Historical Fiction Writing Prompts

You wanted a big tiddy goth gf. What you got was an ancient East Germanic warrior princess.

An experienced slave merchant secretly slips into auctions to buy the most downtrodden slaves at bargain prices, fixes them up, improves their looks and behaviour, then resells them for top dollar prices. Her merchandise is known to be the best in the business.

During the height of the British empire you are placed in charge of a remote island in the South Pacific, with little oversight you decide to turn it into your own little depraved utopia.

As an immortal being who's been kicking around for several hundred years, there's something familiar about the rebellion's plan to bring down the oppressive regime they're fighting against...

At some point, the pirate captain had told her crew that they could fuck her anytime for a hundred gold... She hadn't anticipated how flush this most recent plunder would make them...

Your local renaissance fair also has a period-appropriate brothel.

As an immortal, you found out that that someone has written an historical romance novel of two of your friends from 200 years ago. You're reading through it to see what they got wrong and what they got right.

A professional archer from the Olympics gets transported into a field full of live bison 2000 years ago. The native tribes desperately hunt with hand-made wooden bow and arrows but their aim is terrible and their lack of skills are making the tribe go hungry

You spend all your money and sell all your possessions so you can party like crazy before Y2K and then on January 1st 2000, nothing happens.

You reminiscence about your childhood when you and your brother were competing on who would become a knight first. The sound of the horn brings you back to reality as you face your brother on the enemy side of the battlefield and you think yourself, "how did it get to this point".

“We’re supposed to figure out whatever the hell was going on in the 20th and 21st century through just ONE person’s phone? Are you serious?”

Describe the journey of a comely commoner (boy or girl) as they are molded and trained into a well-known and expensive courtesan/courtier sought after by lords, kings, and queens alike from across all lands.

You live in the 1600s when witches were being burned at the stake. But, unlike the women that were burned, you have magical powers and are a witch. You try to avoid detection, while trying to save the women, all the while feeling guilty that the actual witch gets to live while innocents die

You have spent weeks embedding yourself in a secret society in the capital city on suspicion of movement against the king. You’ve finally gained access to their secret base of operations and…what on earth is a “speakeasy”?

Write me a poem about your 1800s European nation going to war, and it gets less enthusiastic and less optimistic as it goes along.

The king ordered each house of the nobility to send their eldest child to war to help defend the kingdom. When the heir of a noble house is about to be drafted their maid raises her voice: "Let them go! As firstborn of this family the duty to go to arms is mine."

He told himself that this was the year. He was going to woo the bar maiden at the Renaissance Fair. Hell, he was dressed as a nobleman, he might as well at like one!

You were born in Ancient times with a deformity that allowed you to perceive the fourth dimension. With this deformity you’ve learned a lot of this… sadly it’s also caused you to have mannerisms that are not common for the next 13 centuries.

A zombie apocalypse broke out on the Roman empire era

She arrived in the city as no more than a pleasure slave, now she's the head mistress of the most luxurious brothel in town. Tell us her journey.

You are a scribe in Alexandria, tasked with copying a recently discovered scroll containing an account of a lost civilization. As you decipher the text, you begin to suspect it might be a warning from the future.

The year is 1954. You have just discovered the existence of something called a “blow job.” You simply must write a letter to your friend back home about the wondrous things you’re learning at college!

It was only once the ship waa far out to sea that the Captain discovered the rest of the crew were women dresses as men

As part of a documentary you're filming about the 70s, you interview a former groupie. A lot of the interview has to be cut for sexual explicitness.