r/WritingPrompts • u/cheesegratingkids • 10h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are an angel sent down to Hell every half-century for a routine checkup. One day, you find it completely remade. It is now a luxury resort without a single scream to be heard. When you confront the Big Man, he simply says "Meh, got bored."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/RedEyeReflection • 22h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] I learned I live in the 'fixed' timeline when I saw my future self fade from existence.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/MagicTech547 • 21h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Similar to video games, more potent abilities are more meticulously crafted then the generic powers everybody seems to have. This has the side effect that these “generic powers” are more easily exploitable.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/90919293_ • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Our universe is a simulation, but not a professional simulation. It's actually a hack job project by an intern at a big tech firm dedicated to simulating universes, basically all of which are much better optimized than ours.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Tokoro-of-Terror • 16h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You and your whole family are Aswangs, creatures of the night feared by many. One night, your little brother goes out for a hunt. When he returns, he's bleeding and missing an arm. With his dying breath, he gasps out the words "Werewolf..."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/SaberfaceFan • 1d ago

Established Universe [EU] “Ben Tennyson of Earth. You have the ability to preserve life in all its forms. Will you join the White Lantern Corps?”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/PickyPickpocketPicks • 1h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]There was no escaping the cult that captured us - Surrounded by a circle of runes, I hugged my cat as tightly as I could, even in the last moments of my life, even as my vision faded to black...When my senses returned to me, I was covered in fur, with a tail and four paws - I had become my cat.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/PM_ME_SMALL__TIDDIES • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]Your superpower of "Disappearing" anything made you a very mediocre hero. And a terrifying villain.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/IHAVEAWOKEN2012 • 11h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You're a newly birthed god when the 29th century starts, now you have 100 years to gain influence or else you'll vanish

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r/WritingPrompts • u/triestwotimes • 22h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Touching that statue doesn't bring good luck; you just seem lucky compared to everyone in your closer circle, since it cursed them.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Not_Really_A_Tree • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Humanity lives in massive underground tunneling machines the size of small towns, as the surface is radioactive. There is a great war between the two largest subterranean federations. You were drafted into the war but deserted... searching for the fabled paradise at the center of earth: 'Kore'.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/VodkaHoudini • 1h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Death is not a singular being but an entire department of individuals deciding who dies, their cause of death, and their destination in the afterlife.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/PassionateGeologist • 2h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] After proving that dolphins are fully sapient, including the neurological, psychological, and cognitive abilities for language, social concepts, logic, and abstract thought, it turns out that humankind is the SECOND most intelligent non extinct species of the Earth

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r/WritingPrompts • u/archtech88 • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I dunno what to tell ya. I grew up Lutheran, so this witchy stuff is a little out of my wheelhouse" "Aren't you a god?" "Yeah, a god who grew up Lutheran. I'm new at this. Gimme a break"

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r/WritingPrompts • u/The_OG_upgoat • 9h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] An immortal who somehow never managed to acquire proper money management skills.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Spirit_Ghost123 • 14h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I love you... time and time again, this lifetime and rest that follows it." An Immortal tearfully embraces a reincarnated soul. "But... I can't love you forever... I have to let you go..."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Puteri_Ayu • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The hero realises the only way to stop their friend from turning to villainy is to be their lover. Even if they don't love them.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/JollyTeaching1446 • 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] you were considered the world's best actor, artist, and master of all things related to the arts you had always thought you were just very naturally gifted well that was before you walked into your home and 9 women with vaguely ancient Greek sounding names started yelling at you.

10 Upvotes
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r/WritingPrompts • u/steel-souffle • 3h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] "That's it, you're all dead meat now!" "...Is that really something a saint should say?"

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Full-Sorbet-8917 • 3h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] Fire it was just fire

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r/WritingPrompts • u/lesbianwriterlover69 • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You find out that the Greek God's temples are just various fastfood or supermarket chains, like Ares is Waffle House, Denny's is Dionysius, Hestia is Costco, and Zeus is Walmart, but not the good Walmart, and so on and so forth.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Not_Really_A_Tree • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] One dark night on the mid 1600's, a pirate ship arrived at an abandoned port town- one that should have been bustling with activity. Following a brief survey, the Captain commands the crew to quickly sail away, certain this is a bad omen. But it's already too late...

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r/WritingPrompts • u/The_OG_upgoat • 18h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] People are getting superpowers from the most ridiculous sources of radioactivity.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/ruiddz • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Why can't we get married? So what if I out live you since I am an elf and you are a human! If you die I'll keep your brain in a jar, enchant it to talk, and carry you around forever!" "Wait, what?"

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Celestial_Spade • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] It’s your best fiends birthday tomorrow, but you have no idea how old they’re turning. You’d thought it would be funny to put an absurd amount of candles on their cake. When the cake is brought out, they look at you with terror and ask “How did you know how old I really am?”

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