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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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Start your story in the middle of the action.

– 68 stories

Write a story that experiments with tone — perhaps a difficult subject dealt with in a playful way, or an ostensibly happy scene that hints at darkness lurking beneath.

– 62 stories

Write about two friends getting into a fist fight.

– 30 stories

Write about how a single event affects a seemingly unrelated area of a character’s life (their friendships, career, romantic relationships, etc.)

– 35 stories

Write a story during which two conversations happen simultaneously.

– 28 stories

Write about two people striking up an unlikely friendship.

– 92 stories

Write a story about two friends who find themselves competing for something: a job, a prize, a love interest, etc.

– 15 stories

Set your story at a wedding reception, where a group of high school friends are meeting for the first time in years.

– 16 stories

Write about two friends who were once inseparable, but now find themselves growing apart — or even friends turned enemies.

– 78 stories

Write a story about lifelong best friends.

– 58 stories

Write about someone who has always done something as part of a group, and is now starting to set out solo, or vice versa.

– 20 stories

Write a story inspired by SHINee’s “Ring Ding Dong”, where someone can’t get a song out of their head no matter how hard they try.

– 16 stories

Write a story about someone who has put “Blood Sweat & Tears” into getting where they are — only to question whether it was worth it.

– 47 stories

Write a story from the point of view of a “sasaeng” (an obsessive fan).

– 34 stories

Set your story at a large entertainment venue, after the show has ended, amongst the discarded plastic cups and confetti.

– 51 stories

Your main character has a secret superpower; the gossip they spread always comes true.

– 24 stories

Write a story about someone trying to track down the source of a rumor.

– 35 stories

Your character is known as the town gossip. One day, it comes back to bite them.

– 22 stories

Write a story about a piece of gossip that becomes more and more distorted as it passes from person to person.

– 33 stories

Write a story that includes the line “my lips are sealed.”

– 94 stories

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