r/WritingPrompts • u/Ok_Fisherman8770 • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Usually, when people try to beat Death at chess, it's so they can resume living. You, a chess grandmaster, just wanted one last game before you went, and Death is pleasantly surprised.

197 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/LivingLab12 • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Nuclear weapons didn't work, our most advanced technology did nothing. How did you stop the Horror from Beyond the Stars?" You shrug. "I gave it a steam account and a credit card with 1 million dollars."

181 Upvotes
9 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Clear_Ad4106 • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] After the maid single handedly dispatches your attackers you confront your parents about giving you a secret bodyguard without telling you anything. As it turns out, they didn't know she could do that either.

152 Upvotes
9 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/HonestAbe1809 • 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] As counter-productive as it may seem, older healing potions are actually more effective. Aging in a cool dry place like a dungeon can often do wonders for a potion.

112 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Free-Stomach-1485 • 23h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] A gateway opens in Australia to a dangerous new world. At first, it seems like nothing is different. Australians are used to dangerous wildlife after all. Nothing that comes through could be that much worse right?

96 Upvotes
11 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Semblance-of-sanity • 23h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]The real reason necromancy is banned is that if you speak with the dead you could learn the true history of the world.

79 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Crystal_1501 • 10h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are a dragon living on the outskirts of a village. They often give you treasure not because they fear you but so you would protect them. You have guarded this village for centuries.

65 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/LivingLab12 • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are standing in a bar when a beautiful woman with flowing golden hair and white dress captures your gaze. "Don't even think about it." The multi-tentacled bartender says. "What is she? An elder god? Great old one?" The bartender swivels a giant red eye to you. "Worse, she's an Angel."

44 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Penforge • 9h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Superpowers were engineered by the government for a war. The war is over. Now, the soldiers who wield them are being hunted down as weapons.

31 Upvotes

I have been writing stories about a world like this for years. It’s a dark sandbox full of shadows. I’m quite curious to see what other writers pull from it.

7 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Kitty_Fuchs • 14h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The people are petrified of witchcraft, but as a witch yourself you are not in any more danger than any ordinary citizen, since non-witches are utterly inept at recognising witchcraft. You do hate seeing innocent people suffer though.

30 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/IAmOEreset • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] When you activated the machine to serve and protect humanity, your colleagues were worried it may backfire. The machine works just fine, they were worried for nothing. Outside of humanity's sight however, the machine is a Skynet for aliens.

26 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Practical_History111 • 17h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] As a necromancer, you need bones for you golem and other things. Luckily for you, your main job as a dentist gets you plenty of teeth to work with.

25 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Worldly_Lab_7061 • 21h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] After a girls trip leads to a bloody massacre of all your friends, you are the only one left standing. The killer is still lurking in the house, but now you have a weapon, a car, and desire for vengeance.

19 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Maximum-Koala3640 • 22h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The four knights of the apocalypse shall come to earth to enact it's judgement day. These four knights appeared and became waffle house employees 1000 years after the so called judgement day

18 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Alternative_Fig_6859 • 9h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are a contestant on a dating show. In the presence of models and celebrities, you fall in love with the cameraman.

16 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/FunnyTurn1263 • 7h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Death has a daughter who he wants to take his role when he retires, but she wants to be a botanist.

14 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/damnitineedaname • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] It was all too much. The Eternal Servants were mechanical men. The Great Claw was just a common lobster. Our entire religion- our lives, all based on some kind of joke from an old dead world.

11 Upvotes

Based on the lobster god meme/copypasta.

1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Megamen1927 • 17h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] From the producers of *An American Werewolf in London* comes: *A Mexican Vampire in Spain*.

11 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/ParanormalActivity97 • 20h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Your older sister is a witch, and as a prank, she magics a giant toad onto your face. It won't come off—but you quickly discover it gives incredibly useful, hyper-specific life advice.

9 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/ParanormalActivity97 • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You’re enjoying a late-night stroll on a crowded cruise ship deck when you notice someone standing by the railing, staring out at the ocean. As you walk past, they turn around. It's you.

8 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/FirstSineOfMadness • 2h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You pause last week’s security tape as the wide eyed creature appears for a single frame, staring into the eyes of its victim. Glancing away then looking back, you see the creature in the paused video frame now has its head turned to the camera, and its eyes staring directly into yours.

7 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Downbound_Re-Bound • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Okay class, flip your Holographs to 'the Ancient American Civilization.' Quote, 'After the War, the People created Congress; She had no body, so She created Her Siblings: Justice and Enforcement.' Now, can anyone remember what their Founding War Myth was? C'mon, we just studied it yesterday.."

7 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/younGrandon • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] I never knew when they'd show up; never knew where they'd appear, or necessarily why. I could never stop them or convince them to bugger off either, though I'd come to anticipate their spontaneous interruptions to my otherwise repetitious life.

6 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Sliprunner • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] As you handle the belongings of your great grandparents estate, you find a locked iron box. Inside on velvet padding lay a blackened unicorn horn.

6 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/plogan56 • 10h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "why was i sent to hell, i lived a good & just life?", the demon checks her paperwork, "oh no, you ARE the punishment", she then led me to a luxury resort where sinners were forced to watch me enjoy what they can't😈

5 Upvotes
1 comment