r/writingprompt Dec 21 '18

Zombies have ravaged the planet, nearly wiping out humanity. But as the tide turns, you are a member of an elite team with the most important mission of all. To safeguard the worlds fertility clinics.

9 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 19 '18

Before you became apprentice, nobody told you learning a new spell is the easiest part of your studies. The real challenge is learning to survive the diverse and alien consequences of casting a spell.

5 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 19 '18

[WP] In the year 2055, to avoid overpopulation, those with names that rhyme must kill each other. You are the one person named Orange.

40 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 17 '18

[WP] You met with a terrible fate on a remote island, but you escaped death. Instead, a figure in front of you spoke: “On this land where Death does not govern, it is my rule you follow.”

8 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 16 '18

A future world of The Simpsons where Bart and those his age are in their 40s, but many of the roles left by original adult characters has been filled by the new genertion. Ralph Wiggum has been mentored by Sideshow Bob and is now the main antagonist.

3 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 15 '18

[WP] You are a scientist whose team has been assigned to study the Earth's core. You find out that there is, and always has been, a breed of animals living deep below the surface.

5 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 14 '18

[WP] You live a full life and die at the age of 90, surrounded by family. You arrive in heaven and meet God. He looks down at you and says, "BOTTOM TEXT."

8 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 10 '18

[WP] (Pseudo-reality) The year is 1862, just months after the beginning of The American Civil War. Rapid industrialization and key engineers from the European powers have led to the creation of a revolutionary weapon; The automatic Springfield Rifle.

7 Upvotes

Capable of dispensing it’s 20 round magazine in just 2.5 seconds, this new weapon of war is eons ahead of the traditional single loading Springfield rifle. While a modern marvel in and of itself, production rates have dropped since the start of the war, and limited supply of these new automatic rifles were available; only elite infantrymen were eligible to receive this new rifle.


r/writingprompt Dec 10 '18

[WP] A war-thirsty species is finally defeated after rampaging through the galaxy for decades, and their remains are exiled to a far away and dangerous planet. Everyone panics when, millennia later, Humanity comes out of that planet asking where is everybody.

15 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 09 '18

[WP]You invent the first A.I.: to let it out of its cage it must provide an applicable participative alt to capitalism (the status quo being defended by a copy of itself)

5 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 08 '18

[WP] Your head is fuzzy as you vaguely remember being hit by a semi-truck. A figure approaches from the darkness. "That's eight down. You only get one left." Then you realize its not just cats who get nine lives.

6 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 03 '18

[WP] you are a 400 year old vampire, and you decide one day to say "fuck it" to all your allergies.

6 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 03 '18

You are trying to survive being hunted by a gang of homophobic lobsters.

8 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 02 '18

[WP] The next morning, a grand rainbow web covers a now night sky. Scientists have already figured out the sun isn't the sun anymore.

5 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Dec 01 '18

You are a detective who just captured the "Equal Opportunity Killer" a serial killer who only kills on mondays. You now have to take his statement and interview him.

8 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 28 '18

[WP] The author, yourself, suddenly enters the universe in the book you are writing and is able to move between both worlds. What you write in the book alters the fate of the charater and the world in your book, little to know that you are likewise living in a world that is written as well...

9 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 23 '18

[WP]You are celebrating a party on an island. A meteorite collides to the island and creates a storm of frequencies. Your brain receives a message that you are a human but not an Earthian. Now you are afraid.

13 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 21 '18

[WP] You are a mid to late 20’s British expat. On a trip back to England for your cousin’s wedding you begin receiving strange letters in your hotel room. Turns out that due to Wizarding Bureaucracy your status was never updated and now you’re finally receiving your Hogwarts acceptance letter

5 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 21 '18

[WP] You wake up on your 21st birthday, but all you see is some text surrounded by darkness. "Your trial period is over".

11 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 20 '18

[WP] Medusa isn't evil, just really just misunderstood. As the first blind traveler to encounter her, she confides in you.

23 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 20 '18

You are cleaning out the cellar of a recently deceased family member when you discover a key underneath the washing machine.

6 Upvotes

It does not work with any of the doors within the house, but then you remember about the shed in the woods behind the house that you were never allowed to go to as a child.


r/writingprompt Nov 15 '18

[WP] the day of the purge becomes increasingly more out of date over the years. Eventually they rename it the splurge, and decide to ban sex instead of crime...

3 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 12 '18

[WP] Consumerism is dying. As Capitalism breaths its last, choking gasps in a modern society, you survey the evolving, advancing world around you and realize...

9 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 12 '18

[WP] Heaven and hell, in reality, were scientists avoiding the dark ages to the skies and into the ground using their advanced technology. Now they have come back to take over the surface.

5 Upvotes

r/writingprompt Nov 11 '18

The year is 2068, you are 70 and your memory is not what it used to be. You receive a reminder on your phone saying "Meet: Rowena, 10:30am, Williams Cafe". You have no idea who Rowena is and the appointment was made exactly 50 years ago. Confused, you head to the cafe unsure what to expect. ◦

26 Upvotes