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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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Write about somebody who likes to work in silence.

– 25 stories

Write a story that includes one character reading aloud to another.

– 28 stories

Start or end your story with someone saying “You’ll never know unless you try.”

– 57 stories

End your story with a character saying “Thank you, God. Thanks an awful lot.” (sarcastically or not).

– 42 stories

Start your story with a character saying “Are you there, God? It’s me…”

– 108 stories

Start or end your story with the line ‘This is my worst nightmare.’

– 73 stories

Write a conversation that takes place between two people who refuse to say what they mean.

– 58 stories

Write a story told exclusively through dialogue.

– 344 stories

Write a story involving a conversation that’s packed with subtext; the characters aren’t quite saying what they mean.

– 75 stories

Write a story about an argument that seems to be about one thing, but is actually about another.

– 121 stories

Write a story about two strangers chatting while waiting for something.

– 195 stories

Write a story about two neighbors talking from their yards, windows, balconies, etc.

– 196 stories

Write a story told entirely through text messages or emails.

– 101 stories

Write a story about someone who receives an unexpected phone call.

– 63 stories

Write a short story about people stuck in traffic during a blizzard. There's nothing much to do but wait, and talk...

– 66 stories

Write a story about an ordinary day in a person's life. Use their internal dialogue to make the story interesting.

– 25 stories

Write a story that sets the stage through letters between two people.

Write a story that sets the stage through dialogue between two or more characters.

Every day when you get home, you rant to your pet about how awful your day was. One day they start talking back — to give you a dose of tough love.

Using only dialogue, write a short story about a first date, a reunion between old friends, an argument that gets heated, an adult explaining something to a child, or the reveal of a long-hidden secret.

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