Dec '24 • Writing
Sports Fiction Writing Prompts
Fellow chroniclers of supernatural sportsmanship,
Your athletic anomalist returns with fresh impossibilities in our Writing Prompts section. For those who suspect there's more to the game than physics can explain, I've assembled a roster of sports stories that would make ESPN analysts question their reality.
Picture two high school basketball rivals discovering their inherited playbooks are mirror images, passed down through generations, containing plays that defy probability—each diagram a piece of a larger mystery neither family fully understands. Or consider an NFL equipment manager who notices players suddenly developing skills they never trained for after wearing certain "lucky" practice jerseys, their muscle memory somehow stored in thread-worn fabric.
I've drafted a catalogue of athletic impossibilities that blur the line between talent and supernatural. Because sometimes the most intriguing games begin when a figure skating coach realizes specific combinations of spins and jumps create ice patterns that mysteriously influence judges' scores—as if the routine itself is hypnotic.
A glimpse into these sporting enigmas:
• Ancient playbooks containing strategies that shouldn't be possible
• Practice jerseys that trade athletic abilities like trading cards
• Figure skating routines that bend perception itself
• The unsettling implications of all these sports being connected
• The more unsettling possibility that they're just the beginning
But these are merely the pregame warmups. The full playbook of athletic anomalies awaits our Society members—because the greatest games, like championship rings, come at a price.
*Where sports meet sorcery, legends are born.*
[Here's the referee-approved membership area: https://www.skool.com/the-tormented-writers-society/about]
Want to see what other impossible plays await? The Society's locker room is always open... for those ready to question the scoreboard.
Remember: In supernatural sports, breaking records sometimes means breaking reality.
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Sports Fiction Writing Prompts
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