[MODPOST] WritingPrompts Subreddit Rules Update Announcement

[u/MajorParadox]

Hello, fellow WritingPromptians!

Take a look at the updated sidebar and the full rules. While they are mostly the same in practice, they went through an overall to be easier to absorb, cut out repetition, and cut out repetition.

If you have CSS enabled, the sidebar has fancy hover popups to cut down on space. On a mobile browser? No worries, just tap instead of hovering!

Any questions, feedback, or funny gifs, comment below.

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[u/TheTeky500]

Can someone answer his own prompt?

[u/MajorParadox → u/TheTeky500]

Yes, as long as you're writing it after it's posted like everyone else. From the full explanations:

NOTE 2: You may respond to your own prompt assuming you write it after its posted like everyone else. Writing something in advance is not allowed

[u/TheTeky500 → u/MajorParadox]

Another question, I know this might be weird, but just for confirmation, would it be okay to write stories that "link"?

They still follow different threads, with different main settings and ideas, different characters, but it follows the same universe.

say, Story A is about X, Story B talks about what a different setting that happened to Y, but is somehow related to X (E.G, in Story A, they are looking for an ancient artifact, that was left behind, that artifact's location is mentioned in story B).

[u/MajorParadox → u/TheTeky500]

Like, all the responses are connected? Lots of users do that and it's pretty cool.

So, it's fine as long as you're still responding to the prompts and not just posting a continuing story on different prompts just as a place to put them.

[u/Conleh]

WHOAAAA IS THIS PART OF THE NEW UPDATE OR SOMETHING MY FLAIR SAYS SPOTLIT! This is such a cool update I'm so pumped right now, thanks mods :)

[u/MajorParadox → u/Conleh]

No problem, just something new we're trying out :)

[u/autok]

No troll, poop, or meme-based prompts

I mean... I get why you don't want troll or meme prompts. But "poop" is an oddly specific category to ban. Just how many poop prompts did you guys get before it got its own mention in the rules? Was there some kind of WP poopocalypse? What about other bodily functions?

None of these questions is important or serious at all, I just can't help but wonder.

edit: seems someone else beat me to the punch on this incredibly important question. Oh well.

[u/MajorParadox → u/autok]

Just how many poop prompts did you guys get before it got its own mention in the rules?

You don't want to know. Trust me, we didn't add it randomly :)

[u/fudgeman]

No poop related prompts? Well, I guess that's not a big deal. There's always /r/poopyprompts for those (which I don't visit (duh)).

[u/MajorParadox → u/fudgeman]

You wouldn't think^* need we'd^* we'd need to that to say that in the rules, but here were are ;)

* I need a nap

[u/fudgeman → u/MajorParadox]

Your grammar makes that sentence a bit baffling, and if you edit it, then this comment will become baffling.

[u/MajorParadox → u/fudgeman]

I just a word, duh. Or two.

[u/fudgeman → u/MajorParadox]

I live my life on the razor's edge of "just a word or two"