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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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Write a story where the power goes out on a spaceship or submarine.

– 86 stories

Write about someone who purposefully causes a power outage.

– 145 stories

Write a story that starts with someone writing their will — one they know people won’t like.

– 183 stories

Write a story about someone who travels to the future, and isn’t happy about how they’ve been remembered.

– 131 stories

Write a story about someone breaking a long family tradition.

– 170 stories

Write a story about someone who’s famous for something they never actually did.

– 119 stories

Write a humorous story about the descendant of someone remembered for an insignificant act.

– 71 stories

Write a story about an established group of people welcoming (or not welcoming) a new face into their midst.

– 126 stories

Write a story about two people meeting during unusual circumstances and becoming fast friends.

– 225 stories

Write a day-in-the-life-story about a first-time parent and their newborn child.

– 99 stories

Write a story in which two people who know each other are introduced — but neither person admits to knowing the other.

– 190 stories

Write a story from the different perspectives of two people meeting for a blind date.

– 128 stories

Write a story where the readers are in on a secret that the characters are unaware of.

– 101 stories

Write a story involving a conversation that’s packed with subtext; the characters aren’t quite saying what they mean.

– 76 stories

Write a story that either starts or ends with someone asking, “Can you keep a secret?”

– 419 stories

Write a story about an old family secret surfacing generations later.

– 141 stories

Write a story about a meeting of a secret society.

– 155 stories

Write a story about a TV show called "Second Chances."

– 108 stories

Write a story about someone struggling to learn a skill that in no way comes naturally to them.

– 153 stories

Write a story about someone looking to make amends for a mistake.

– 222 stories

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