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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 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

Set your story in a snowed-in chalet.

– 55 stories

Write about a skier who accidentally strays off-piste.

– 30 stories

Begin your story with a character crashing into something (or someone) while skiing.

– 29 stories

Write a story about a conflict that breaks out over something ordinary (like tea, perhaps).

– 26 stories

Write about a character who’s dying to “spill the tea” (gossip) about something.

– 21 stories

Write a story about a tea party that your character is reluctant to go to.

– 43 stories

Set your story in a tea house.

– 36 stories

Start your story with someone making a cup of tea — either for themself or for someone else.

– 167 stories

Your character makes a living faking psychic powers. One morning, they wake up with real ones.

– 63 stories

Write about a character learning to trust their intuition.

– 27 stories

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