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In the United Kingdom of Great Britain, tweets are making their way hundreds and sometimes thousands of years into the past giving rise to a new meaning of…
Last night, you and your best friend of many years went out drinking. Your friend got very drunk. While drunk, your friend told you their biggest secret. Your…
The undead were once trendsetters. Social media ended that. This prompt comes from Twitter.
An oxymoron is when two apparently contradictory or opposite words are used together to express a complex truth. Parting is such sweet sorrow Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet It…
I have curated a selection of the writing prompts found on Twitter. If you want something to get you writing, this might be it. They are from accounts…
“You Move slowly through the dark and still forest, jumping at every snapped twig and distant bird call, ahead of you a shape forms out of shadows… What do you do?”
After accidentally stumbling through an experimental time warp, you ended up injured in the far future. They fixed you up and sent you back again. Only there might…
An older, but somehow familiar, man appears suddenly in front of you. He staggers forwards and presses a torn scrap of paper into your hands before vanishing again….
You finally get the radio telescope to yourself for an evening. With a little luck, you might get useful data for your thesis. You turn the dishes towards…
In the town where you grew up and have spent most of your life, you have started to notice things are slightly “off”. How they are “off” is…
After decades of war, humanity finds itself tucked into densely populated walled cities. Outside the walls are danger, radiation, and adventure. This is why most people stay in…
Under the shadow of a tree, four apparent strangers meet as if by accident. This is no coincidence though. This meeting was years in the making. What these…
This is the story of a guitar player trying to break into the big times. Until that fateful day, the guitarist had little to no success. Then the…
The courts have sentenced a man to be executed based on the indisputable evidence of the court AI. An AI that has never been wrong. At least never…
Here is a selection of writing prompts from Reddit. These were all found on r/WritingPrompts. Visit r/WritingPrompts for more.
You open your eyes. You are sitting atop a mountain. Below white clouds float by. Rocky peaks poke out from the could like little islands. You are alone…
I recently found a great Twitter account (@CommanderGunn) posting space opera sci-fi plot ideas. Here is a small selection of my favourites.
We start with a talented group of musicians. They have done well while performing covers of rock hits in pubs. Their metal versions of pop hits are particularly…
Storyboard is a prompt type where the order of the images is given but it is up to you to tell the story that stitches them together. Our…
One evening, you are looking at the sky. A small alien ship plops down in front of you. The pilot has selected you as humanity’s envoy to go…
When you are bored or waiting to fall asleep, you escape to your own special daydream. You imagine a magical woodland where you are the powerful green mage…
The Twitter account @WeWriteDragons shares a lot of great writing prompts. Here are just a few that I really liked. If you liked these, follow @WeWriteDragons for loads…
You went walking in the mountains to get away from people. The views and the fresh air let you breathe and refocus. On the lonely mountain path, the…