WritingPrompts

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[WP] Magical proficiency is determined by how much of your body has touched an element. The best fire mages have burns all over their body, the best water mages have nearly drowned themselves to get water in their lungs. You've just touched a silvery metal that gave you a strange burn.	54
[WP] An interstellar war that's been fought by drones for thousands of years grinds to halt when a mysterious cyberattack kills all AI. Now, rival alien civilizations are visiting primitive worlds, including Earth, in a desperate bid to recruit live soldiers for the first time in millennia.	51
[WP] In the far future, faster than light travel has allowed humanity to colonize the galaxy. But FTL communication isn't possible. Humanity is connected by a network of courier ships who bounce from system to system.	49
[WP] In a world where Icarus heeded his father's words, the two escaped their prison and founded Icaria, a grand city filled with engineering wonders and meritocratic leadership.	48
[WP] 100 years after the remote work revolution, every skyscraper is now a residential building, and homelessness has mostly ended. As millions of home spaces lie empty due to oversupply, you, a landlord, have a brilliant idea: What if people could work away from home?	41
[WP] In a fantasy land of kingdoms and all-pervasive magic, the almighty Dark Lord has conquered a great kingdom, having its ruler swear fealty to him. Under the Dark Lord's rule, education is at an all-time high, healthcare and life expectancy are tremendous, and discrimination is a distant memory.	40
[WP] Born in the future, you're only attracted to tall women, so you move to the Moon, where you marry a taller woman. Years later, the low gravity has made you taller than her. Write your /r/Relationships post. Commenters, help OP.	38
[WP] Humans aren't particularly great at magic, so when the high elf kingdom conquered them, they secretly built spacefaring ships and left the planet. A thousand years later, a fleet of human ships enters orbit, exploiting the fact that magic only works on the surface...	37
[WP] In the future, artificially intelligent life and human life are of equal value. A rogue firmware update begins destroying sapience in robots. You are the judge at the trial of the worst mass murderer in history, a single programmer who, accidentally or not, has killed 400 million "people."	35
[WP] You have 15 years' worth of library late fees across several cities. One day, you're visited by a librarian bounty hunter.	30

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