/u/Inoox's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are 1 of 365 engineers on a 400 year long space voyage aboard a passenger ship. You are woken from cryosleep once a year to maintain the ship, after a few years you realise some of the engineers are missing, with more vanishing every year.
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[WP] You're having a heated argument with your partner over text messages. You send a response and turn the tv on to reveal the news, there has been a car crash an hour ago not too far away. The face of the first victim comes on screen, its your partner. Your phone lights up.
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[WP] You grew up in a house with a garden, in that garden is a tree. For years you and the tree have spoken, it has given you sage wisdom throughout your life. Today it tells you it is dying, and is ready to share its own life stories with you.
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[WP] You are part of a gang in the middle of robbing a high security bank when the 'zombie' apocalypse happens. A virus that turns everyone into relentless cannibals. The bank is put into lockdown and everyone is counting on you to keep them safe. Only problem is, you only have 1 real gun.
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[WP] He sharpened his sword. His father had been a fair ruler for decades now, a weakness many of his enemies had exploited. He thought his father to be pathetic, a new ruler must be in power. He approached his father's throne, sword and grin drawn. Oh, he just couldn't wait to be king.
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[WP] You're fairly deep into your own fairy tale adventure when you happenstance into someone else's. The more you delve into your own fairy tale, you realise the two fairy tales are more connected than you originally thought.
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[WP] Your housemate never talks to you and comes back every evening whistling the same tune. You watch the evening news and the main headline is about a new serial killer 'the whistle blower' who kills people after recording their deepest secret while singing the same tune.
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[WP] Write an epic battle scene. Choose your own setting and theme. Examples: Alien invasion, human invasion, terrorist attack, robot uprising, space battle, medieval battle, future battle e.t.c.
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[WP] You wake up one day to discover the floor in your room is lava, you look out your window and the floor is lava everywhere. Nothing but humans seem to be affected by it, your mum rings you in distress and you must go rescue her. Its a good thing youre a past 'The floor is lava' world champion.
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