WEEKLY WRITING PROMPTS
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211 contest entries /
127 stories
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Start your story with a character finding an old heart-shaped box in their house.
Valentine's Day
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78 stories
Write about someone going on a search for a specific type (or brand) of chocolate.
Middle School
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24 stories
Write a story about a teenager whose family is moving.
Teens
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46 stories
Write a story about a couple with fundamentally different beliefs.
Valentine's Day
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23 stories
Write a story where a character is exploring their religious or spiritual identity.
Fiction
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59 stories
Start your story with a character saying “Are you there, God? It’s me…”
Dialogue
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108 stories
Set your story in a drawing room.
Fiction
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29 stories
Write a story about a group of sisters, or a group of brothers.
Vampire
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35 stories
Start your story with the arrival of a new person in a town full of gossips.
Adults
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41 stories
Write a story that includes (or subverts) the enemies-to-lovers trope.
Romance
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25 stories
Write a story titled ‘The Locked Door.’
Dark
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75 stories
Set your story in a nameless world.
Kids
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27 stories
Start your story with someone finding an object labeled with their name.
Horror
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37 stories
Write about a character whose name you got from our Character Name Generator.
Character
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46 stories
Create a title with our Title Generator, then write a story inspired by it.
Teens
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97 stories
Write your story from the point of view of someone learning or teaching an extreme hobby.
Narrative
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19 stories
Set your story in a snowed-in chalet.
Winter
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56 stories
