Ash Juillet

Writing Prompts Galore

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18 Dares For Your Character For An Interesting Twist In Plot

Wear that outfit they've been too scared to wear.

Say no to doing something they really don't want to do.

Print a picture of their friend's face and wear it as a mask.

Smile at the cute new stranger in the neighbourhood.

Play hooky from work.

Break a rule they've made for themselves.

Gather up some courage and tell their crush the truth.

Try out a new laugh and see if people notice.

Not use their phone for three hours.

Say something nice to a stranger.

Doodle something that recaps their day before going to bed for a whole week.

Run an extra mile or dance in the living room.

Sing along to "I will always love you" in the shower while hitting as many high notes as possible.

Let one of their friends make a decision for them.

Go an entire day without worrying about what others think of them.

Go on an online date with someone they've never met.

Talk to someone who looks bored or is alone at a party.

Eat whatever they want for dinner.

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Alternate Universes Edition

Think of a number between 1 to 60 and start writing:

Space

College

Celebrity

Pirate

Medieval

Medical

Social Media

Merpeople

Urban Fantasy

Royalty

Vampire

Undead

Fairytale

Crossover

Songfic

Crime

High Fantasy

High School

Superpowered

Magical Powers

Fluff

Monster

Dystopian

Enemies to Lovers

Angel/Demon

Workplace Romance

Serial Killer

Sugar Daddy/Mommy/Baby

Childhood Friends

Teacher/Prof

Assassin

Preschool

CEO

Cafe

Gods & Goddesses

Victorian

Cyberpunk

Spy

Arranged Marriage

Drama/Theatre

Forbidden Love

Soulmates

Fake Dating

Single Parent

Time Travel

Mythology

Witch/Wizard

Deserted Island

Feral

Florist

Tattoo Parlour

Pet Shop/Animal Shelter

Halloween

Horror

Long Distance

Breakups

Roommates

Meet Ugly

Meet Cute

1920s

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Your OTP's first meeting ft. stray cats

1) "I'm buying cat food in bulk for the stray cats outside my house, and you're the cashier at the supermarket who thinks I'm a cat lady, so you ask me if you can come over to see my cats I'm trying to hold back from making dirty jokes"

2) "I feed the stray cats outside my building every evening, and you live on the ground floor so you've been watching me from the window, thinking I can't see you but I totally can so either come out and help me or stop it, it's weird, dude"

3) "How dare you pet the stray cat I've been feeding and loving like my own child for the past one month? I'm so fucking jealou--Wait, that's your cat? What?"

4) "I was on my hands and knees, making kissy noises at the stray kitten to get it out from under a car, but it's scared of me and I can't reach it. Your arm's pretty long, so could you help me out? I promise I'm not kidnapping it"

5) "I'm playing with this stray cat and trying to ogle you at the same time but the cat doesn't like that and bites my hand oh shit now you're holding my hand and asking me if it hurts"

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Writing Challenge #55

This is for my girl, @theforgottenweasley

You're a contestant in a popular televised baking competition and ready to wow the judges with your amazing gingerbread Christmas cake. This year's competition includes a twist: Competitors are randomly assigned into pairs, and together you must create one winning vision to take home the top prize. Will sparks fly? Or will there be too many cooks in the kitchen?

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Writing Challenge #54

The two of you are best friends in college. You ask him to fix you up with some of his single friends. He secretly likes you and decides to hook you up with friends that he knows won't work out. During the last disastrous date you go on, your date reveals the plan to you. At first, you're angry, but then you realize the lengths your best friend is willing to go through and you decide to try going out with him.

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Writing Challenge #53

Your life didn't work out the way you had planned. Instead of being a successful race car driver, you are now flipping burgers at a fast food joint while your social life and love life are non-existent. Your only form of enjoyment comes from playing videos games—and you are grateful for the escape. When the first virtual simulation game hits the market, you are excited for a whole new level of distraction. This simulated reality game requires you to perform tasks physically in real life to unlock achievements in the game, and you feel pain when injured. Your skills that normally go unused in real life make you a top player within the gaming world, and you draw the attention of a fellow female player who you fall for. But will your relationship be able to translate into the real world or are you doomed to experience life through a simulated reality forever?

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Writing Challenge #52

"Speak softly love," he whispers in your ear. But when you turn in surprise, there is nothing there but a bust of a handsome young man staring back at you. You continue walking down the dark corridor.

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Writing Challenge #51

If you get assigned to the fryolator one more time, you are going to lose it. You hate your manager, and you hate working at Burger Hut, but most of all you hate the smell of French fries cooking in a rancid vat of oil. You clock in, tie on an apron, and—surprise, surprise—Ken has you on fry duty again. Jerk. You go into the walk-in freezer to grab a bag of frozen fries, but when you turn around, the freezer is gone. In fact, the entire Burger Hut is gone. So is the year 2020! You discover that are on a potato farm in rural Ireland in 1545. You don't know what to do, until it dawns on you that no one here knows how to make a French fry. With your advanced knowledge on the subject, you could make a ton of money and become a lord or something. You knock on the potato farmer's door, introduce yourself, and discuss your business plan. After a minute, he slams the door in your face. You begin to lose hope, but when the farmer's beautiful daughter approaches you and expresses her interest in your food invention, you think you have found your business partner—and perhaps something much more.

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Writing Challenge #50

Raised in an orphanage, you know nothing of your magical heritage. However, when you reached the age of maturity, you discovered that you possessed the powers of both the light and the dark. You don't know how your dark powers came to be, but they could get you killed by the magical enforcers: a group sworn to remove black magic from the world. That's why you fled the orphanage in the dead of night and never looked back. You survived on the streets, using your wit and your grit as well as a little bit of your dark powers, but only when absolutely necessary. Now an adult, you still remain in the shadows, keeping to yourself. One fateful night you stumble across an attempted murder. You refuse to watch an innocent man be killed. With no choice but to use your dark powers, you save his life. Little do you know that the handsome man you saved is, in fact, a magical enforcer.

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Writing Challenge #49

After a car accident nearly took your life, you wake up from a coma. In the six months since the accident, everything has changed. Your best friend, who was behind the wheel when you crashed, is dead. All of your other friends have graduated and gone off to college without you. Meanwhile, your mom is busy working three jobs to pay your medical bills. You sit in your room in the rehab facility feeling depressed. One day you meet a new patient on the ward: a handsome football player who shattered his leg and thinks his life is over, too. The two of you work through the healing process together, growing closer each day.

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Writing Challenge #48

It's your first season in London, and you're not sure if you're more nervous or annoyed. The ton isn't exactly your scene. Despite feeling ready for marriage, you are uncertain you're ready for the season of romance. You're tired of the preening and the monotony, and you know the other girls are, too, although they hide it better. The one exception is the Duke of Essex's daughter. It's her third season, which is almost unheard of for someone so well-connected and beautiful. You find yourself drawn to her. She sees through the same boredom that you do, and you are both surprised by the instant connection. When an aristocrat offers her marriage and she considers it, you're shocked by your own jealousy. You wonder if you have found love at the ton after all, but with her—a woman.

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Writing Challenge #47

Seeking respite from the horrors of war, a soldier arrives for a long visit on his uncle's ranch. You are the town's only veterinarian, and when you make his acquaintance when you go over to check on one of the animals, you realize the soldier needs some TLC, too.

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Writing Challenge #46

You're the greatest barrel racer the Women's Professional Rodeo Association has ever seen. You've set record after record and constantly sell out every rodeo you go to.

When a hotshot newcomer starts to steal headlines and win races, you're annoyed. She's basically a kid just out of high school, and she's all show, no finesse.

Still, when the press asks if you'll race against her, you try to be a good sport. Then you hear her scoff and ask "would it even be a race?"

Your blood boils. Who is this nobody cowgirl? You go to confront her and are surprised by the way you react to her: still hot-blooded but it's not quite anger you're feeling. She's conceited and confident as well as snarky and smart as a whip. You become tongue-tied as you realize your interest in her. You walk away, humiliated. You're upset with yourself.

You absolutely cannot have feelings for your worst enemy.

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Writing Challenge #45

Yes, you used to be in love with a vampire, but you were just seventeen and emotions were running high. You broke it off with him before you left for college and, although it was weird to go back to the real world, you knew it was the right thing to do. But then students at your college begin to go missing. Bodies are found on campus drained of blood. When your roommate and then your new boyfriend disappear, you've had enough. It's time to put on some garlic, grab a stake, and end this relationship once and for all. You just hope you can resist his irresistible charms.

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Writing Challenge #44

You are a werewolf slayer whose duty it is to protect humanity from the Lycan hoard. However, you never anticipated that your true love would become the one thing you were trained to kill. You didn't get to her in time, and she was bitten before you could intervene. Yet the law is the law. She must be slayed before she harms others. There is no chance of her changing back. But you just can't bring yourself to do it. Now you must protect the one you were sworn to destroy.

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Writing Challenge #43

The night of a full moon is one that you dread every single month. After losing your fiancé to a tragic accident a year ago, you're wary of the moon and the animals that seem to prowl each time it fills. The police call you hysterical in your grief, but you know that something doesn't add up with the so-called dog attack. Something happens in the woods of your town each month, and you're determined to find answers. You're alone in the woods when you hear it: loud, vibrating howling, followed by the sound of animals running toward you. You try to run away only to trip, and then the dog is on you. It's big, huge, a wolf like none other you've ever seen. The wolf stops, a paw on your chest, staring down at you. There's something familiar about its eyes. Suddenly you understand. Contrary to what the police told you, your fiancé's body wasn't too shredded to identify because this wolf—somehow, someway—is your fiancé. As the sun rises while you sit there, staring at him, you see the wolf's body ripple and change until your fiancé is sitting naked before you. The only thing you hear before passing out is him saying your name.

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Writing Challenge #42

You awaken handcuffed to your bed, with your wife of 10 years standing over you wearing a witch's hat. She is saying some sort of incantation as she sprinkles something over your body. You feel woozy and fall back asleep. When you wake up, it is Saturday morning, and your wife greets you with a big smile and a kiss. You have a hard time remembering what happened last night, but everything rushes back to you when you notice a witch's hat stuffed into a duffel bag in the corner of the bedroom.