WEEKLY WRITING PROMPTS
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This week's contest:
Win $250
Words, Words, Words
167 contest entries /
94 stories
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Closes at 23:59 - Mar 21 EST
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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36 stories
Start your story with a character or a narrator saying, “Don’t you remember?”
Middle School
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58 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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64 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
Write a story about someone who feels increasingly irrelevant.
Sad
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57 stories
Start your story with someone saying, “We’re running out of time.”
Middle School
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77 stories
Write about a character who settles disputes for a living (a judge, mediator, school counselor, etc).
Middle School
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36 stories
Write a story that includes the line “I can’t believe we’re arguing over this.”
High School
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60 stories
