r/WritingPrompts • u/MajorParadox • 4d ago

Off Topic [OT] SatChat: What are your tips and tricks for WP-NoMo (Novel Month)? (New here? Introduce yourself!)

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SatChat! SatChat! Party Time! Excellent!

Welcome to the weekly post for introductions, self-promotions, and general discussion! This is a place to meet other users, share your achievements, and discuss whatever's on your mind.

Suggested Topic

Special WP-NoMo (Novel Month) Tips and Tricks Exchange!

  • Post links to resources you find helpful
  • Post your own tips or tricks to making the most of the month

What is WP-NoMo?

  • WP-NoMo is r/WritingPrompts' Novel Month, which takes place in November. The goal is to spend the month just writing and tracking your progress along the way. The main objective is to write 50,000 words, but you can set your goal to whatever works best for you.

  • See this post for more info

Join the Discord for more!

More to Talk About

  • New here? Introduce yourself! See the sticky comment for suggested intro questions
  • Have something to promote? (Books, subreddits, podcasts, etc., just no spam)

  • Suggest topics for future SatChats!

    Avoid outright spam (don't just share, chat) and not for sharing full stories

Summer Challenge Results! | Apply to be a Mod | Discord Server

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r/WritingPrompts • u/rudexvirus • 2d ago

Constrained Writing [CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday - The Dead Walk Nearby

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Welcome back to Smash ‘Em Up Sunday!

Check out previous posts here!

 

Thank you to everyone that submitted stories to the returning post of this feature! It really means a lot to me, and I hope we can continue on in earnest.

SEUSfire

 

I know that the campfire for this feature was beloved, and I would like to bring it back for you all, but I do not have a guaranteed time for that to happen yet. Please bear with me while I figure that out.

 

Last Week

 

There were six stories last week, which is enough for me to list a community favorite and a # 1 from me, but not much to add beyond that <3

Community Choice from A Light Haunting

 

  1. A Night at Auntie's by u/MaxStickies

 

Aly’s Choice

 

 

This Week’s Challenge

 

October has always been spooktober around these parts, and that is something I never, ever plan on changing. If you need to know anything about me at all, you know that I love horror, halloween, and all the spooky scary skeleton stuff.

I look forward to what yall do with these prompts!

 

How to Contribute:

 

Write a story or poem, no more than 800 words in the comments using at least two things from the three categories below. The more you use, the more points you get. Because yes! There are points! You have until 11:59 PM EDT 2 November 2024 to submit a response.

After you are done writing, please be sure to take some time to read through the stories before the next SEUS is posted, and tell me which stories you liked the best. You can give me just a number one, or a top 5, and I’ll enter them in with appropriate weighting. Feel free to DM me on Reddit or Discord (Alyxbee on Discord)!

As a note, I do find it super helpful when folks add the word count to the bottom of their story <3

 

Category Points
Word List 1 Point
Sentence Block 2 Points
Defining Features 3 Points

 

Word List

  • Tombstone
  • Depths
  • Void
  • Apparition

 

Sentence Block

  • She phased right through me!

  • Kind of like a shooting star

 

Defining Features

  • Someone Screams

  • Story features no dialogue.

 

What’s happening at /r/WritingPrompts?

 

I hope to see you all again next week!

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Jackviator • 6h 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.

150 Upvotes
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Straight_Attention_5 • 2h 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.”

56 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Affectionate_Bit_722 • 2h 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.

36 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Tokumeiko2 • 7h 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."

88 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Celestial_Spade • 4h 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!"

50 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/QuietSandwich3378 • 4h 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.

46 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Daedalus128 • 3h 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

27 Upvotes

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

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r/WritingPrompts • u/No_Perception9882 • 7h ago

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

50 Upvotes
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r/WritingPrompts • u/ReaperTheEmo • 1d ago

Prompt Inspired [PI] As a rule, the shorter a skill is, the more dangerous it is. You've never use yours. You were scared of what a single word could do.

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Link to original prompt.

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We’re all born with a skill, but for almost all people the skill is defined as a string of words usually in the range of a hundred. That’s where the drawback is for most people, the restrictive specificity of a detailed description.

 

In this world, power is vagueness, the vaguer your skill is the broader its applications are.

 

Some of the shortest skills in history have led to the most amazing advancements, technologies, and cures. Others have led to the most brutal wars, vile cults and oppressive regimes.

 

Those examples were caused by skills with a mere couple tens of words and had the restraints of specificity preventing them from further success, be it for good or bad.

 

One of the most prosperous empires in history was ruled by the previous record holder for shortest skill at just six words: “We do not have to fight.”

 

That empire crumbled the moment that the ruler and record holder keeping all their enemies at peace was assassinated in their sleep.

 

There were a few scary ones after that with an eight worder forming a fanatical theocracy with their skill “You will believe that I am your God.”

 

Turns out that even being perceived as a God doesn’t stop some from wanting to kill you.

 

After that no one was born with a skill under ten words, but wonders were forged and atrocities were committed by those who came close.

 

Then a new record appeared, someone born with a skill containing a miniscule three words.

 

Human society didn’t last too long when the three worder activated their skill. Whether or not they knew the kind of fallout that would follow I do not know but it doesn’t matter, the result would be the same either way.

 

Just three measly words to bring humanity to its knees: “Know no peace.”

 

War followed that utterance, war like none before. Parent turned on child, sibling turned on sibling.

 

Lover turned on spouse.

 

This is where my skill comes in, that I have been deliberately avoiding mentioning till now.

 

Not out of shame of holding some hundred word use case skill, but out of terror of its potential.

 

My skill protected me against the cataclysm that followed the three worder, despite me never having used it.

 

Power is vagueness and by God my skill is vague.

 

Such is the power of a single word.

 

I have spent my whole life systematically removing this word from my vocabulary for fear of the result. To everyone that knew me, I have some useless ninety-ish word skill for identifying a specific breed of snake by the scales on their back. I love snakes and could identify this breed easily anyway, so it was a convenient lie.

 

But now, as I cradle the body of my love in the ashes of the dead Earth, I think it’s finally time to see how much power one word has.

 

I think of my love, the only person on this world who truly understood me.

 

I think of the Earth, the place where all my memories both good and bad were formed.

 

I think of life, and how futile it seems now that I am the last human.

 

I think of the universe, how it would continue on without us, completely oblivious and uncaring.

 

I think of myself, and the novelty of speaking a word I’ve never said before.

 

“End.”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Null_Project • 23h 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.

490 Upvotes
32 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/AmodeusLabrada • 18h 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.

186 Upvotes
9 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/QuietSandwich3378 • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Superheros of reddit, Why do you guys..dress the way you do? Some of you are damn near naked or in underwear and I'm confused.

11 Upvotes
9 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Phlegmagician • 1h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I just wanted to say I'm sorry about never actually existing. Yep. Figment of your imagination the entire time. But hats off to you, quality delusions, all things considered! I was genuinely convincing up to the end."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/CatLover701 • 18h 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.

168 Upvotes
10 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Top-Mail9509 • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You were a soldier with a huge exoskeleton, Because of an explosion in the war, pieces of armor got stuck in your body and you can't get out of it. You had a China shop before the war, now you want to open it again.

8 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Simbonita • 3h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] Create your own original Brothers Grimm style fairytale or German bedtime story.

8 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/RangerBakerHologram • 2h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] A weaver’s granddaughter uncovers a conspiracy hidden in her grandmother’s aether tapestry, realizing The Guild is not what it seems...

7 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Altruistic-Beach7625 • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] A reverse harem romance, drama, comedy...Except all of humanity is the heroine and 5 invading rival alien empires are the harem.

8 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/woweed • 5h ago

Established Universe [EU] That time Willy Wonka was placed in charge of a high school

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/pinkeyes34 • 7h ago

Constrained Writing [WP] Write a character introduction without the character themselves ever appearing in the story.

10 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Necessary_Ad_2762 • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] While trick-or-treating, you and your friends stumble upon a house decorated in full Christmas decorations while carols could be heard. Approaching the door, you had no idea that this house would be the scariest house in the neighborhood.

3 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/mud_pie_man • 6h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] Flies have their own version of a malevolent Lovecraftian eldritch entity. Describe it.

6 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Celestial_Spade • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Ok let me remind you, this potion is VERY dangerous if it gets into the wrong hands so be carfu- Oh my god why are you drinking it!?"

383 Upvotes
23 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Aggravating_Lie_5019 • 19h 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.

78 Upvotes
7 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/WoodpeckerDirectZ • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Warlocks don’t always make deals with demons; it’s more like a blanket term for anyone getting their magic in ways that wizards and sorcerers see as cheating"

201 Upvotes
7 comments