Best General Writing Prompts of 2021

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Write about someone who keeps picking up different hobbies but never manages to stick with them.

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Set your story at a convention for a hobby most people have never heard of.

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Write about someone who still practices a skill that used to be necessary but has long since been replaced by technology.

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Write about someone who keeps an unusual animal as a pet.

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Start your story with one character trying to convince another to take up their favorite hobby.

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Set your story in a remote winter cabin with no electricity, internet, or phone service.

General – 161 stories

Write a story set in the summer, when suddenly it starts to snow.

General – 102 stories

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Write about someone who gets stuck in their workplace during a blizzard and decides to explore rooms they aren’t normally allowed in.

General – 96 stories

Start your story with someone looking out at the snow, and end it with them stepping tentatively onto a frozen surface.

General – 163 stories

Write about two people going sledding for the first time in many years.

General – 88 stories

Write about a character who’s always thinking of things they’ll say to people, but who ends up saying very little when they finally get the chance.

General – 246 stories

Write a conversation that takes place between two people who refuse to say what they mean.

General – 66 stories

Write about a character who is incapable of telling even the smallest lie or half-truth.

General – 91 stories

Write a story told exclusively through dialogue.

General – 391 stories

Write about two characters who each want to change the same thing, but resolve to go about it in very different ways.

General – 96 stories

Start your story with one character making a vow that they never would have made the year before.

General – 115 stories

Write about someone whose job is to help people leave their old lives behind.

General – 278 stories

Write a story in the form of a top-ten list.

General – 129 stories

Write a story that takes place across ten seconds.

General – 286 stories

Write a story that takes place across ten days.

General – 113 stories

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