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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.
Have two characters debate – at length – over a choice they need to make only for the whole question to prove irrelevant.
I dare you to write a scene where, just for a moment, the protagonist thinks it was all a dream. Double points if this is not at all…
Introduce a character who makes endless terrible puns; especially when it is inappropriate to do so.
Every now and then you see a strange hedgehog in your garden. Each time, it means you will have something life-changing happen to you. Today, there were nine…
Have two characters flip a coin to make a very important decision. Double points if this is a terrible idea but works out for the best anyway.
Introduce a reason why it is vitally important that a character counts all the grains of sand in a large bucket.
Have a tense combat situation as the opening of a chapter only for it to turn out to be a computer game two characters are playing.
Have a character inherit, find, or buy a useless trinket. Bonus points if this later saves the day in an unexpected and creative way.
Today, every newspaper delivered to each house that morning carried a different headline and story that in some way related to the people to whom the paper was…
Just recently, you have started to suspect that your life is nothing but a computer simulation. More importantly, you may have accidentally stumbled upon a series of cheat…
Have one or more of your characters go off the deep end with a huge rant about something mundane, like the correct way to make tea. Milk in…
In what experts are calling “Sudden Sleep Syndrome”, people around the world seem to randomly drop into a deep sleep lasting from five minutes to several hours. Surprisingly,…
Six years ago, a kitten decided to move into your home. From that day on, your luck had always been amazing. Today, the cat has gone missing. Now…
One morning you receive an email which seems to have no sender. All it said was “call in sick today“. On a whim, you did just that. This…
