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Go NaNo meta

Your character joins NaNoWriMo and starts writing a story. It is the story you are writing.

Forty-two, 42 times

Get the number 42 into one chapter exactly 42 times. Make some hard to spot.

Random Gallery Prompt

If you can tell us how this chain of images forms a single coherent narrative, we would love to read it.

Add a plot twist using dice

Use the plot twist table from our roll for plots bonus list to introduce an unexpected reversal.

Message in a bottle?

Look who’s fighting now

Your dare is this: Have a loud and public domestic argument interrupt and prevent an important plot revelation.

Where did you last see it?

Have a character delay a time-sensitive activity by searching for an unimportant item like a sock, glove, or hairband.

You are death?

Cheating?

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.

Rain stops play

Have your characters make important plot advancing plans only to have them delayed by an unexpected thunderstorm.

Kirk or Picard

Have an important and plot-relevant conversation derailed by an argument over who was better Captain Kirk or Captain Picard?

Loo break

Make an urgent toilet break a vital plot point.

Why we need writers

Six items on your desk

Pick the first six items you see on your desk, in your writing space, or in your room. Make them vital to the plot.

Minecraft, all-day

Have a chapter where all your characters stop whatever important things they are doing and spend the day playing Minecraft.

Food fight

Have a serious meal scene rapidly descend into a massive food fight.

If murder was allowed

Choose the right cup

There are two identical cups of drink. One has laxatives, the other does not. Now one character must choose and both must drink.

Why were we talking about this?

Have two characters debate – at length – over a choice they need to make only for the whole question to prove irrelevant.

That one door.

All a dream?

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…

Punster

Introduce a character who makes endless terrible puns; especially when it is inappropriate to do so.

The hedgehog of fate

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…