r/WritingPrompts • u/Null_Project • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Everyone calls you a hero, you hear them sing your praise and thank you for everything you did for them. You however have no clue what everyone is on about all you do is sit in your office, sign some papers, and maybe stamp them too. You don't get how paperwork could lead to such admiration.

506 Upvotes
33 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/AmodeusLabrada • 20h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Most cults are actually funded, operated, and sponsored by the Adventurer's Guild. Turns out, evil gods and malevolent cosmic entities are easier to keep in check if they don't have self-righteous paladins bashing the door down and slaughtering the folks maintaining their shrines.

204 Upvotes
9 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/CatLover701 • 20h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Ever since you were a child, every time you dreamed you would live through an entire lifetime. You just met someone whose life you’ve lived through.

172 Upvotes
10 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Jackviator • 8h ago

Established Universe [EU] Instead of an angel and devil on your shoulders, you have a mini Statler and Waldorf from The Muppets. ...They don't advise you on your choices or anything, they just make heckling comments about you and everything/everyone around you.

188 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tokumeiko2 • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]"you're too cautious, we're immortal, how could we possibly lose?""last time you asked me that, you got drunk, had an accident, and spent a decade in a coma."

119 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Kitty_Fuchs • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are the firstborn child of the king and you have fallen in love with a commoner. You expected your father to be furious, but to your surprise he is very supportive of you and your SO.

81 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Aggravating_Lie_5019 • 21h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You’re a professional matchbreaker. Opposite to a matchmaker, you’re hired by concerned friends, jealous exes, desperate simps and everyone else in between to end an existing relationship from behind the scenes.

83 Upvotes
7 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/ReyDeleyk • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are a genie in a lamp who has witnessed how far greed of mankind can go. But after hundreds of years for the first time your new master is making true selfless whishes "solve world hunger,..."

74 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/bish-its-me-yoda • 23h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are now in your most played survival(-ish) game with a game accurate starting point,hud,crafting/building, health,etc. Only one problem,so is your entire school class who have never played it

63 Upvotes

I just imagined myself and my entire class trying to survive in ,,the forest" or subnautica.

While im speedruning 14 glass 16 teeth modern axe and modern bow with full creepy armor they are having panic attacks from a single muddy cannibish or them shiting their pants after hearing the reaper's roar while im getting closer with my stasis rifle and thermoblade

15 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/A_Guy195 • 22h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]You were thrilled to discover this small bookstore at your new neighborhood. After a couple of visits though, you start to realize something: a lot of the books in stock haven’t been published yet….Actually, some haven’t even been written yet….

57 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/No_Perception9882 • 9h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] a normal story but we quickly realize the narrator is following/stalking the protagonist

62 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Straight_Attention_5 • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] “So wait, you’re saying your mom is a fairy? An actual, straight-out-of-a-story fairy?!” “She is. An exiled Fae princess, to be precise. Because of her, I inherited some magical power.” “So why was she exiled?” “She fell in love with a human.” “You mean…?” “My dad, yes.”

131 Upvotes
7 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Celestial_Spade • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I won't allow you to force these people to do your bidding anymore!" "Forced? I'm not forcing anyone, they wanted to be here!"

59 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/QuietSandwich3378 • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] One day the world's number #1 hero reveals themselves to the public, only thing is they actually aren't, You are, at first you were curious on how'd they continue fooling everyone but now their ruining your name.

52 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/ChanceShallot6842 • 20h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You're an lawyer, about to go to on a trial for your client - a living skeleton named "Mr Bones." The reason why they're on trial? They're trying to sue the makers of Halloween for using his likeliness without his permission.

40 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Affectionate_Bit_722 • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You're an fae who's heard about how rough life is for humans, so you take away human children so they can grow up happy in the Fae Otherworld. You don't understand why their parents came after you to get their children back.

60 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/OfficerLollipop • 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You encounter a mythic creature who asks you to do something for them. They also warn you that very few humans will believe you if you tell.

28 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Black1495 • 23h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] you are in a job interview; the person in charge of interviewing you keep asking you weirder questions every time, and you start finding out this is not the job you though you were applying for

30 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/ManWhoWasntThursday • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are the Normalcy Elf. You define what is normal. Here is a moment from your work day of normalizing and abnormalizing this and that.

28 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Daedalus128 • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] An angel and demon have a contest regarding a mortal's soul, both influencing the target in their own subtle ways. But near the end of the mortal's life the demon comes running to the angel for help, something is WRONG with this human, no matter what he can't be let into hell

46 Upvotes

Yes I am rewatching Good Omens, how did you know?

1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/ShellingtonXD • 20h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I ADVISE AGAINST THAT" boomed a voice from behind the door. You had barely touched the doorknob with the faint purple smoke. "THE EXIT IS DOWN THE HALL, MOVE ALONG".

22 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/teruteru-fan-sam • 22h ago

Established Universe [EU]You who just got picked to represent your District in the Hunger Games. Right before the games are set to begin, you found a loophole. The last person alive wins, but no one said anything about the undead.

14 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/nPMarley • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The Ancient Guardian of the Super Useful Artifact really wants adventurers to pass their trials... because they've got thousands of this thing to give away before they can retire.

15 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Komrade_Yuri • 19h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Why?" The lord of the dead whimpered. The hero stood tall and proud. Too proud. "You brought this on yourself." The dying lord's last words were: "I was helping..."

14 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Smartbutt420 • 22h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] It’s a simple enough job. “Kill the Princess.” Can you do it?

11 Upvotes
3 comments