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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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Start your story with someone walking into a gas station.

– 49 stories

Set your story on a film or TV set, starting with someone calling “Cut!”

– 45 stories

Write a story during which two conversations happen simultaneously.

– 28 stories

Write a story that includes the phrase “I’m free!”

– 59 stories

Write a story that includes the phrase “Maybe in another life.”

– 73 stories

Write a story that includes the phrase “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

– 27 stories

Write a story inspired by the phrase “I’ll eat my hat.”

– 18 stories

Write a story containing the words “it’s the thought that counts.”

– 45 stories

Write a story that includes someone saying, “I feel alive.”

– 67 stories

Start a story that begins with a character saying “Speak now.”

– 86 stories

Write a story that starts with the line “So, what’s the catch?”

– 95 stories

Write a story entirely of dialogue. Nothing but dialogue. No attributives (he said, she said, etc.). No descriptions of scenes or gestures or movements (unless these things are presented in the dialogue). Just words between quotation marks. Pure, beautiful, untainted dialogue.

– 274 stories

Start a story with someone saying, “It’s mine, and you can’t have it!”

– 25 stories

Start your story with someone saying “Houston, we have a problem.”

– 40 stories

Write a story about someone who is cursed to always say the opposite of what they mean.

– 25 stories

Write a story that includes someone saying, “Let’s go for a walk.”

– 70 stories

Write a story about two or more characters who don't speak each other's language (literally or metaphorically), but still find a way to communicate.

– 54 stories

Write a story that includes someone saying, “Thank you for that.”

– 46 stories

Start your story with the line “I’ve got a plan”.

– 59 stories

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