Writing Prompts
Story ideas to get you writing — suggested by the community, answered by you. Nothing ever closes: pick any prompt and add your story.
A goodbye in a language you don't speak
Two people who don't share a language have to say goodbye, perhaps for the last time. Tell their story without relying on the words between them.
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Last call at the all-night café
It's 4am in a café that never closes. Two customers are left, and neither wants to be the first to leave. Write the conversation, or the silence, that keeps them there until dawn.
Prompt by StorySloth
A goodbye in a language you don't speak
Two people who don't share a language have to say goodbye, perhaps for the last time. Tell their story without relying on the words between them.
Prompt by StorySloth
The houseplant that wouldn't die
Against every odd, neglect, darkness, one memorable house fire - a single houseplant refuses to die. Tell its story from the plant's point of view.
Prompt by StorySloth
The world's worst superpower
Your character wakes up with a genuine, undeniable superpower, and it is utterly, gloriously useless. Write the day they discover exactly how useless it is.
Prompt by StorySloth
The note in the library book
Tucked between the pages of a borrowed library book is a handwritten note, clearly meant for a stranger. Write the story of the person who finds it, and what they decide to do next.
Prompt by StorySloth
The Endless Present
You character awakes in an endless complex which they don't quite understand but recognise all too well.
Prompt by Euan Wilson
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