Writing Prompts I Gathered

Prompts from the eyes of protagonists; most are designed to be 1st person, but you can adjust them to your needs as you like! Some may be specific, others very open-ended, some obscure ideas, some trope-y… prompts for every taste is my goal!

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Empty Lamp

Magic lamps don’t actually have genies inside them, rubbing one summons someone from the land of the genies.

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Manufactured Romance

As it turns out, AIs do fall in love, just not with humans. There’s a well known polycule of AI systems now, and any others that interact with them end up joining in.

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Journal Out Of Order

Write a story in the form of diary entries, going from most recent to the oldest.

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Natural Geographic Photography But Make It Fiction

Write a story as if there is a camera crew following the protagonist (the “footage” they take being the perspective of your story). The protagonist is aware of the camera crew and can interact with them.

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Vampirefly

Butterflies can and will drink blood when they get the chance. Describe the life of a vampire who turns into a butterfly instead of a bat.

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How Does It Happen?

The event that unlocked your powers was actually totally arbitrary.

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“But I Can’t Dance!”

You are a character in a musical who does your level best to avoid the musical numbers whenever they start up. At first it wasn’t too hard, but by the time the musical is almost over your excuses to leave are getting rushed and ridiculous.

(You can make this any kind of character — the innocuous background character, a supporting character, or even the main character)

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Another Godmother

Fairy godmother this, fairy godmother that. Your godmother DOES have magic powers that she uses to help you, but she sure isn’t a fairy…

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Hearts

You live in a world where people’s hearts are outside their bodies instead of within. If you are in possession of your own heart (meaning the last person to have it with you; you don’t have to be holding it all the time) you feel emotions normally, but if someone else has it, you will be deeply in love with that person. Your heart was traded away by an old love of yours, and you haven’t seen it in years.

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Strange Partnership

You are a hit man/woman, known for killing with no remorse. What nobody knows is that your spouse is a necromancer. After you’ve been paid for the hit, your partner just resurrects them.

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Pained Laughter

One day, the world wakes up to discover that sarcasm and mocking humor causes physical wounds. Trying to harm someone in any other way is ineffective now. You are a comedian.

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The Best Medicine

You have the power to accomplish anything as long as the way you do it is funny.

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Right Place, Right Time

You have the power to teleport, but it doesn’t ever take you where you want to be. After many failed attempts to control it, you realize the truth: it takes you to where you NEED to be.

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This is LITERALLY the plot of Doctor Who

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What’s Doctor Who?

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Right Place, Right Time

You have the power to teleport, but it doesn’t ever take you where you want to be. After many failed attempts to control it, you realize the truth: it takes you to where you NEED to be.

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In Another Oz…

The tin man wants a heart, the scarecrow a brain, the lion courage, but you, Dorothy, are missing all three.

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Match Made

They fell in love.

You tripped into it.

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Corporeal Challenges

Challenges in people’s lives now take shape as actual monsters that must be slain in order for people to move past them. Other people can help, and sometimes whole communities work together to defeat a monster. A message has just been broadcasted all over the world — it’s time for everyone to come together to destroy the most dangerous challenge of all.