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Writing prompts
Drafts, edits, rewrites. For when the words exist but refuse to line up.
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- creative Write a Short Story Confined to One Room
Write a story where the single location does work that a bigger canvas could not.
- creative Write a Scene Told Entirely Through Dialogue
Write a scene where the dialogue has to do everything the prose normally would.
- creative Write an Unreliable Narrator Opening
Write a narrator your reader should not quite trust from the first paragraph.
- creative Write a Character Through Their Daily Objects
Reveal a character entirely through the objects around them, without description.
- creative Write a Children's Story Concept
Develop a children's story idea that has real structure, not just a nice premise.
- play Create a Faction With Real Internal Politics for Your Campaign
Build a faction your players will not be able to read in one session.
- work Write a Pitch Deck Story
Build the narrative spine of a pitch deck before a single slide is designed.
- creative Write Dialogue That Reveals Character
Write dialogue where every line tells you who is speaking without the name.
- creative Write a Short Memoir Scene
Write a memoir scene that shows the moment rather than telling what it meant.
- play Write a Character Backstory for a Tabletop RPG
Write a character backstory your GM can actually use at the table.
- creative Write a Fantasy World Creation Myth
Write the creation myth your fictional world has always believed.
- play Design a Magic System for Your Fantasy World
Build a magic system with actual rules, costs, and limits that hold up.
- life Write a Complaint Letter That Gets a Response
Write a complaint letter that gets taken seriously and acted on.
- creative Write a Scene with No Dialogue
Write a scene that works entirely through action and detail, no dialogue.
- self Write a Personal Mission Statement That Is Not Embarrassing
Write a mission statement you will not cringe at in six months.
- creative Write a Villain Who Is Genuinely Sympathetic
Write an antagonist the reader understands, not just one they can boo.
- creative Summarise Your Creative Output This Month Into a Personal Archive Entry
Turn this month's creative work into a record your future self will actually find useful.
- creative Compare Realism and Genre Fiction as Creative Modes to Work In
Work out whether you are a realist or a genre writer before you are three chapters into the wrong choice.
- creative Reframe Creative Work You Have Been Sitting On
Get clear on what the creative project is actually waiting for rather than that it is 'not ready'.
- creative Compare First-Person and Third-Person Limited Narration for Your Story
Choose the point of view your story actually needs rather than the one you default to.
- creative Critique Your Own Writing for Patterns That Weaken It
Find the writing habit that is quietly weakening everything you produce.
- creative Reframe the Blank Page as an Unanswered Question
Find the question behind the unstarted project and let that be the first line.
- creative Critique a Creative Brief Before Anyone Does the Work
Find what the brief is asking people to guess before they start working.
- creative Compare Two Narrative Points of View for the Same Story Idea
Work out which point of view makes your story work before you write 30,000 words in the wrong one.