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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:
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The Big Break with London Writers Centre

58 contest entries /
36 stories

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A character breaks a rule they swore they’d never break. What happens next?

– 57 stories

Write a story about a character who believes something that isn’t true.

– 157 stories

Write about someone arriving somewhere for the first or last time.

– 71 stories

Write about someone who must fit their whole life in one suitcase.

– 83 stories

Write about someone who strays from their daily life/routine. What happens next?

– 67 stories

Your protagonist faces their biggest fear… to startling results.

– 38 stories

Write about someone getting a second chance.

– 65 stories

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

– 73 stories

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

– 126 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.

– 84 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.”

– 107 stories

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

– 47 stories

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