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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 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.

– 75 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

Write about someone who is convinced they’re going to be betrayed.

– 52 stories

Set your story in a lighthouse surrounded by powerful gale-force winds.

– 37 stories

Craft a story where a character finds themselves swept away by the wind, either physically or metaphorically.

– 59 stories

Set your story on a sailboat, large or small, and entirely at the mercy of the winds.

– 31 stories

A crumpled piece of paper holding an unexpected message is carried by the wind. Where did it come from, and where is it going?

– 59 stories

Begin your story with the sensation of a breeze brushing against a character's skin.

– 133 stories

Write a story about an artist whose work has magical properties.

– 92 stories

Write a story where your character is traveling a road that has no end.

– 95 stories

Write a story where the laws of time and space begin to dissolve.

– 94 stories

Start your story with it raining… anything but rain (e.g. flowers, cutlery, seashells, running shoes).

– 86 stories

Write a story where a regular household item becomes sentient.

– 125 stories

Set your story at a silent retreat.

– 44 stories

Write a story in which an important message is cut off, leaving characters to wonder or puzzle out what was left unsaid.

– 46 stories

Write a story including the line “I can’t say it.”

– 54 stories

Write a story in which a conversation takes place where the true subject is only implied.

– 39 stories

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