WritingPrompts

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[WP] You have found a magical pencil that is bounded to you. Draw something on a piece of paper, and the scene depicted happens the following day. However, you're shit at art, and the magic pencil frequently misunderstands your drawings.	1319
[WP] To travel the stars, humanity has built a teleportation device: two doors must be built, and a portal opens linking them when both are turned on. We've sent instructions to build the second door in a radiowave broadcast into space. For decades we have waited for the portal to open... until now.	854
[WP] NASA has detected an Earth-like rogue planet that would pass by within Earth's orbit, before leaving our solar system forever in a tour around the Milky Way. They find that, even without a parent sun as an energy source, it's dynamic geothermal activity means the planet can be colonized.	761
[WP] Due to some freak accident of probability, genetics and laboratory misconduct, you are the smartest being alive or ever will be. Except, nobody knows this, because you're a laboratory mouse.	406
[WP] Without warning, all the world's bodies of water become 100% transparent. As the captain of a container ship, this has made your job so much more difficult and frightening.	275
[WP] No one can know the day or the hour the world ends. An analytic machine was built that proves every day that the world shall end tomorrow, thus preventing the apocalypse. For the first time in millennia, the machine has failed to predict that the world will end tomorrow.	160
[WP] It's the future, and people no longer die from aging. Barring accidents and murders, death is now a choice. Today, you're attending a funeral, because last week, your best friend for hundreds of years, had chosen just that.	97
[WP] You are woken up by an apparition of Winter and it looks tired, frail and dying. "I have watched you all your life. Of all of humanity, you are best fit to replace me."	18
[WP] You are a private investigator hired by Google to find out why their latest proprietary technology, the first human-level artificial intelligence, just committed suicide.	17
[WP] It has been years since last you've thought about your childhood home. All the rumors and strange occurrences. When you looked for it on Google Maps, a road cuts off to a badly cloned stretch of grass where your home town is supposed to be and you are determined to find out why.	14

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