leans the same way, and tell us why.MediumPractice
- Invent an origin myth explaining why the sky changes color at the end of the day.HardPractice
- Invent a folk tale explaining why keys hide precisely when you are running late.MediumPractice
- Describe how a museum five hundred years from now will display today's kitchen sponge.HardPractice
- Accept an award for a talent that has not been invented yet.MediumPractice
- Describe a room in which every single object is exactly one size too large.EasyPractice
- Invent a brand new season between two existing ones, with its own clothes and food.HardPractice
- Announce the discovery of a new color, and tell us how it feels to see it.HardPractice
- Describe a restaurant whose menu adjusts to how your week has actually gone.EasyPractice
- Invent a bedtime story for a robot who cannot fall asleep.HardPractice
- Report live from the scene as the world's largest sandwich is assembled.EasyPractice
- Describe the neighborhood inside a snow globe on a day when nobody shakes it.HardPractice
- Invent a machine that converts leftover time into something useful, trade-offs included.HardPractice
- Describe a library whose shelves rearrange themselves depending on who walks in.HardPractice
- Introduce a brand new instrument to the orchestra and describe its sound in words.HardPractice
- Deliver the acceptance speech of a plant that has just been named gardener of the year.MediumPractice
- Announce the opening of a hotel where every room has its own private weather.MediumPractice
- Describe the last note an explorer wrote just before discovering something delightful.HardPractice
- Invent a superstition that an entire city follows, and explain how it got started.HardPractice
- Describe the annual meeting of every person who shares your first name.EasyPractice
- Narrate a scene where two strangers get stuck in a revolving door and become friends.MediumPractice
- Invent a new word for a common feeling and argue that dictionaries need it.MediumPractice
- Describe a shop that sells second-hand hobbies, and what is on the shelves today.MediumPractice
- Tell us the legend of the mountain that hums one single note each year.HardPractice
- Write an instruction manual, out loud, for being a good houseguest on another planet.MediumPractice
- Describe in detail what your shadow gets up to while you are asleep.MediumPractice
- Give a speech as a navigation voice that has been ignored for the tenth time today.EasyPractice
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