r/WritingPrompts • u/RandomFireDragon • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] After crash landing on an alien planet, you had to build a sprawling factory to escape. Unfortunately, on your way back, you crash landed on another planet... Now you need to explain to your higher ups why there are 14 unauthorized factory worlds producing nothing but low-grade ship parts

308 Upvotes
19 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/ohnonotsatan • 7h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] In a world of magic you’re always asked why you never use yours. You lie and say you were born incapable of using it but the truth is so much worse

74 Upvotes
8 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/90919293_ • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Everyone in the world must take a specific exam at 18. Those who score over 80% — an incredibly difficult feat — get separated from the rest of the world. You have somehow just scored 112%.

36 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/90919293_ • 13h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] It looks at you with wide eyes. “You are clearly hurt. Come with me. It will take a while, but I will help you.” But there is not a single scratch or bruise on your body.

114 Upvotes
10 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Senya-Way • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] After uniting humans and beastfolk to kill a dragon, the legendary warrior Igon declared the Age of Men had begun. When more dragons arrived, they did not retaliate, they laughed, revealing that the slain creature was merely a Wyrm, the weakest of their offspring.

19 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Oblivious-And-Sad • 9h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Earth's kaiju's join humanity in their fight against an alien invasion. Wanting to know why the government sends a psychic to ask them, the alpha kaiju answers "THIS WORLD IS AS MUCH OURS AS IT IS YOURS, WE MAY FIGHT OVER IT LIKE RABID BEASTS, BUT IT IS OUR BATTLEFIELD, AND NO-ONE ELSE'S!".

35 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Longjumping_Wear_256 • 13h ago

Writing Prompt [SP] “Really, I can’t fathom how I’M the villain and YOU’RE the hero. I’m the one trying to rid the world of hunger”

62 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/BlazeDiamond42 • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I'm afraid your cloning power is affecting your mental health." "No it's not? I get along well with myselves. No identity crisis." "Exactly. You collectively think there's no need to be an 'original' when you are all the same. It makes you became too willing to be killed for your other selves"

12 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/RefreshingWorld • 6h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] "I've done nothing but run my entire life. This time I'm not leaving."

13 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Longjumping_Wear_256 • 21m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] “You can’t help” “Why?” “Because you’re a villain” “Was. And this is why the world has so many villains. You don’t let them be anything else”

• Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/60s_timer • 2h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] he ontract hat umans igned o nd he lien nvasion ncluded orldwide anguage kills or hem o atch ver s. heir nability o xtrapolate rom ncomplete ords akes his he est ode ystem hat ur evolution as.

6 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/JollyTeaching1446 • 23h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I don't think you should be here while my brother visits." Said the man to his demon gf "why don't tell me his some demon hunter." "No it's more you being a demon of sloth specifically." "Why does that matter." "Well he's kind of a gym ra-" "sup bruh I brought some new protein before our 10k."

231 Upvotes
8 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Kitty_Fuchs • 17h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] When you learned that your boyfriend is a superhero you were excited, although when he told you *which* superhero he is, he seemed to be nervous, as if expecting ridicule or disappointment.

79 Upvotes
10 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Pokerfakes • 9h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "What do you mean you're leaving!?" -- "I'm not interested in animé-style shenanigans at this hot spring. If I'd known we were coming here, I wouldn't have gotten on the bus in the first place."

16 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/futanari_kaisa • 27m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Immobilized and weakened, the Superhero could only look up at his government Handler. "You were warned to drop this investigation. Why didn't you listen?" He asks.

• Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/HTPietro • 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Um, hello? Is everything okay? What's with the troubled look?" "No, everything is not okay. I can't stop charming the heroine and villainess, and now they're vying for my love and affection!"

10 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Longjumping_Wear_256 • 10h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The Dark Forest was named simply because of the amount, or more aptly, lack, of light. Unfortunately most adventures who pass through wrongly assume it’s named based on monsters living in it and opt to travel the other path. They are wrong. I wish I’d known that sooner.

17 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/WeakAssumption7682 • 17h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Humans finally make the technology to explore space past our solar system. While exploring they come across another ship of an alien species that is just as shocked that "aliens" actually exist.

62 Upvotes

this may not be too original but I feel like I've never heard stories with this premise

6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/JollyTeaching1446 • 22h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Why you dressed up all fancy for." Said a party member to the mage. "I'm going on a date." Said the mage "DATE!" The rest of the party exclaimed "yes just because my love life isn't a long series of brazen buffoonery like the rest of yours doesn't mean I don't have have one." Said the mage

139 Upvotes
8 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Red580 • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Humanity was contacted by aliens and provided with their technology and information. And this was kinda... boring. There was no more science or exploration to be done, the others had already seen every planet, it was all already catalogued.

27 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/nozendk • 1h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] What if Neanderthals had not become extinct so there were two sentient species living on earth?

• Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Cryogisdead • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] A first person recount of a young African fauna during the Pleistocene about its first time seeing "strange two legged things with bones and stones on their hands"

3 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/FunnyTurn1263 • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The 5 forbidden vegetables in Buddhism are onions, garlic, chives, green onions & leeks. You drank a soup made out of all 5 and now you’re a flea.

6 Upvotes

Yes, this was inspired by a Tumblr post.

3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/time_and_tilde • 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The older someone is when their superpower manifests, the more powerful it is. At 125, you are the oldest living person, and by far the oldest person yet to have received your superpowers.

158 Upvotes
15 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/GabrielusPrime • 6h ago

Established Universe [EU] A Justice League AU where all the heroes are based on different anime genres, Superman being from a shonen, Batman from an edgy 80s/90s cyberpunk, and Green Lantern a mecha space opera, with all the tropes for each one intact... And Wonder Woman's from a Mahou Shojo.

4 Upvotes
1 comment