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Best Adults Writing Prompts

Join our ongoing contests and win up to $1,500. Flex those creative muscles with these writing prompts.

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This week's contest:
Win $250

Love is in the Air

150 contest entries /
68 stories

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Closes at 23:59 - Feb 20 EST

Write about a character whose love language is making food for others.

– 36 stories

Write about someone who needs to face their past in order to move forward.

– 73 stories

Write a story where someone finds comfort in an unexpected event, place, or person.

– 56 stories

Your character checks their balance at an ATM and is surprised by the number they see.

– 31 stories

Start your story with a character accepting a bribe.

– 48 stories

Start your story with a couple sharing a cigarette in a parking lot.

– 63 stories

Write about two characters who both want what the other has, without knowing the feeling is mutual.

– 26 stories

Write a story about someone who keeps being cast as the hero but is actually a villain (literally or metaphorically).

– 20 stories

Start your story during a team building exercise.

– 17 stories

Start your story with the arrival of a new person in a town full of gossips.

– 40 stories

Start your story with the line ‘Back in my day…’

– 27 stories

Start or end your story with a character scrolling (or doomscrolling) through social media.

– 14 stories

Write a story about a character who interprets people’s dreams.

– 18 stories

Frame your story as an adult recalling the events of their childhood.

– 242 stories

Write a story about a character who’s nervous to attend a party - their first in a long time.

– 155 stories

Write a story about an ordinary person speaking truth to power.

– 67 stories

Write a cautionary fable about someone who always lies.

– 116 stories

Start your story with the line, “That’s the thing about this city…”

– 282 stories

Write about two characters who’ve gone through something so intense they now feel like family.

– 189 stories

Write about someone whose job is to help people leave their old lives behind.

– 244 stories

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