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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.
This looks like it might be the story of a hacker, a murder, and some old school detective work. Only you can tell us for sure.
You were having a perfectly ordinary walk in the countryside when you happened to meet an angel. She stopped you to ask for directions. As you happened to…
“What’s the worst that can happen?” These were words that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
Your character joins NaNoWriMo and starts writing a story. It is the story you are writing.
If you can tell us how this chain of images forms a single coherent narrative, we would love to read it.
Use the plot twist table from our roll for plots bonus list to introduce an unexpected reversal.
Your dare is this: Have a loud and public domestic argument interrupt and prevent an important plot revelation.
Have a character delay a time-sensitive activity by searching for an unimportant item like a sock, glove, or hairband.
Have a character cheat to try and lose a game only to win. Then get found out for cheating. Bonus points if big money was involved.
Have your characters make important plot advancing plans only to have them delayed by an unexpected thunderstorm.
Have an important and plot-relevant conversation derailed by an argument over who was better Captain Kirk or Captain Picard?
Pick the first six items you see on your desk, in your writing space, or in your room. Make them vital to the plot.
Have a chapter where all your characters stop whatever important things they are doing and spend the day playing Minecraft.
There are two identical cups of drink. One has laxatives, the other does not. Now one character must choose and both must drink.