Creative Writing Boxes

Each Ink & Insights box is a creative writing experience in disguise - part story, part prompt, part mystery. Inside, you’ll find a collection of letters, documents, photos, and strange artefacts designed to feel like the remnants of another world, waiting for you to uncover what happened.

How to Use Your Box

This isn’t a workbook. It’s a world.

Inside your box, you’ll find letters, photographs, strange documents and artefacts - fragments of a story scattered across time. Some feel real. Some feel wrong. All of them are waiting for you to put the pieces together.

If you’re a writer, use it to spark a short story, shape a novel, or climb out of a creative block with something you can touch.
If you’re a teacher, bring the whole thing into your classroom - use it as a writing hook, group activity, or creative mystery that builds over time.
If you’re just curious, explore it slowly. Read the pieces out loud. Do it with a friend and see what story they find.

You can follow a single prompt or build something bigger.
You can journal, create characters, string together the clues on your bedroom wall.
There’s no right way. No wrong interpretation. No answer. No single ending.

The only rule?

Let the ink flow.

Future Collections

  • Sepia-toned vintage photograph of a person in profile wearing a hat, placed on aged paper on a wooden table with a lit candle.

    The Victoriana Collection: Uncover secrets in the fog-drenched streets of 1880s London, where letters, missing persons, and séance rituals blur the line between the living and the dead.

  • Vintage festival invitation for The Longlight Festival in a wooden box surrounded by dried flowers, a candle, bound letters, and a bundle of feathers on a wooden table.

    The Kindling Collection: Step into a remote English village shaped by ritual, firelight, and a festival older than memory. When the Longlight burns, for one family everything changes

  • Vintage anatomy illustration of a human skeleton surrounded by a candle, skull, dried roots, aged paper with sketches, old books, and a pen on a dark plaid surface, creating a mysterious and antique atmosphere.

    The Resurrection Collection: Step into the shadowed alleys of Edinburgh, where whispers of anatomy, ambition, and the dead that don’t stay buried linger in the air. When science and secrecy collide, some bodies are never laid to rest.

  • A vintage box containing two postcards, one depicting a coastal scene with a house and ship, the other showing a carousel by the seaside. Surrounding the box are assorted seashells and dried grass on a textured fabric background.

    The Drift Collection: Our first YA box drifts into a forgotten coastal town, where grief hangs heavy and strange messages appear without warning.

  • A top-down view of a table with a gas mask, headphones, a poster saying 'Silence is Survival', bullets, old papers, and vintage notebooks, creating a post-apocalyptic theme.

    The Silent Directive: In a future ruled by fear, words are dangerous and silence is survival. This dystopian collection explores control, rebellion, and the quiet power of resistance. What will you risk to be heard?

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Frequently asked questions

  • A creative resource filled with mysterious printables, story fragments, and immersive inspiration - each box is designed to spark storytelling through atmosphere, not instruction.

  • Not at all. You can explore it like a mystery, pick one piece to inspire a poem, or build an entire novel. There is no single “story” - the experience is yours to shape.

  • Yes! Whether you’re new to writing or a seasoned storyteller, the prompts and documents are open-ended and accessible. These boxes are about creativity, not perfection.

  • Just a pen, a notebook, and your imagination. Some people use them in junk journals or scrapbooks or map out the prompts, but they’re equally powerful for just sitting down and writing or even classroom use.

  • Due to the nature of the prompts the current collections are designed for teens and adults, who enjoy creative writing, immersive fiction, or getting lost in a good mystery.

    That said we do have more boxes in development and some of them will be suitable for younger writers.

  • No two people interpret the boxes the same way. There are clues and contradictions, and you might decide some things are red herrings. How you connect the pieces is entirely up to you. There’s no official ending, no single answer. That’s the point. You’re not solving a puzzle, you’re building a world.