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Best Dialogue 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

What Goes Bump in the Night?

46 contest entries /
10 stories

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Write a story that only consists of dialogue.

– 48 stories

Write a story that includes the line “What time is it?”

– 69 stories

Write a story with the line "I didn’t mean that” or “I’ve said too much.”

– 36 stories

Write a story in the form of a landline phone conversation.

– 73 stories

Write a story in which two or more people have a conversation — without using any quotation marks.

– 36 stories

Start or end your story with a character asking a question.

– 70 stories

Write a story that solely consists of dialogue. (No dialogue tags, actions, or descriptions. Just pure dialogue!)

– 174 stories

Write a story that includes the line, "I didn't see that one coming."

– 39 stories

Write a story that includes the line, "Is nobody going to say it?".

– 81 stories

Write a story that contains the line, "I wish we could stay here forever."

– 86 stories

Write a story in which someone can only hear one side of a conversation and must piece together the meaning of what they’ve heard.

– 37 stories

Write a story in which someone is afraid of being overheard.

– 62 stories

Write a story that includes the phrase “It’s all fun and games…”

– 54 stories

Write a story including the line “I can’t say it.”

– 54 stories

Write a story in which a conversation takes place where the true subject is only implied.

– 38 stories

Write a story that includes someone saying, “You can’t run forever.”

– 64 stories

Start or end your story with someone saying, “We have all the time in the world.”

– 67 stories

Start your story with someone uttering a very strange sentence.

– 50 stories

Write a story that includes someone saying, “You’ve got this.”

– 52 stories

Start your story with a character walking through a desert landscape, when they stumble across something unexpected. “That shouldn’t be there,” they muse.

– 49 stories

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