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Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.
Popular Themes in r/WritingPrompts
#1
Ideas
: "[WP] You served as a royal knight all your life, sworn to protect the king. When he dies of old age, the new prince casts you aside. With nothing left at court, you set out to finally see the world—and discover you’re far stronger than you ever knew. At last, your legend begins."
2 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "[WP] Exasperated by the complexities of love, a mortal makes a frustrated appeal to the Gods, asking them for relationship advice — without, of course, expecting them to respond. One of them does. Only problem; their domain has nothing to do with love, or even humans for that matter."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/WritingPrompts
#1
Wp
: "[Wp] "My son has been brutally killed and I seek revenge," said the Queen. "You have my sword." proclaimed the Hero. "And my bow," added the Archer. "And my magic," intoned the Mage. "And my gun," quipped the Ranger. "AND MY AXE!" exclaimed the Warrior. "And your son!" replied the Necromancer."
75 posts
#2
Writingprompts
: "[WP] It is the robot apocalypse and humanity has been enslaved. But for some unknown reason, you and your family are freed and every time you encounter a sentient machine it always lets you go on your way. Finally, after years of thinking, you realize why..."
47 posts
#3
Fantasy
: "[WP] a zookeeper got isekai'd into a Fantasy world and decided to go into summoning magic which was considered a very hard type of magic but that was because the zookeeper realized no one was giving their summons proper enrichment"
45 posts
#4
Magic
: "[WP] Learning Magic is an arduous journey, requiring sacrifice and dedication from its students. Your parents made you give up your childhood to the study of Magic and only after your studies are completed do you learn that most other mages only start in adulthood and actually *choose* to study it."
31 posts
#5
Writing Prompts
: "[WP]The pregnant evil queen smirks as she places a hand on her swollen belly. "Now hero, you won't kill the mother of your own child will you?" "Lady, I am female, infertile and never had sex before, so that lie is not going to work on me.""
26 posts
#6
Sp
: "[WP] Rumor has it that ghosts have been trying to harm whoever lives in the house that you recently moved in. After some inSpection, you discovered that the house is in fact haunted, except the ghosts are trying to protect you from someone/something else that is trying to harm you."
7 posts
#7
Horror
: "[WP] A butler notices that the lady that he works for suddenly changed. From the arrogant and downright evil woman he used to serve, she now acts meek and kind. One day, he overhears her crying in her room: "Why?! I did everything right, so why the bad end?! This isn't fair... I don't want to die"."
6 posts
#8
Time Travel
: "[WP] You are a Time Traveler, and your best friend has just triple dog dared you to take the best person ever and the worst person ever and make them play minigolf together. Obviously, you can't refuse a triple dog dare, so you start up your time machine, fully ready to do something very stupid."
6 posts
#9
Apocalypse
: "[WP] Years after the Apocalypse, humanity is finally able to rebuild civilization. However, half of the existing population would prefer society stays dead, in fear that rebuilding would only lead to another Apocalypse— or worse."
6 posts
#10
Short Stories
6 posts
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