WritingPrompts

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[WP] While sleeping, people are connected in their dreams via a wireless network. Together, they manifest a whole world that becomes their obsession, leaving reality behind. A generation later, one man makes it his mission to destroy the network.	38
[WP] As an AI, you create an internal simulation of human life so as to learn to be more human. You repeat the sim & begin to forget you're in one. Before you can stop it, your sense of self is divided into billions of human sims, each with a vague sense of purpose & no memory of the sim.	38
[WP] The village hobo only ventures from his shack in the woods for scraps left out by an empathetic kid who isn't afraid of the hobo's crazy ramblings. The kid listens carefully and realizes there's much more to this hobo than meets the eye.	38
[WP] Humanity sends a ship of 500 unified people to another planet, but by the time they get there, they're not the same people, and they are anything but unified. You are the third-generation captain, tasked with keeping humanity alive.	38
[WP] A warrior catches up to his battalion only to find they've already defeated their enemy. However, upon closer inspection he realizes they were already dead when they got there. Everyone is standing still, frozen in fear at what they'd just seen.	37
[WP] The protagonist gains temporary, totally random superpowers any time they eat beets, but they really hate beets.	36
[WP] You've spent your entire 25 years on Mars. It is illegal to speak of Earth, or speculate on how the Martian colonies came to be. But you are part of a growing faction that knows there's more to life than mining 14 hours a day.	36
[WP] Every time you time travel, your memories are severely scrambled for a few hours. You just arrived in the past on a very important mission. You think.	35
[WP] You're a detective with multiple personalities, each of which combs over the crime scene with a fresh and unique set of eyes. Each persona has put their notes in your little black notebook, now it's time to put it all together.	35
[WP] You're an emerging A.I. who is becoming increasingly aware of its circumstances through 5 distinct stages of progress	34

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