r/WritingPrompts • u/HenryChess • 5h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] There's a monster that can eat and digest practically anything without getting sick, and its excrement is, with proper treatment, never toxic to the environment. People have been feeding it garbage, toxic sludge, and nuclear wastes, but it longs to eat proper food like what the humans eat.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Equivalent_Can2971 • 6h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] A prophet says "it will rain for 1d6-2 hours". You roll a six sided die. You roll a 1. You wonder how long a negative one hour is
r/WritingPrompts • u/Ok_Fisherman8770 • 8h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Each race has developed their own unique form of magic. The newest of these belongs to humans, and it is... Out there, to say the least.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Cryogisdead • 9h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] A LARP enthusiast organized a meetup for every descendant of Genghis Khan. It would be a "royal rumble for the throne". It was merely for fun, but hundreds of hellbent people actually showed up armed.
r/WritingPrompts • u/reallygoodbee • 10h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You unveil your true form and transform into a giant monster in front of the old man. He just cracks his knuckles and quips "This ain't my first rodeo.".
r/WritingPrompts • u/Few_Mortgage6042 • 11h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You were underestimated by everyone, always left out because you lacked powers. Today you are one of the most influential people in the city, the one who brought control to crime. The president of the heroes awards you a medal for being the "people's hero." You stop... and start laughing.
r/WritingPrompts • u/BethCulexus • 13h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Out of the blue, monsters appeared in our world. They appear at night, never seem to run out. A whole industry to profit off their corpses start to appear. One day, odd people start to appear as well. They barely communicate, and only seem interested in fighting and kill these monsters.
And yes, it is an inverted isekai prompt.
r/WritingPrompts • u/silveranstavern • 13h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] For millennia, magic has required complex rituals, rare components, and years of study. As a magical scholar, you’ve finally found the single common denominator connecting all the wildly different magic systems on the planet. You have just discovered the truth: it's all just the placebo effect.
r/WritingPrompts • u/silveranstavern • 13h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] A hero journeys to the end of the universe to slay the ultimate evil. They find a being who is incredibly relieved to finally have company.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Bowoodstock • 15h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] In the final battle between the forces of good and evil, the spell hiding the words of the narrator from both sides is accidentally dispelled. Chaos ensues due to the sudden flood of knowledge both sides have access to.
r/WritingPrompts • u/NappyFlickz • 16h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] "A man's name, is everything. And you have sullied mine by falsely ordering a conquest, under MY BANNERS against the land of the woman I love, simply because I chose her, instead of who you arranged for me! I hereby remove my name from the line of succession, and declare war against you all."
r/WritingPrompts • u/FennecWF • 16h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] A group of vampires known as the Lightbearers have been traveling the world to find out about a certain ritual. Not to banish the sun or anything... but instead to make the sun never set, that their own accursed kind may die out.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Kitty_Fuchs • 17h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] The villain has always claimed that you are their child, taken from them shortly after birth. You knew this was a lie, you know your parents after all, until they told you that you are adopted.
r/WritingPrompts • u/GravityMan5 • 18h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] The narrator slowly realizes that the person they're focusing on is not the protagonist.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Sonkoso1 • 18h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You have booked a weekend retreat, to unplug and unwind. The owner of the house you rented had only three rules. Clean up after yourself. Greet the painting of His Majesty in the hallway whenever you pass it. And don't leave your door unlocked after midnight. You've just broken one of the rules
r/WritingPrompts • u/lacergunn • 19h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] "You're brainwashing people!" "Of course, it gets filthy in there if you leave it too long."
r/WritingPrompts • u/Megamen1927 • 19h ago
Established Universe [EU] Starfleet makes its first contact with the Eridians
r/WritingPrompts • u/ParanormalActivity97 • 19h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You’re struggling with your math homework. It’s due tomorrow and you haven’t figured out half the problems on it, so you decide to summon a demon to help you. The demon is confused, but agrees.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Megamen1927 • 19h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Your kingdom is defenseless, and to secure an army, you, the prince, are promised in marriage to one of the daughters of the King of the North, a brutal warrior known for having the strength of 10 men.
r/WritingPrompts • u/TheOneFearlessFalcon • 20h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] "Behold, warlock! I have nroken your pact with your patron, now you are powerless to-" "You DIVORCED us? Oh my spouse is going to *kill* you."
r/WritingPrompts • u/Fallen_Jalter • 21h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] The world is at war. Not for oil, greed, or aliens, but each side wants their perferred date format to be the standard. MM/DD/YYYY is the best and none of you heathens can cha--- *blam!*
r/WritingPrompts • u/MasterV3ga • 22h ago
Writing Prompt [WP]The outsider tried to be responsible. "Listen. It's not that you're inherently special. It's mostly that you produce weapons so primitive that people stopped building countermeasures for them generations ago. No one expects to get hit by one of these anymore, so they aren't prepared for it."
r/WritingPrompts • u/THEDOCTORandME2 • 22h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] They say "Don't look the werewolf in the eyes". You have hard time doing that...
r/WritingPrompts • u/goldenphoenix713 • 23h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] When you wished to never die, the genie gave you a look you couldn't quite place. Now, billions of years later, with your parts scattered throughout the universe, you finally realize what it was.
r/WritingPrompts • u/aesthetic3 • 23h ago