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I fed ChatGPT the background notes on Colin Blaze and asked it to write a Colin Blaze story. This is the resultant story. It bounces around from good…
You were having a perfectly ordinary day right up until the moment you met a demon. The demon was utterly miserable, cold, and hungry. You decided to take…
In a few hours, you will be gone and another you will appear. For you, “new year new you” is literally true. At the turn of midnight, you…
He enlisted in 1944. His rise through the ranks to Captain he put down to luck. Now, in 2023, collecting his pension while looking the same as he…
Hey, Bloodscream, we’ve got some teens with a classical Latin summoning. You took Latin, right? Can you take this one? I’d ask Skullsmite but he’s off on a…
Your character is drinking some coffee. Maybe it was the caffeine but they suddenly have a moment of insight. The penny has dropped and they can do something…
Without any warning switch genre. Bonus points if you do it again in the same chapter or the next one the whole story is cast in a whole…
Add a wizard to your story who tries to help and only makes things orders of magnitude worse in every respect.
The chapter that you are working on is suddenly filled with puppies. Lots of puppies. And with the puppies comes puppy-related chaos. Extra points… if this was a…
Introduce poo as a theme and/or plot point in your chapter. Perhaps someone trod in it. Maybe someone failed to flush the loo. Or, perhaps, a baby needs…
We dare you to sit somewhere public and include conversations you overhear into your story.
Have a character suggest a shady action that would (if it works) help the characters overcome the antagonist. Have them debate the relative morality of doing evil for…
Take a dip into our writing dares archive. Try and get five of them on the same page.
Your character, by chance, is temporarily granted magical power. For a short while, they can bend the very nature of reality itself to their will. What do they…
It is cold outside. You characters decide to take a break and go inside to warm up. They enjoy a nice hot cup of coffee as they talk…
Write an entire chapter describing complex events that turn out to be from fifty years ago. Bonus points if vampires are involved you make this chapter relevant by…
Events in your story have to stop while two or more characters get into an argument over who gets to eat the last biscuit (cookie).
We dare you to write while listening to this white noise track loudly. (Maybe use headphones).
Due to advanced magic or poorly understood technology, time rewinds and your characters must live through the events of the last chapter a second time. Maybe they change…
We dare you to dress in your smartest or most outrageous clothes as if you were about to receive the Book of the Year award for your novel….
Perhaps they were not thinking. Maybe they did not realise it was a secret. Maybe their mouth started before their brain. It could be that they say the…
We dare you to write at least 500 words at night in the garden while wearing pyjamas. Bonus points if you only use a pencil, paper, and a…