- You receive a bizarre voicemail from an unknown number.
- You come across a cryptid while alone one night. They’re actually pretty interesting conversationalists.
- It’s your wedding day and as you’re saying your vows, a voice from the crowd yells, “I object!”
- Write a story in which something seemingly innocent symbolizes something much darker.
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- Write a story inspired by the most recent text message you received.
- A character finds a secret passageway. How did they find it, and where does it lead?
- A character wakes up to find that they’ve body swapped with someone. Who are they now? Who is in their body?
- A characters is warned away from a place. They go to the forbidden place anyway. What do they find?
- A character spends the night alone in an unfamiliar place. The place is haunted. What happens?
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- A road trip happens. Who goes? Who goes with them? Why do they go? Where do they go?
- A character experienced something unusual as a child. Write from the perspective of the char’s child self.
- A character receives a letter from their future self.
- A character dies, only to find that they have been reincarnated on a different world, alternate universe, or fictional setting.
- A character discovers they have the ability to transport themselves through time with no severe repercussions. They cannot change anything on a large scale, but they can change *one* thing from their past. What do they change and why?
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- One of your characters meets one or multiple characters from a different game. What happens? Do they get along?
- A day in the life of a genie who annoyingly keeps getting summoned by inept humans.
- Write a story inspired by the last sentence of any book you own.
- Every day when you get home, you rant to your pet about how awful your day was. One day they start talking back — to give you a dose of tough love.
- The whole town knows about it. The black shadow on the baby monitor. Sudden changed diapers or meals ready for kids when they get home. Cleaned rooms and drawn baths. It is known as The Babysitter. It will never harm a child, but heaven help those who don’t pay for its services.
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- Seven demons (sins) come to tempt you, but you’re so down on your luck that they feel bad for you… Greed teaches you financing, Sloth provides stress relief, Envy motivates you to be more competitive and therefore successful, Wrath gets you involved in activism, etc.
- Write a story about one event from the different perspectives of multiple friends.
- Write a story about someone who finds a magical portal in their home.
- Write a story about someone who keeps coming across the same stranger.
- Before bed, you put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time. When you wake up, you realize you’ve gone forward a lot more than one hour.
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- Write a story that includes characters who are aware they are a work of fiction.
- Write about a person who meets with the ghost of an old friend for tea every so often.
- Write about a date that was so terrible you’ll never forget it.
- Write about someone (or something) you loved that you shouldn’t have.
- Write a story around the theme: Be careful what you wish for.
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- Write a scene that puts a character or characters from a fairy tale in a different situation. What is different from their original story? How do they adapt to this change?
- You are an astronaut at the ISS. You are looking out of the porthole when you see the Earth ‘blink’, disappearing for a fraction of a second. You brush it off after checking in with ground control. However, Upon your return to Earth you start noticing that something is very wrong.
- Heaven is doing budget cuts and as a result instead of one angel and one devil on each shoulder humans will now just have one morally grey guy
- You have just taken over your late crazy aunt’s store–and discovered that security is a troll, the night clerk is a vampire, the manager is an elf, and they all warn you about “Crazy Steve” who works in the back.
- You realize that you are an NPC that has gained sentience. Your goal is to identify the player and prevent them from progressing, because God knows what will happen once they finish the game and quit playing.
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- A cult is about to sacrifice you to their god. The god they are about to sacrifice you to…is your dad.
- A new app on the market called Spectr claims that it allows you to match with ghosts that want your help to solve the mystery around how they died, and you’re one of the first users