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Join our ongoing contests and win up to $1,500. Flex those creative muscles with these writing prompts.

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Set your story during a total eclipse — either natural, or man-made.

– 68 stories

Begin or end your story with a character taking a selfie.

– 32 stories

Write about a character who sees a photo they shouldn’t have seen.

– 62 stories

Write a story about a character who risks their life to take a photo.

– 38 stories

Start your story with a character staring at a picture they don’t remember taking.

– 69 stories

Center your story around a photo that goes viral.

– 29 stories

Write a story where time functions differently to our world.

– 41 stories

Write a story about a character who wakes up in space.

– 46 stories

Write a story from the point of view of a non-human character.

– 113 stories

Write a story with a strong sense of place. How is the setting of your world the same as, but different to, our own?

– 47 stories

Write a story imagining 'what if' one historic invention had never happened. How would our world be different now?

– 24 stories

Start or end your story with a character who gets trapped inside a museum overnight.

– 35 stories

Write about two characters who meet and/or fall in love in a museum.

– 93 stories

Write about an art thief who is struggling to commit the perfect heist.

– 29 stories

Write about someone who accidentally destroys a museum’s most valuable artifact.

– 30 stories

Write about a gallery whose paintings come alive at night.

– 60 stories

Write about a backstabbing (literal or metaphorical) gone wrong.

– 41 stories

Start your story with an unexpected betrayal.

– 76 stories

Set your story at a tense event where everyone is unsure whose side they’re on.

– 23 stories

Write about someone who is stuck between two opposing sides and can’t decide which one to choose.

– 46 stories

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