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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 or end your story with someone watching snow fall.

– 106 stories

Write about a character who receives an anonymous or unexpected gift.

– 29 stories

Set your story in a place where something valuable is hidden beneath the ice.

– 39 stories

Write about a secret that could thaw — or shatter — a relationship.

– 30 stories

Include a moment in which someone knocks on a door right before or after midnight.

– 54 stories

Write a story in which the first and last sentences are exactly the same.

– 71 stories

Center your story around a first or last kiss, hug, or smile.

– 29 stories

Write a story about goodbyes without using the words “goodbye,” “bye,” or “farewell.”

– 73 stories

Start or end your story with a character saying goodbye, or asking a question.

– 41 stories

Write about the start or end of a relationship (familial, romantic, platonic, professional, etc.).

– 100 stories

Write a story that includes the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night,” “Skeletons in the closet,” or “Digging up the past.”

– 54 stories

Make a character’s addiction or obsession an important element of your story.

– 47 stories

Write a story from the point of view of a ghost, werewolf, vampire, or other supernatural creature.

– 81 stories

Center your story around someone who yearns for something they lost, or never had.

– 71 stories

Write a story about a character who is haunted by something or someone.

– 96 stories

Include the line “I remember…” or “I forget…” in your story.

– 98 stories

Write a story where a small action from the past has had a huge effect on the future.

– 48 stories

Write a story about a nostalgic memory — but your protagonist or narrator realizes they’ve remembered it wrong.

– 21 stories

Center your story around someone trying to change a prophecy.

– 37 stories

Write a dual-perspective story or a dual-timeline story.

– 55 stories

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