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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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Set your story in a confectionery shop.

– 39 stories

Start your story with a character finding an old heart-shaped box in their house.

– 77 stories

Write about someone going on a search for a specific type (or brand) of chocolate.

– 24 stories

Write a story about a teenager whose family is moving.

– 46 stories

End your story with a character saying “Thank you, God. Thanks an awful lot.” (sarcastically or not).

– 43 stories

Write a story about a couple with fundamentally different beliefs.

– 23 stories

Write a story where a character is exploring their religious or spiritual identity.

– 57 stories

Start your story with a character saying “Are you there, God? It’s me…”

– 108 stories

Set your story in a drawing room.

– 29 stories

Write a story about a group of sisters, or a group of brothers.

– 34 stories

Start your story with the arrival of a new person in a town full of gossips.

– 40 stories

Write a story that includes (or subverts) the enemies-to-lovers trope.

– 25 stories

Write a story about two characters whose first impressions of one another are wildly inaccurate.

– 54 stories

Write a story titled ‘The Locked Door.’

– 73 stories

Set your story in a nameless world.

– 27 stories

Start your story with someone finding an object labeled with their name.

– 35 stories

Write about a character whose name you got from our Character Name Generator.

– 45 stories

Create a title with our Title Generator, then write a story inspired by it.

– 93 stories

Your character runs an inn for resting mountaineers. It’s a calm life, until they encounter a twist of fate.

– 45 stories

Write your story from the point of view of someone learning or teaching an extreme hobby.

– 19 stories

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