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Weekly Writing Prompts

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Write about someone who gets proposed to five times on Christmas Eve.

Romance – 167 stories

Write about someone who is given a bird for the holidays but doesn’t know how to take care of it.

Holiday – 196 stories

Write a science fiction story where all human behavior can be predicted — until your character does something the algorithm did not expect.

Science Fiction – 137 stories

Write about someone who gets an inheritance from a relative they’ve never heard of, but they’ll need to do something completely outside their comfort zone in order to collect it.

Teens – 143 stories

Write about someone getting a job offer they never would have thought to apply for.

Adults – 93 stories

Write a romance where your character falls in love with the last person they expected to.

Romance – 191 stories

Write a mystery where the detective realizes at the last moment that they have the wrong suspect.

Mystery – 117 stories

Write about someone hosting a cookie exchange as a cover to hide the true reason for inviting one of their guests.

Dark – 141 stories

Write about someone trying to recreate a grandparent’s signature baked good from memory.

Kids – 160 stories

Write about two people who run rival bakeries, but fall in love during their town’s annual holiday festival.

Romance – 136 stories

Write about someone investigating a break-in at a bakery. The only thing missing? A very secret ingredient.

Mystery – 106 stories

Write about a group of people determined to win an award for making the biggest cookie ever.

High School – 61 stories

Write about a character who’s so afraid of making the wrong choice that their indecision ruins the very thing they were hoping to keep safe.

Sad – 84 stories

Write about two people who know they’ve made a mistake, and one of them wants to tell the truth but the other wants to lie about it.

Kids – 120 stories

Write about someone trying to atone for a mistake they’ll never be able to fix.

Angst – 190 stories

Write about a character who everyone thinks is guilty of something terrible, but isn’t.

Thriller and Suspense – 179 stories

Write about someone who’s so obsessed with a goal that it leads to the destruction of their closest relationship.

Sad – 154 stories

Write about someone telling their family they won’t be continuing the long-standing family business.

Sad – 174 stories

Write about a family’s first holiday after a parent has gotten remarried, and now there are new faces at the table and new traditions to be honored.

Holiday – 98 stories

Write about someone who didn’t get along with their family as a child, but has since found an appreciation for them.

Teens – 112 stories

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