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Yet Another 20 Prompts to Kickstart Your Writing



So it's Friday and you've got nothing to do, so you might as well sit down and crunch a good story. The hard part is coming up with something to write about, fortunately, here are some more writing prompts just in case you need a little bit of inspiration.

You can also check out the first and second parts of this series by clicking on the links


  1. Make your character as miserable as humanly possible
  2. Write about some place that you avoid in real life
  3. Take a story with common tropes, and make them stand out from the rest
  4. Make two characters with the same name, and distinguish them only through dialogue
  5. The whole world uses the same currency now
  6. Establish a character's greatness, and destroy it by the end of the story
  7. Take an everyday habit of yours and make it a horror story
  8. Everyone can only speak in rhyme, and they hate it
  9. The universe hates your character and always stacks the odds against him
  10. Aliens have invaded, but humanity can barely comprehend them
  11. Write about a glitch in the Matrix
  12. Make a villain who is actually the good guy
  13. Attach your emotions to an inanimate object
  14. Invent a story behind your favorite sculpture
  15. Take a great concept that was wasted on a bad movie or game
  16. Write about your favorite trip
  17. What is the opposite of a Mary Sue?
  18. Think of an ideal time, and write why it wasn't
  19. What if we didn't use oil as fuel?
  20. Nuclear winter, how does the world survive?

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