Writing Prompts

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 9 months ago • 89%

Immediately after your death, you hear, "focus tester #503, thank you for participating in Earth. Remember: your feedback will likely be incorporated into future updates."

From an AskLemmy question by @SVcross@lemmy.world [Link to Lemmy World Post](https://lemmy.world/post/9685527)

Writing Prompts Wooster • 11 months ago • 75%

[WP] You have an exceptionally bad student in your class. Unfortunately, reality has invariably bends over backwards to make their wrong answers right.

Writing Prompts Wooster • 12 months ago • 84%

[WP] Those who can’t do teach. An atheist leads a religious service and does a better job than the priest—to both their bewilderment.

Writing Prompts Wooster • 12 months ago • 100%

[WP] You never got the memo that your tech support company was bought out by Wizard Craft Inc. and continue to dispense advice as usual.

Writing Prompts pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 100%

[WP] You wake up in a strange place not knowing who you are, and unable to remember anything.

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 90%

You have recently noticed that your friends will do everything you tell them. Is it a prank? A superpower? Doesn't matter. You won't let this opportunity go to waste.

From an AskLemmy post \[[link here](https://lemmy.world/post/4505019)\] by [@TehBamski@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/TehBamski)

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 100%

You have a writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible moment. blog.reedsy.com

Posted September 21st, 2018 on blog.reedsy.com

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 100%

When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world. blog.reedsy.com

Another prompt from the [reedsy list](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/). From September 21st, 2018.

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 100%

"I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today," you told the airline employee. blog.reedsy.com

From blog.reedsy.com, September 21st, 2018.

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 90%

[Meta] How do you folks feel about pulling prompts from writing prompt lists online?

One of the prompts on this list [here](https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/creative-writing-prompts-for-writers) is > "Describe an everyday item as if it's magic." is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt. Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here. Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically. * [100 Creative Writing Prompts for Writers - Writer's Digest](https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/creative-writing-prompts-for-writers) * [reedsyprompt's weekly writing prompts \(1800+ prompts available!\)](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/) I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.) So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 100%

It's our world, (and the events can be ordinary and boring), but the narration and main character's internal monologue are in the tone of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Example: > Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth. > > Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth. > > Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 75%

In the cultivation genre, pushing past limits (and neglecting rest) strengthens one's body, mind, and psychic powers. Recently, someone with anxiety and insomnia got isekai'd into such a world.

Writing Prompts OwenEverbinde • 1 year ago • 100%

Spells require lifespan: more time lost generally yields more power. There's also skill. Anyway, some rich/noble fool just destroyed all the reasons one spell-caster might care about the first part.