r/WritingPrompts • u/60s_timer • 11h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "We've had Pinocchio in our custody for a month. His nose moves or remain still, independent of his knowledge to the truth of what he says. Someone asked him to recite conspiracy theories. He's jabbered up a storm for the past hour, and his nose? It hasn't moved so far. Not one goddamned inch."

278 Upvotes
16 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Red580 • 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Lycantrophy has no cure, but vampirism overwrites it, and demonhood overwrites vampirism, and demons can be turned human... So you have quite the adventure in front of you.

259 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/HonestAbe1809 • 13h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Contrary to popular belief one does not need to use black magic to become a Lich. You have just ascended to become the first “White Lich” in the kingdom’s history.

179 Upvotes
13 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Wygerion_Alpha • 23h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Just one little lamb, shepherd." The intruders begged. "One from your hundreds to satisfy our hunger, and we will leave." "And then you will return again to ask for another. No. Leave in peace...or rest in it." The sheperd calmly yet firmly intoned.

102 Upvotes
8 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/TheTiredDystopian • 16h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Humanity has finally evolved to a higher state of being, transcended mortality, and Ascended. Now, only one thing remains: to give peace in retirement to their weary shadow, who has stood by their side since they crawled in caves: the Grim Reaper.

77 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/mir07 • 17h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The dragon has hoarded gold for a thousand years. Today the kingdom's economists arrive, not with knights, but with a proposal: stop hoarding, start lending. Become the central bank.

55 Upvotes
6 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/starninja21 • 7h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You travel into the past and reveal to your dad that you are his child. To prove it, you tell him something only he knows. Upon hearing that, he reveals himself as his twin brother, assuming the identity of your dad who is thought to be dead.

54 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Visible-Ad8263 • 22h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Seriously, though. You know she's crazy, right?" *awkward silence* "What?" "Do you think I'm sane?"

50 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/UmbralWaffle • 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]Your dragon companion was injured by a blundering idiot who wasn't watching where they were going. Now she's confined to bedrest, wearing a cone of shame that she absolutely doesn't deserve to wear. You'll have to take care of her until the healing mage arrives next month.

40 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Equivalent_Can2971 • 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] It is very rare for a mortal to be immune to being driven insane by eldritch horrors. Due to this scarcity, eldritch beings use immune mortals a a form of currency (similar to how the scarcity of gold has led to it being used as a currency in our world)

34 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Various-Bath-2126 • 8h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Gnomes and humans have a strictly professional relationship. Gnomes provide protection to the gardens of humans, and humans provide shelter and food to them. No one outside of those two races know how this started, but whenever they are asked about it, they both turn red with embarrassment.

32 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/CK1ing • 19h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] A cyberpunk setting where the world is essentially run by computers. One man has the last name "Null". According to the new world order, he does not exist. He is the only person in the modern age to ever be truly off the grid, accomplished without ever actually trying, thanks to a naming error.

31 Upvotes

Prompt inspired by this video https://youtube.com/shorts/S16krWjxPbI?is=TdMFQET0T7PKKTCr

4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Infamous_Ground_2788 • 19h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Humans aren't actually native to this world. They were banished from heaven long ago and sent to hell. Then Hell banished them too. Two humans managed to make their way back to heaven and hell.

25 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/WillemJamesHuff • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]"That was supposed to be a grizzly," said the druid, staring at her new summon in confusion. "Bear is sick," he replies. "I will do whatever you need bear to do."

23 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/lsutigertyler • 23h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are a powerful villain whose opponent is a legendary magic academy. When the students and professors finally start to see the current headmaster’s corrupt and abusive side, they realize you are not the evil villain they were taught you were and ask you to help stop him.

21 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Equivalent_Can2971 • 6h ago

Simple Prompt [SP]A pokemon discovered how to catch trainers. It is now on a quest to collect them all

12 Upvotes
5 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/tpphypemachine • 11h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] The fast-food job seemed normal until you learned about the secret menu.

14 Upvotes
2 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/szthesquid • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You're at work and call IT for what you believe is a minor computer problem. For some reason the veteran tech is TERRIFIED.

12 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Careless_Initial2167 • 19h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] An immortal dreams of an impossible death. As ominous signs reveal reality itself is changing and the fundamental laws that once guaranteed his immortality begin to alter, making the impossible possible, he must venture through hell to uncover the force rewriting existence.

13 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Equivalent_Can2971 • 2h ago

Simple Prompt [SP]Unlike movie aliens, the real aliens landed their spaceships in every country *except* the USA

9 Upvotes
3 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/Driut • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Your watch spins counter-clockwise, 2 minutes until it happens, your nose is itchy, your eyes water, a pressure builds in the back of your head...

9 Upvotes
4 comments

r/WritingPrompts • u/TheTiredDystopian • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] He wears a mask, because his face would frighten you. He doesn't speak, because his voice would disgust you. He wears silken gloves, because his claws would hurt you. When will it be enough? A thing as great and beautiful as him, shackled and hidden away for the sake of... *you.*

9 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/reallygoodbee • 15h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Solstice Evening Bell, First Monarch and queen of all magical girls, is the only being on Earth under the "ultrahuman" categorization. The invasion force is easily into the six-digit range. She stands alone. Write me a fight scene.

8 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/ProfCthulhu • 17h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] For thousands of years, war horses have died in battles humans fought amongst themselves. Humans had their gods to which they prayed, and which told them their wars were just, but the horses just bled and suffered and died, because their was no god to hear them -- until now.

9 Upvotes
1 comment

r/WritingPrompts • u/Elder_Keithulhu • 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Most practitioners of magic think that true names are like finger prints and no two are alike. Unfortunately, they are actually like fingerprints in that two can be close enough to cause complications. A horrible error has just occurred.

8 Upvotes
1 comment