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Write about someone who still practices a skill that used to be necessary but has long since been replaced by technology.

– 133 stories

Write about someone who keeps an unusual animal as a pet.

– 178 stories

Start your story with one character trying to convince another to take up their favorite hobby.

– 175 stories

Set your story in a remote winter cabin with no electricity, internet, or phone service.

– 242 stories

Write a story set in the summer, when suddenly it starts to snow.

– 159 stories

Write about someone who gets stuck in their workplace during a blizzard and decides to explore rooms they aren’t normally allowed in.

– 161 stories

Start your story with someone looking out at the snow, and end it with them stepping tentatively onto a frozen surface.

– 231 stories

Write about two people going sledding for the first time in many years.

– 129 stories

Write about a character who’s always thinking of things they’ll say to people, but who ends up saying very little when they finally get the chance.

– 219 stories

Write a conversation that takes place between two people who refuse to say what they mean.

– 58 stories

Write about a character who is incapable of telling even the smallest lie or half-truth.

– 80 stories

Write about two people who just can’t seem to understand each other, no matter how clearly they think they’re speaking.

– 79 stories

Write a story told exclusively through dialogue.

– 345 stories

Write about two characters who each want to change the same thing, but resolve to go about it in very different ways.

– 83 stories

Write about someone who doesn’t remember their past — and doesn’t want to.

– 204 stories

Start your story with one character making a vow that they never would have made the year before.

– 101 stories

Write about someone whose job is to help people leave their old lives behind.

– 244 stories

Write about someone who has finally managed to succeed at a long-standing New Year’s resolution.

– 97 stories

Write a story in the form of a top-ten list.

– 113 stories

Write a story that takes place across ten seconds.

– 254 stories

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