/r/WritingPrompts
Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.
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We are a subreddit dedicated to inspiring people to write! Find a prompt that moves you and respond with a story or a poem.
The subreddit where it's all made up and the points don't matter.
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Rules & Guidelines
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< 1. Prompt responses must be good-faith attempts at new stories/poems (No AI)
- 100 words minimum for stories, 30 for poems but include [Poem]
- Write something new using the prompt for inspiration (No AI)
- Plagiarism will result in a ban
- No joke, copypasta, or AI-generated responses
- For off topic/clarification, reply to sticky comment
< 2. No sexually explicit responses, hate speech, or other harmful content
- Includes, but is not limited to, pedophilia, bestiality, incest, rape, violence against children, and explicit abuse or torture
- Avoid racism and detailed uses of suicide, mental health stereotypes, and political debate
- Use your best judgment, but mods have final say
< 3. Be civil in discussion, feedback, and critiques
- Users are held to a higher standard here. Think before posting
- Prompts are meant to inspire new writing. Responses don't have to fulfill every detail
Submitting Posts
< 4. All submissions must be tagged at the beginning of the post, capitalized in square brackets
- Click [tag] to filter. Click » for more detail
- Prompt Posts (Inspire new writing)
WP- Writing Prompt: No restrictions (other than the rules of the sub) »SP- Simple Prompt: Max 100 characters in the title (including the tag) »EU- Established Universe: Based on existing fiction »CW- Constrained Writing: Limitations or forced usage of words, letters, etc. (don't ask for less than 100 words) »TT- Theme Thursday: Weekly themes announced Thursdays »MP- Media Prompt: Audio or video »IP- Image Prompt: A striking image or album »RF- Reality Fiction: Things that have happened or could happen to unknown people »- Response Posts (Write based on prompts)
PM- Prompt Me: Answer prompts by other users (if answered prompts before) »PI- Prompt Inspired: Stories inspired by prompts older than three days (include link and max 1 a day) »- Other Posts
OT- Off Topic: Not a prompt, but writing related, not for complaints regarding subreddit content, stories, or advertising without prior approval »
< 5. No recent reposts, even if changing small details
- Search before submitting! (Popular ideas can cause floods)
- Reposts are allowed, given time (around two weeks)
- Don't take a recent prompt and change/invert small details
< 6. Prompt users in the title, but don't play writing games or commission stories
- Prompt in the title and only use text for commentary or links for [IP]s and [MP]s. Avoid too many details
- No requesting writing or editing services, or homework help
- Don't post ads without getting permission in modmail first
- Don't ask writers to pick titles or content from another sub or site
- Prompts should not call for using autocorrect, autocomplete, or only emojis
< 7. Prompts will be removed if there's a high possibility for rule breaking responses
- Avoid real-world drama (politics, recent tragedies, etc.)
- Inspire an effort, avoid simple questions, "write anything", word games, fill-in-the-blanks, or "in X words or less"
- Prompts must actually be a prompt, not just the suggestion of a genre or emotion
- Don't ask for preexisting content (prompts are meant for new writing)
- No sexually explicit themes, hate speech, or other harmful content (suicide, mental health stereotypes, violence against children, torture, etc.)
- No troll, joke, poop, meme-based, or all CAPS prompts
Community Guidelines
< 8. Keep it about the writing here, not competing or making money
- Authors are allowed to link to a personal sub or profile, but don't link back here until the prompt is 24 hours old
- Patreon and Paypal links are not allowed. Link to your sub or profile instead
- Recording of other people's work must follow the guidelines in the FAQ.
Rule breaking posts or comments may be removed without notice. Rule breaking may result in a permanent ban without prior warning.
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/r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] Unbeknownst to both of them, the superhero and supervillain know each other when their costumes are off - as therapist and patient
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2024/04/15
20:10 UTC
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[WP] Turn out the powers you get during an isekai are very dependent on your personality and interests, being a diehard environmentalists in a magical fantasy world gave you abilities no one expected or was ready for
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2024/04/15
20:09 UTC
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[WP] "This week on 60 Minutes: Anderson Cooper sits down for an unprecedented interview with a deceased person in a first of its kind interview."
I've always wondered how it would play out if we somehow had the ability to interview someone from the dead. Even just an ordinary person would likely be the most watched TV event of all time.
2 Comments
2024/04/15
19:59 UTC
19:59 UTC
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[WP] Play a short game of chess against someone online. Link the game and write a short story based upon the events of the game.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:52 UTC
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[WP] You're a surgical resident. All you've ever dreamt of is performing a surgery as a lead surgeon. It's been four years and you're starting to wonder if that day will ever arrive.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:51 UTC
19:51 UTC
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[WP] In the wizard's final moments, he presses his thumb to his apprentice's forehead and forces all of his knowledge into their skull.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:38 UTC
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[WP] A certain bard once said that the best parties are started in taverns. A beginner adventurer decides to follow this advice…
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:37 UTC
19:37 UTC
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[WP] You represent your species for the test of advanced civilizations made by the inclusive diverse socialist republic of Earth in the galaxy, if you don't win the exam, your planet will be destroyed for being fascists. Not a single planet has ever won the gender theory assimilation test before.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:37 UTC
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[WP] So, it turns out that a most all habitable planets are usually one or two biomes. So aliens are utterly perplexed at the amount of diversity in Earth’s biomes and the diversity of humans.
2 Comments
2024/04/15
19:37 UTC
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[WP] A character discovers a hidden room in their house, but every time they enter, they experience vivid hallucinations of their deepest fears. How do they confront their inner demons and uncover the truth?
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:31 UTC
19:31 UTC
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[WP]Your an avid marble enthusiast, spending your free time perfecting your technique, training with a little rubber ball. You dream of entering the professional circuit and winning the Marble League Championship. Your hampered by the fact that you can't afford an official elemental marble.
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2024/04/15
19:31 UTC
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[EU] It’s finally happened. Lois has died. But, instead of flying off into space, or become a facist dictator, Clark decided to do something … different. With the help of a new friend he opened a new Kryptonian-American restaurant.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:30 UTC
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[WP] Within the most dangerous dungeon of the world there is a being which gives challenges to those who enter its domain, and should they succeed they are granted great riches. Many wonder about the true nature of the being, but in truth you are just bored and desire entertainment.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
19:21 UTC
19:21 UTC
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[WP] You're an ordinary person living an ordinary life. But your writingpromts have the power to touch souls. They tap into the universal consciousness and present themselves at the exact moment as somebody who's reading it is going through something similar.
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2024/04/15
19:07 UTC
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[WP]A Goddess of Blood gives birth to 16 Demigods. A Sorcerer, a Warrior, a Shaman, a Destroyer, a Hedonist, a Thief, a Savage, a King, a Healer, a Monk, a Hunter, a Conqueror, an Assassin, a Craftsman, a Necromancer and a Shapeshifter. She gives them portions of her Empire to rule as they see fit.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
18:58 UTC
18:58 UTC
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[WP] As a villain you have always tried to unmask the heroes, believing that knowing their identities would make it easier to defeat them once and for all. You would never have thought to see the face of your own child among them.
2 Comments
2024/04/15
18:47 UTC
18:47 UTC
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[WP] "Did you really think only demons can possess a person?"
6 Comments
2024/04/15
18:41 UTC
18:41 UTC
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[WP] Someone journeys to discover the pie rates of the Caribbean
1 Comment
2024/04/15
18:02 UTC
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[WP] The cloud spread across the world in days, turning every male in its’ path female and killing anyone born a woman. Without a way to reproduce the world went mad, leaving only the “changed” in this post-apocalyptic world. Until you found a small boy…
1 Comment
2024/04/15
17:44 UTC
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[SP] "I am now a Pirate."
2 Comments
2024/04/15
17:41 UTC
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[WP] A father with bad relationship with his young daughter swaps bodies with her freaky Friday style.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
17:31 UTC
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[WP] You are a human found and raised from infancy by aliens. Years later, your human biological parents appear and want you back.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
17:25 UTC
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[WP] They all questioned why a simple doctor from a far-off village was allowed to participate in the Adventure guild mass meeting. Let alone sit among the elites and elders. Only then did they find out why, and now they regret ever disrespecting him.
2 Comments
2024/04/15
17:16 UTC
17:16 UTC
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[WP] You have are working for this company where employees are destined to dies. Each team you are placed in dies and you are learning how to cope.
2 Comments
2024/04/15
16:49 UTC
16:49 UTC
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[WP] a man holds a building hostage because he is able to hold onto fire.
2 Comments
2024/04/15
16:48 UTC
16:48 UTC
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[WP] You went to the grocery looking for sausages, and you asked the butcher for the hottest sausages he could sell you. Now you're standing in a secret vault hidden deep under the store while he completes some kind of arcane ritual to unlock the final seal.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
16:48 UTC
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[WP] Everyone know the goatee means the person comes from the evil universe but what universe would other facial hair come from
4 Comments
2024/04/15
16:38 UTC
16:38 UTC
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[WP] A snake oil type charlatan markets the cure to all diseases and ailments. Then it actually starts working.
1 Comment
2024/04/15
16:16 UTC
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[WP] You, a shapeshifting child, are being raised by a depressed 20-year-old man, but lately he’s been getting more depressed and started staying in his room all alone.
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2024/04/15
15:46 UTC
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[WP] The Great Intergalactic Race: the Galaxy’s favorite sport where racers from all corners of the Galaxy compete to see who can win the Galactic Cup. Each race is run on a different planet, which is randomly selected by the Galactic Federation. For the next race, that planet is Earth…
1 Comment
2024/04/15
15:26 UTC
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