WritingPrompts

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[WP] You recently sent in a DNA sample to be tested. Now there's a large group of doctors on your doorstep, wanting to know how you're still alive.	39
[WP] "Of course, I had to change my career after that incident. After I had that dose of Empathy forcibly downloaded into my brain, it was impossible to continue... which is why such forced downloads are illegal, by the way."	34
[WP] The character is fourth-wall aware and has lost interest in the plot, wanting only to become a real person. Unfortunately, both the narrator and the author are very interested in making the original plot happen...	30
[WP] In a world full of superheroes, you are feared by both hero and villain alike for having a power that no-one else has: the power to tell a direct lie.	21
[WP] You're world-renowned as the greatest genius in every possible field, the most intelligent man since Da Vinci. Your secret is that you're just average - when you're asked a question, you simply reply with a random statement. You've never been wrong yet.	20
[WP] You are a 'luck racer' - the faster you go, the luckier you get, but the moment you stop your karma balances out. You're busy testing the first FTL spaceship.	20
[WP] Every generation has a villain, and a Chosen One to quest to stop their nefarious plans. The generation, the villain got started a bit late; the Chosen One is a 90-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair...	10
[WP] There's a switch on your car's dashboard that you've never touched. One day, curious, you flick it. Wings extend from your car doors, the anti-grav drive kicks in, the wheels folding away, and a voice says "Starship Mode Activated".	9
[WP] You often comment, out loud, on a story while you are reading it - highlighting known tropes, complaining at the protagonist when he's an idiot, and so on. But this time, one of the characters in the story starts reacting to what you say, as if she can hear you...	8
[WP] "Wait - are you telling me you've never seen the little people on everyone's shoulders, urging them to good end evil? But - you have them on your shoulders right now! How can you not know they're there?"	7

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