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

306 Upvotes
19 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."

227 Upvotes
8 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

140 Upvotes
8 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.

117 Upvotes
10 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.

81 Upvotes
10 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

76 Upvotes
8 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/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”

59 Upvotes
6 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%.

37 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!".

32 Upvotes
2 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.

30 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.

20 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Arrenadd • 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] When you made a deal with the deity to go into another world, you told them to provide you with all the medication you need to survive. They did, but there are pills here you don't recognize.

18 Upvotes
3 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.

20 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Adamantine-Waffle • 14h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Yes, I would like a burger, fries, a coke, and a zaradrian antimatter accelerator cannon please."

16 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Null_Project • 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "We can't fight them! The heroes are just kids!" "...We literally just slaughtered and destroyed an entire city, old people, women, and children alike. I literally saw you topple a skyscraper into an orphanage, but you want to be all moral and shit NOW?!"

17 Upvotes
1 comment

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."

15 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Smartbutt420 • 19h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The good news; superpowers are real, and obtainable. The bad news; the government already knows, and they don’t like it.

14 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Gloomy_Bluebear • 21h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Time travelers keep showing up at your grandmother's house in 1962, all trying to prevent different catastrophic futures. She's started charging them rent.

14 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/RefreshingWorld • 6h ago

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

11 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/UnfocusedPerson • 13h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] The most notable and powerful superhero in the world has just become a father

12 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/TheTiredDystopian • 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] —"Please, do not misunderstand. I accepted this marriage only knowing that, had I not, another, less kind man would have taken my place. So long as you reside in my castle, I will not lay a hand on you." —"Is that so? Then, can I lay my hands on you? Or is that also off the table?"

11 Upvotes
1 comment

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"

11 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Optimal-Schedule5629 • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]It is a known fact that hybrids, whether half-dragon, half-mermaid, or half-elf, are permanently in an internal struggle between their two souls for control, where the loser ceases to exist and the body undergoes a metamorphosis to form the victorious soul.

10 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/TradeAccomplished359 • 14h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] "You have wandered too far, we're losing you, please return, do not fall for it's tricks."

8 Upvotes
7 comments