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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 a story that includes change or transformation.

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

– 68 stories

Start your story with an interruption to an event (e.g., wedding, party, festival).

– 36 stories

Your protagonist faces their biggest fear… to startling results.

– 40 stories

Set your story over the course of just a few seconds or minutes.

– 96 stories

Write a story that goes against your reader’s expectations.

– 95 stories

Write about someone getting a second chance.

– 67 stories

End your story with someone saying “I love you” or “I do.”

– 64 stories

Write about two characters who have a love/hate relationship.

– 28 stories

Include a first or last kiss in your story.

– 77 stories

Write a story about love without using the word “love.”

– 107 stories

Write about a character who runs into someone they once loved.

– 70 stories

Include the words “Do I know you?” or “Do you remember…” in your story.

– 56 stories

Write about someone who finally finds acceptance, or chooses to let go of something.

– 83 stories

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

– 75 stories

Write a story in the form of a letter, or multiple letters sent back and forth.

– 79 stories

Write a story with the aim of making your reader gasp.

– 34 stories

Leave your story’s ending unresolved or open to interpretation.

– 84 stories

Write from the POV of a character in a story who argues with their author, or keeps getting rewritten by their author.

– 79 stories

Include a huge twist, swerve, or reversal in your story.

– 70 stories

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