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Write a story where your protagonist saves someone from danger.

Fiction

Write a story where your protagonist predicts danger.

Fiction

Write a story where your protagonist narrowly avoids danger.

Fiction

Write a story where your protagonist is in danger.

Fiction

Write a story where your protagonist causes danger.

Fiction

Write a story where the protagonist has dinner with three unlikely people.

High School

Write a story where the protagonist goes on the most mundane errand you can think of. Rely solely on the character to make it interesting.

Middle School

Write a story using a radio as a symbol.

Middle School

Write a story using a pair of shoes as a symbol.

Middle School

Write a story using a mirror as a symbol.

Middle School

Write a story using a journal as a symbol.

Middle School

Write a story using a doorbell as a symbol.

Middle School

Write a story that takes place only in one room.

Middle School

Write a story only through a character's internal dialogue.

Dialogue

Write a story about two opposites communicating.

Narrative

Write a story about an isolated village that has had no contact with the outside world and the inhabitants' response to an unexpected arrival.

Teens

Write a story about a writer writing a story, and the strange events that unfold when there's a knock at the door that interrupts them at the end of the first paragraph.

Teens

Write a story about a strange family tradition, with at least two characters from the family narrating in the course of the story.

High School

Write a story about a plane crash. Your main character is the sole survivor. What happens next?

Middle School

Write a story about a misunderstanding.

High School

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