WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your ancestor the king had the witch bricked up alive in the dungeons, and for years local legend said you could hear her scratching on the walls at night. Now the walls have been torn down, and for the first time people can see what she wrote...	443
[PM] Give me a thought-provoking question to build a story around (inspired by Planescape: Torment's "What can change the nature of a man?")	237
[WP] An heir who would grow to be as gifted in magic as his father - so the soothsayer promised the king. But the child was born crippled and worse: female. Replaced with a changeling of low birth to the knowledge of only a few, the broken princess was not expected to survive. She did.	190
[WP] You haven't seen your childhood best friend in over a decade, but, honoring a promise you made as kids, you are waiting on London Bridge on All Souls' Day 2021. To your surprise a group of people you've never met are already there, claiming to be honoring the same promise to the same person.	160
[WP] "Would you change any of it?" she asked, greying head against his chest. "Not a single moment," he replied, and held her close under the burning sky.	109
[WP] Once a generation a child finds the door to the Magical Kingdom, where their boundless imagination gives them power over the very fabric of that world. Stepping through the door you realize that (A) the last kid to come through had some serious issues, and (B) they never left.	89
[WP] In a world where all magic requires a spell to be spoken aloud, being born mute should have left you powerless. When you manage to conjure fire simply by signing it threatens the entire established order of things...	73
[WP] Your father was never around, but he sent a birthday card every year. You often wondered why a man people described as dangerously intelligent had such awful spelling - always inserting extra letters in words. Then, with your 18th birthday card, you receive the cipher...	70
[WP] The creepy time-traveling scientist had spent weeks plucking famous women from different eras of the past to create his perfect harem. He was not prepared for what happened when they teamed up against him...	47
[WP] Coming up: the 5 remaining girls head to the beach house at Innsmouth. They've all got brains. They've all got beauty. But who among them has that special something worthy of representing the nation as an offering to Lord Cthulhu? Join us for the next exciting episode of ABC's 'The Sacrifice'	43

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