r/WritingPrompts • u/Mindless-Show4468 • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You love your partners new jazzed up style and zest for life. They've reached a stage in their life of supreme confidence. Only problem is they're making you feel motionless. They're the exciting filling and your just the boring bun holding it all together.

9 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Brave_and_the_Bald • 13h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] 1850. Cursed to die if darkness touches you, a phenomenon plunges the world into endless night. As monsters emerge to snuff out every gas lamp, candle, and lantern, you realize a terrifying truth: the lights you need to stay alive are what draws them straight to you.

6 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Ok_Fisherman8770 • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Usually, when people try to beat Death at chess, it's so they can resume living. You, a chess grandmaster, just wanted one last game before you went, and Death is pleasantly surprised.

364 Upvotes
7 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/plogan56 • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You finda genie, but rather than 3 wishes he tries to sell you a product that will help you accomplish your wish

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/AlexYadaYada • 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] To survive the apocalypse, you trade goods. Medicine, hygiene products, food. But the one thing you freely give out is the current date and time that you still keep track of, which has elicited varying reactions from the people you trade with.

1 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Kitty_Fuchs • 19h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Dude, why does your familiar keep calling you a witch?" "Because he is convinced that I'm a woman." "That doesn't seem to bother you much." "I don't really mind it."

15 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/HonestAbe1809 • 20h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You’re an agent of the Alchemist’s Guild working undercover to catch unscrupulous freelance alchemists selling useless or outright dangerous “potions” to unwary adventurers.

18 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/hogw33d • 9h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] You're normal in every way, *except* you've recently realized you have one magical body part

2 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Psychronia • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Everyone, including herself, thought she was doomed to a miserable end without recourse when her husband of 10 years abandoned her for a younger woman and kicked her out with nothing to her name. With nothing to lose, she called on Hera for help...

62 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/IAmOEreset • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] When you activated the machine to serve and protect humanity, your colleagues were worried it may backfire. The machine works just fine, they were worried for nothing. Outside of humanity's sight however, the machine is a Skynet for aliens.

126 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/MaxStickies • 1d ago

Simple Prompt [SP] The potatoes at the store have started whispering to you

22 Upvotes
10 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Sea-Phrase-1812 • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are a reptilian child in human skin. It is your given right to own all humans, but today you came back home crying from school after another child was "bullying" you by speaking conspiracy theories about reptilians.

3 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/BuffaloAutomatic2276 • 19h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] For generations your family has been protecting the world as Mecha pilots/superheroes/etc. Now time has come for you to take up the mantle, they say. What they don't know is that you've been already doing that for years, under the different mantle, one that they don't exactly agree with.

8 Upvotes

Hi

Just to clarify what i had in mind, here's small example/explanation:

"You're family has been mecha pilots for generations, your grandparents, parents and now you and your siblings are next in line. Problem is that few years back you've been chosen as magical girl/boy and have been saving the world since then. Unfortunately your family doesn't have good opinion/relation with that profession and have yet to find out about your secret."

As mentioned this is just an example, you don't have to follow it, just focus on title prompt

1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Scared_Can_5571 • 19h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] "Is this... legal?" "No idea. If it was, I probably wouldn't be doing it."

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/sarusongbird • 10h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] Death and Life switch places for a day.

0 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Megamen1927 • 10h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Are you here to confess your sins?" "That depends. How much free time do you have?" "More time than you have left to live."

0 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/FirstSineOfMadness • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You pause last week’s security tape as the wide eyed creature appears for a single frame, staring into the eyes of its victim. Glancing away then looking back, you see the creature in the paused video frame now has its head turned to the camera, and its eyes staring directly into yours.

41 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Ghostly ships usually have to remain on water, and can’t bother most folks. But then climate change brings in historic cloud banks, and it turns out gliding atop the fog still counts as being on water…

12 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/younGrandon • 14h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Two ancient pages torn from two separate realms, layered and bound to reveal a third. Once read in its totality, the pages separate again leaving an echo of the reader behind.

2 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/LivingLab12 • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Nuclear weapons didn't work, our most advanced technology did nothing. How did you stop the Horror from Beyond the Stars?" You shrug. "I gave it a steam account and a credit card with 1 million dollars."

241 Upvotes
13 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Clear_Ad4106 • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] After the maid single handedly dispatches your attackers you confront your parents about giving you a secret bodyguard without telling you anything. As it turns out, they didn't know she could do that either.

226 Upvotes
16 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Clear_Ad4106 • 16h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "You are not a hive mind, you just copy and replace! I know my friend is not inside you!" "Does it really matter we aren't the original? We have all their memories and this body can recreate their exact personality. We might as well be them." "To me you are just the thing that killed them."

2 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/shngrdnr • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Bending down to pick up the fork you dropped, you notice that the people at the restaurant table next to yours - eating and chatting quite contentedly - are shackled to the floor by their ankles.

16 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Very-Diligent-Pirate • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Why must you summon me here? I don't know anything about war!" protested the hero. The Sage answers with distant eyes: "War and strife had seeped into this very land. We can no longer imagine a world without the Demon King, and thus cannot create it. Only you can create the World After War."

9 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Horse_penis_exe • 23h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] “this isn’t about saving people anymore, it’s about killing you now.”

7 Upvotes
1 comment