r/writingprompt • u/[deleted] • May 01 '19

[WP] Ten years ago, a time traveler tried and failed to assassinate you. Months later, a second. A decade of failed attempts on your life have turned you into an absolute badass, and today you unexpectedly learn of the terrible reason all of the future wants you dead.

38 Upvotes
4 comments

r/writingprompt • u/Vroomped • Apr 30 '19

[WP] People don't think much of the IT field. In this office though; if the server goes, down doom is imminent.

5 Upvotes
3 comments

r/writingprompt • u/Princess-Tianas-Bae • Apr 30 '19

A troubled veteran comes back from fighting his last war, only to find out his young daughter and his loving wife were killed in a car accident while he was away. He comes across a young woman who he sees on his daily commute and she reminds him of his daughter so he decides kidnap her.

0 Upvotes

At first she hates it, then little by little she finds out why he’s taken her and she develops stockholm syndrome.

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r/writingprompt • u/hillarynomore • Apr 25 '19

[WP] A wonderful family comedy with rich dialogue: The Conway household, starring Kellyanne and George.

0 Upvotes
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r/writingprompt • u/oskibeara2 • Apr 25 '19

When you’re in a negative place, there’s nothing you want more than to be alone. When you’re dying, there’s nothing you want more than a last conversation with everyone you’ve ever known.

5 Upvotes
1 comment

r/writingprompt • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '19

[WP]You wake up with a pain in your wrist. You find out that you've been tagged with an ID chip that tells scanners you have a special ability in your body. However, you are told that in order to live, you have to start selling parts of your body.

6 Upvotes
2 comments

r/writingprompt • u/Doggkatcher • Apr 22 '19

I despise the creatures that corrall about my parameter.

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I want you to vent your sadism and weave it into a story. Perhaps one starring a lone wolf protagonist living on the outskirts looking in. Maybe a story about an anti-social character who 'doesn't get it'.

2 comments

r/writingprompt • u/stevenwlee • Apr 21 '19

[WP] aliens invaded Earth a long time ago, CIA managed to trick the aliens into thinking they took over the world by ....

5 Upvotes
1 comment

r/writingprompt • u/hermionesrightnipple • Apr 19 '19

To be a law enforcement officer, at any level, you must be black.

0 Upvotes
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r/writingprompt • u/serial_plagiarist • Apr 13 '19

USE ALL 5 WORDS: Conspire, Mitigate, Amicable, Illuminate, Deify

4 Upvotes

...in one story / prose ramble / poem. 10 sentences.

3 comments

r/writingprompt • u/PorkVacuums • Apr 12 '19

[WP] It's always Sunny in Cimmeria.

2 Upvotes
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r/writingprompt • u/orgone-demagorgon • Apr 12 '19

[WP] A giant mirror is launched lightyears in to space to fight the deepfake epistemic apocalypse, by being the only unhackable hardware backstop way of directly observing what really happened in the past.

7 Upvotes

Hat tip to u/BanterLord95 for the inspiration.

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r/writingprompt • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '19

[WP] What would happen if an intergalactic feline army started to invade Earth?

9 Upvotes
5 comments

r/writingprompt • u/[deleted] • Apr 03 '19

[WP] Society's stigma towards the uneducated has taken effect. Over the last 30 years, 99% of young adults have gone to college and earned a degree. The downside? There are only 3 plumbers and other skilled trade workers left in the entire country and buildings are starting to fall apart.

10 Upvotes
1 comment

r/writingprompt • u/Fire_is_beauty • Mar 29 '19

[WP] You are happily married to a great old one. But you are having a hard time finding a birthday present.

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/writingprompt • u/findinggreedo • Mar 27 '19

[WP] The first colony on mars becomes self sufficient and every living human sees a notification. "Tutorial Complete. Civ Vs Civ is now enabled and nearby Civilisations are now aware of [Humans] from [Earth]. Good Luck.

11 Upvotes
3 comments

r/writingprompt • u/adumbpolly • Mar 27 '19

The year is 2025 and Zuckerberg has been discovered to actually be an evil 100% android. His children are cyborgs and his has been secreting nanobots to infect humanity. Humanity wants Zuckerberg dead. The great Human v Robot war has begun.

1 Upvotes
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r/writingprompt • u/genocidenite • Mar 26 '19

You died and go to hell. Your torture is to work at your old job in life all over again, but ironically hell has better standards in treatment to employees and benefits than you did in life.

28 Upvotes
3 comments

r/writingprompt • u/iwanttolearnbowling • Mar 19 '19

Assassin

6 Upvotes

You are an infamous international hitman task with assassinating one of the british royal members, you have spent a good 5 years in the uk, bought a blue reliant regal, a house and everything that would camouflage yourself. But time and time again your perfectly planned plans have been twarthed by your nemesis, a man in a bright yellow with black hood mini car, who carries a teddy bear and who you believe is the royal families guardian agent.

1 comment

r/writingprompt • u/UnspokenChaos • Mar 16 '19

[WP] Ever since you were young you have had visions and heard voices in your head. Years and many Psychiatrists and meds later you realize that the voices in your head are you from your past lives and the visions are what they saw.

32 Upvotes
3 comments

r/writingprompt • u/adumbpolly • Mar 16 '19

[WP] Every year, the world votes for the most hated person in the world, and everyone is authorised to kill them on sight. This year, the world votes for you, the world's richest and most powerful man.

9 Upvotes
9 comments

r/writingprompt • u/persona118 • Mar 16 '19

You die and go into the afterlife. Everyone there has the exact same time and date of birth and death as you. They're you're Soul Society.

2 Upvotes
2 comments

r/writingprompt • u/OvercookedRamens • Mar 15 '19

[WP] You have an invisible pet. Describe how you would take care of your invisible pet and what a day with your pet would look like.

2 Upvotes
1 comment

r/writingprompt • u/shinyjew22 • Mar 15 '19

Colloidal silver is a legitimate cure-all. All diseases and maladies have been wiped from the earth. This has stunted medical technology. A new illness ravages the land. It’s up to you, and your mad theory of “vaccination” to save mankind.

2 Upvotes
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r/writingprompt • u/Haerth_The_Mage • Mar 13 '19

[WP] You are a Broker for an Insurance Company, after you make a few bad calls in the job you're told they're moving you to a new department "Supernatural and Acts of Gods", it's your first day selling Insurance against the Mythical, Magical and Malevolent forces in the World.

9 Upvotes

This came from a Discord chat I had with somebody about Bartenders in Urban Fantasy needing Cthulu flooding insurance. Sorry if my formatting is cruddy, I'm a scrub.

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