WritingPrompts

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[WP] You're a prolific serial killer. After careful study, the FBI created your profile: you're extremely intelligent, meticulous bordering on OCD, attractive, have a good job. Thing is, you're none of these. You're dumb as a rock. You just keep getting lucky.	570
[WP] You're a quiet, law-abiding citizen who recently moved to a new city. Thanks to a long series of coincidences, the local mafia are absolutely convinced that you're an untouchable kingpin.	269
[CW] Write two versions of the same story told from two points of view. In the first version, both the protagonist and antagonist are very likeable characters. In the second version, both the protagonist and antagonist are very unlikeable characters.	55
[WP] You've somehow become an expert assassin's next target. Despite their best efforts, you obliviously go about your daily routine.	46
[WP] To graduate wizard school, students must develop a new incantation and then present it during a formal thesis defense. After years of preparation your time has come. But you sneeze while casting your new spell. What resulted was...unexpected.	34
[WP] You're just an average Joe with a normal 9-5 job. Absolutely nothing about you is remarkable in any way. Except, for some reason, no matter where you are, every day you seem to get thrown through a glass window or door.	23
[WP] The first night after moving into your first house, you heard a cabinet door slam shut upstairs. Jokingly, you called out "I don't mind if you live here but please make yourself useful." Who knew ghosts made excellent investment advisors?	22
[WP] On the galactic stage, wars are not fought using guns. They're fought with bombs. F-bombs to be precise. Insults are the most powerful weapon known. Tell the story about how humanity came to be feared across the galaxy.	18
[WP] The military finds itself woefully outmatched against aliens. As ships approach your city, the crazy old man down the street aims the lid of his BBQ grill at the sky unleashing a blinding streak of light towards the ships. You thought you heard him chuckle "Payback's a bitch!"	13
[CW] Write a story that makes sense if one reads the paragraphs in forward or reverse order. Extra difficulty: When read in reverse order, the reader comes away with the opposite opinion of the events (protagonist becomes antagonist, etc)	11

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