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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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Begin or end your story with someone standing in the rain or snow.

– 46 stories

Center your story around a character who is struggling with something no one else in their life knows about.

– 47 stories

Begin or end your story with someone looking out at a body of water (e.g., river, ocean, sea).

– 62 stories

Your character sees or experiences something unexpected. What happens next?

– 42 stories

Set your story before, during, or after a storm.

– 124 stories

Your character wants something they can’t (or shouldn’t) have.

– 43 stories

Start or end your story with someone making a meal, a recipe, or a cup of tea (for themself or someone else).

– 70 stories

Write a story with the words “Cheers!” or “Bon appétit.”

– 23 stories

Include a scene in which someone is cooking, eating, or drinking.

– 103 stories

Write a story about a first or last meal.

– 62 stories

Write a story about someone with one thing left to do before summer ends.

– 49 stories

Start or end your story with the line: "Summer was over, and so were we."

– 46 stories

Write a story about light returning to a place that has been deprived of it for a long time, literally or figuratively.

– 60 stories

Your character reminisces on something that happened many summers ago.

– 69 stories

Write a story about summer love.

– 47 stories

Write about someone whose time is running out.

– 110 stories

Your character wakes up from a dream with a long-awaited idea or answer.

– 23 stories

Write about a breakthrough that arrives just in time — or much too late.

– 44 stories

Start your story moments before everything changes.

– 59 stories

Write about a breakthrough between family members, colleagues, or (former) lovers.

– 40 stories

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