BEST MYSTERY WRITING PROMPTS
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This week's contest:
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33 contest entries /
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Write a story that involves the architectural plans for a building.
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Write a story where someone sees the shadow of someone standing behind them.
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Write a ghost story where there’s more going on than it first appears.
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228 stories
Write a story about a meeting of a secret society.
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Write a story that ends with the narrator revealing a secret.
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Write a story about a rumor making its way through the grapevine.
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Write a story that starts with the reveal of a long-kept secret.
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130 stories
Write a story that takes place in the woods.
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Write a story about someone who keeps coming across the same stranger.
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Write a story about a valuable object that goes missing.
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Write a story in which someone finds a secret passageway.
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Write a short story that ends with a twist.
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Write a story in which characters are warned not to go into the woods.
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