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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.
When she hugs someone their painful memories are removed and placed into her mind. Her memory is now just a series of painful moments intersected with moments of…
Your people and place Your starting stuff
Due to a drunken deal you once made, your soul is not your own. Since that day you have had incredible good luck and an array of niche…
In this reimagining of Cinderella that you are going to write, Cinderella is a clockwork automaton left to her maker’s wife and stepdaughters after he passed away. This…
When an inventor rips a hole in the fabric of time and space, the last surviving member of The Society of Time Keepers sets out on a steam-powered…
You were just minding your own business when a steam-powered dirigible lands next to you. An eccentric gentleman climbs out of the cockpit and demands to know what…
In this Cinderella story, you are about to write, her father was an inventor and her only friends are sentient clockwork creatures. There is no fairy (so to…
The driver leaned out of the engine cab and called your name. “Quick, get in,” he said. “I’ll explain when we are underway.” As soon as he had…
Try this writing dare: Have your characters kidnapped in a shocking case of mistaken identity. Extra conceptual points if these events help bring them closer to the resolution…
For a few years now, The Muse has shared a growing collection of wild writing dares during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) these are wild and weird things…