WEEKLY WRITING PROMPTS
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This week's contest:
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24 contest entries /
19 stories
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Write about a character with questionable morals.
Dark
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41 stories
Start your story with a couple sharing a cigarette in a parking lot.
Adults
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66 stories
Write about somebody looking for love on a reality TV show.
Romance
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18 stories
Write about a character who discovers the grass isn't actually greener on the other side.
Middle School
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44 stories
Write about someone deliberately trying to make somebody else envious.
Dark
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25 stories
Write a story about a pathological liar.
Dark
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37 stories
Start your story with a character or a narrator saying, “Don’t you remember?”
Middle School
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59 stories
Write about false news coverage of an important event.
Nonfiction
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17 stories
Write a story where a character is experiencing parallel realities.
Science Fiction
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65 stories
Write about two characters arguing over how a past event happened.
Sad
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34 stories
Set your story in a kids’ playground, or at a roundabout.
Kids
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44 stories
Write about a character who is pathologically ambivalent, until something shakes them up.
Narrative
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33 stories
Write a story that includes a character using the phrase “swings and roundabouts.”
Thanksgiving
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37 stories
Start your story with a character facing a situation that isn't awful, but isn't great.
Middle School
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34 stories
Write a story featuring an element of time-travel or anachronism.
Science Fiction
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68 stories
