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Prompts are story ideas that inspire you to get writing. When you are overdrawn at the idea bank, you can always pick up some ideas from the muse. Take our ideas and run with them. Make them yours. Turn prompts into best sellers. Turn prompts into stories for fun. Browse prompts for ideas. If our collection can help you find inspiration or new ideas – then these prompts have done their job.
You or your protagonist makes a phone call. A pair of numbers got accidentally swapped. The call connects to an assassin that has been hired to kill you/them.
Today’s dare is this. Add some cats to the story. Each time anything happens more cats have arrived. Have an endless army of cats that the characters have…
During a raid, the police take possession of a perfectly ordinary-looking computer. However, when the tech team plug it in, the computer complains that it has been detained…
Have your characters make plans that will strongly advance the plot only for the whole day to be a massive waste of time due to bus or train…
In this dare, take your protagonists out for posh food. However, chaos ensues as the person taking the orders keeps misunderstanding and making mistakes. Find a way to…
In today’s dare, you characters play a tabletop RPG such as Dungeons and Dragons. Perhaps this brings hidden feelings to the surface, causes a rift between characters, inspires…
Without disrupting your plot or characterisation, how many pop culture references can you squeeze into a single page?
Are you looking for your next writing idea – here is one. An epic fantasy setting but a sitcom style. The local tavern where a group of underwhelming…
Happy NaNoWriMo everyone. Here we are with a new set of writing dares to see you through the month. A wrong number introduces an unexpected complication (writing dare)
You were murdered. Determined to make the most of your death, you decide to haunt your killer. Just as you were getting the hang of this haunting lark,…
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…