50 Creative Writing Prompts for the Modern World On hot topics like iPhones, social media, politics, technology, and your dream job.A note for teachers: The following writing prompts are meant to get your students thinking critically about our fast-moving, rapidly evolving, complicated world and their greater role in this world. There are 10 prompts for each of 5 larger themes: cell phones, the media, technology, politics, and jobs/careers. Questions are presented vaguely and in an open-ended m