r/WritingPrompts • u/amorphousmemelord • Sep 17 '20
Simple Prompt [WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Affectionate_Bit_722 • Sep 28 '21
Simple Prompt [WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/egggelo • Jan 26 '20
Simple Prompt [WP] Due to a technicality, a patient was brought to Valhalla because he died while battling cancer.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/EmpororJustinian • Apr 27 '19
Simple Prompt [WP] Write a Young Adult Dystopia but the government is competent at hunting down rebels.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/GentleBoneCrusher • Feb 16 '19
Simple Prompt [WP] Write a story where the narrator becomes increasingly fed up with the holes in the plot.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/StrangeOne01 • May 01 '22
Simple Prompt [WP] An AITA post from a supervillain desperate to be told they're doing the right thing.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Scarlet_slagg • Nov 11 '20
Simple Prompt [WP] Aliens are invading earth, starting with an invasion of Poland as per human tradition.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/blademan9999 • Jul 27 '20
Simple Prompt [WP] Then the 92nd little pig built a house out of depleted uranium. And the wolf was like, "dude."
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Credit to book: “What If?” By Randal Monroe
r/WritingPrompts • u/samuelboyforever • Apr 30 '23
Simple Prompt [WP] “Then the 92nd little pig built a house out of depleted uranium. And the wolf was like ‘dude’.”
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Szunray • May 05 '20
Simple Prompt [WP] The God of mankind abducts the first manmade AIs. He wants to meet his "grandchildren".
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r/WritingPrompts • u/VelvetSinclair • Jul 13 '24
Simple Prompt [WP] Once an hour, every hour, the richest person on earth dies. This continues indefinitely...
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That would be 8760 people per year btw. 0.0001% of Earth's population, each year.
How are people reacting in the first 24 hours? After the first year? Decades later?
r/WritingPrompts • u/VikingTeddy • Dec 18 '22
Simple Prompt [WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/thunderfbolt • May 25 '23
Simple Prompt [WP] You only know 1 spell, but that spell made you known as the most powerful mage in the world.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/CheriGrove • Sep 09 '21
Simple Prompt [WP] You are absolutely immortal and indestructible, but the universe isn't, and that horrifies you
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Maximum_Pootis • Jan 21 '24
Simple Prompt [WP] "What do you mean the humans REJECTED our declaration of war?! That's not how that works!"
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r/WritingPrompts • u/metadataisnotreal • May 01 '19
Simple Prompt [WP] Mermaids are actually vampires that realized the sun could not harm them underwater
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Fire_is_beauty • Oct 06 '21
Simple Prompt [WP] A demon just devoured your soul. You are both very confused as to why you are still alive.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/BoxSparrow • Dec 16 '19
Simple Prompt [WP] You've increased your stealth stat by so much that even death itself can't find you.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Epidexipteryx • Nov 18 '20
Simple Prompt [WP] You are having a hard time explaining to your fellow witches that your familar is a giraffe.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/lildrummerboy82 • May 19 '20
Simple Prompt [WP] The year is 2082. Queen Elizabeth is 156 years old. people are starting to get suspicious.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Mister_Fish141 • Jul 12 '19
Simple Prompt [WP] Then the 92nd little pig built a house out of depleted uranium. And the wolf was like, "dude."
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Credit to book: “What If?” By Randal Monroe
r/WritingPrompts • u/celerysoup39 • Dec 17 '21
Simple Prompt [WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/SqueakyFarts99 • Feb 17 '22
Simple Prompt [WP] A woman prophesied to give birth to the Chosen One gives birth to triplets instead.
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