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Best Character 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

Lost, Then Found with A. Y. Chao

151 contest entries /
79 stories

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Closes at 23:59 - May 29 EST

Write about someone getting a second chance.

– 66 stories

Your protagonist returns to a place they swore they’d never go back to.

– 74 stories

Write from the POV of a pet or inanimate object. What do they observe that other characters don’t?

– 128 stories

Center your story around a long-distance relationship (familial, romantic, platonic, etc.).

– 39 stories

Include a scene in which a character is cooking, drinking, or eating.

– 85 stories

Include an unreliable narrator or character in your story.

– 34 stories

Center your story around a character who yearns for someone or something they’ve lost — or never had.

– 116 stories

Follow a character who’s looking for someone or something.

– 50 stories

Center your story on a character filled with love and fear in equal measure.

– 65 stories

A character finds a clue or object linking them to a stranger.

– 55 stories

Center your story around a character who is obsessed with an object.

– 58 stories

Write about someone who’s traveling away from their hometown for the first time.

– 51 stories

End your story with someone saying “I do.”

– 108 stories

Write a story from the POV of a plus-one.

– 47 stories

Start your story with people arriving at a special ceremony.

– 29 stories

Write a story in the form of a speech (or multiple speeches).

– 24 stories

Center your story around two people who meet at a wedding.

– 68 stories

Write the origin story of a notorious villain.

– 84 stories

Center your story around someone facing their biggest fear or enemy.

– 69 stories

Write about two mortal enemies who must work together.

– 27 stories

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