WritingPrompts

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[CW] Choose a famous first sentence from fiction and write a story that goes in a different direction than the original work	16
[WP] A hero(ine)'s epic journey goes astray when they suffer a career-ending injury during an unsafe training montage.	10
[WP] A case hinges on something witnessed only by a dead person. To illustrate how ludicrous this is, one side subpoenas the dead person. The dead person shows up and testifies.	8
[WP] All your life you've harbored a dark secret from those around you, but you're beginning to suspect you're actually the normal one.	8
[TT] Japanese fishermen blown off course land in Mexico, and return home with tales of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. A Daimyo sends an embassy, which arrives at the same time as Cortez.	7
[TT] [WP] Above your armchair stood a painting of a tall dark man by a tree. Today, the painting shows only a tree, and in your armchair sits a tall dark man...	7
[EU] Write an episode of Eléschoo, an outlandish but popular cartoon that depicts children engaging in education to prepare them for adulthood, rather than traveling the world catching Pokémon.	6
[WP] Yesterday, you were 15. Today, you are still 15, but because your future self sent their mind back in time to re-live their youth starting at age 15, you now live in the future, in your older self's body, with no memory of the intervening years.	6
[WP] Tell a story by re-telling the same memory as it is remembered differently at different times, with different meanings and significance.	6
[WP] Write a story that breaks this law: " An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic."	5

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